about us
FILMKRAFTWERK is a production company from Berlin, focused on producing high-quality documentary and fiction films. Beside documentaries (short and feature) FILMKRAFTWERK produces shorts, experimental films and multimedia performances. FILMKRAFTWERK gathers a team of talented people with large experience in filmmaking. We are working in Germany and Serbia.
Magnetic Memories
feature documentary in development
original title: Magnetna sećanja
When Željko Felbar began filming his life, he only wanted to preserve memories—but over decades, his camera shaped a collective memory: a silent archive of war, change, and the power of images.
The House
feature fiction in postproduction
original title: Kuća
production: Talas film, Serbia, 4Film, Croatia, FilmKraftwerk, Germany
After the heart attack, Jovan, a retired architect of Serbian origin who spent most of his life in Germany, refuses to give in to his daughter's pressure to spend the rest of his life in a nursing home. With his grandson Nikola, who has Asperger's syndrome and is living without social contacts, he travels to his homeland, a village in Serbia, to sell the family land, but becomes a part of a local population rebellion against the construction mafia that threatens to destroy everything what is left of his homeland
Cast: Miralem Zubčević, David Stanču, Jelena Bosanac, Anica Dobra, Sanja Vejnović, Nika Rozman, Zoran Živković, Milan Nakov, Aleksandar Aleksić, Danica Mitić, Mihajlo Miljković
Screenplay: Tanja Brzaković, Hajdana Baletić
DoP: Aleksandar Sergio Kalezić
Sound: Miloš Drobnjaković
Photos: Boško Đorđević
Production Design: Slobodanka Pilić
Costum Design: Ljiljana Petrović
Make up: Katarina Milojević
Producer: Nebojša Miljković Co-producers: Anita Juka, Tanja Brzaković
Production supported by FCS, HAVC, BKM
If...
short experimental
A young woman starts a journey that she didn't plan, but this might be exactly what she needs to confront all of What-ifs in her life.
Production year 2022
Lenght: 12 Minutes
Directed by: Tanja Brzakovic
Authors: Jelena Bosanac, Tanja Brzakovic
Cast: Jelena Bosanac, Seka Berlinerka
Sound design: Ilija Djordjevic
Festivals: Berlin Revolution, Höga Kusten Film Festival, Kraljevski Film Festival, Videopark Festival, Sound and Music Film Festival
HOME
short experimental
The thousand-yard stare drifts away into the unknown to search for the meaning.” During a quarantine days, seems like universal feeling- search for the meaning. The meaning that perhaps could be found in the memories. The memories of home, from the new home, in the moment when the world is standing still... or maybe it moves rapidly? It travels home. Milan, Berlin, Belgrade or any other place called “home”.
Production year: 2020
Lenght: 5 Minutes
Directed by; Tanja Brzaković, Jelena Bosanac
Text by: Milkica Stanković
Music by: Miša Cvijović Gerhard
Premiere at Corona Short Film Festival, Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, European film festival Palic, Festival filmskih autorki, Mister Worky, Martovski, Agrinio Int. film festival, One take film festival
MikroFAF Award best regional “Can you breath"
God’s Will
short fiction
It is 2004. Formally, the wars in Yugoslavia ended four years ago, but numerous war criminals remain free from prosecution, hiding among the people of the splintered country.
The population is divided between those who regard war criminals as national heroes, guardians of Serbian religion and tradition, and the majority who want to see the criminals punished for their deeds, as international law demands.
The sisterhood of the Saint Nino monastery, surrounded by nature and imbued with faith and peace, lives an isolated existence, far away from the world and politics, but not far enough from human challenges and moral dilemmas.
As four nuns set out from Saint Nino to collect berries, they are confronted by the greatest examination of their spiritual lives: they must decide what to do with the war criminal they find injured in the woods.
Animosities, rivalry, but also friendship and love for one cat, will play a decisive part in sealing the criminal’s fate.
Production year: 2019
Lenght: 20 Minutes
Cast: Ana Bauk, Jovana Božić, Jelena Bosanac, Tinja Došen Kalezić, Vladimir Tešović
Director: Tanja Brzakovic
DOP: Aleksandar Kalezić
Composer: Janja Lončar
Sound recordist: Mladen Marjanović
Sound designer: Miloš Drobnjaković
Producer: Jelena Bosanac
Festivals: 17ème Festival du Court-Métrage Méditerranéen de Tanger, Marocco
Popoli e Religioni, Terni, Italy, Mecal Film Festival; Barcelona, SEE Fest South East European Film Festival Los Angeles, Galichnik Film Festival, Macedonia, Brest Film Festival, France, Buzz IFF, Romania, Dona y Cine, Valencia, WIFFEN Nigera
Awards at Festivals: Religion Today, Trento, Sedicicorto, Forli, Byzan Fest, San Petersburg Int. film festival,Makedonska 21, Women Filmmakers Festival Izmir
The Way to Hollywood
short documentary
„Money makes the studies go ´round”. Jelena has six months until hermaster studies begin and 10 000€ separates her from that beginning. In the new environment – German village on far east of the country and new roles- Au-pair, between taking care of three children, taking lessons of German language, playing clown at children’s birthdays, being homesick and talking with the only inhabitant who understands her in the new environment, months are passing and her bank account is still standing still. Trapped, like Sisyphus, she makes one last try to roll the rock on top of the hill, before she loses her chance at the studies.
Believing in people’s help, but not wanting their charity, Jelena designs unique cards.
By selling them, she believes she’ll get to her goal and earn necessary money= Visa= studies= Balkan escape
Production year: 2020
Lenght: 25 Minutes
Author: Jelena Bosanac
Music: Slobodan Jerković
Premiere at Film Festival Srpski Holiwood
Womens Filmmakers Film Festival Izmir, Festival filmskih autorki Novi Sad, Filmovi na stiklama, Belgrade, Mother tongues, Dublin
MOLDING A DREAM
experimental
“Molding a dream” is a work about unconscious, our subconsciousness and our try to influence dreaming, while at the same time being involved as a partaker. The connection between space and a human being trapped in that space with a constant need for movement and further going, until eventually human breaks the frame and leaves the spectator alone in that space. Does this mean that the partaker of the dream is awaken and therefore not present? “Who looks outside -dreams, who looks inside -awakes.” Where do you choose to look?
Author: Jelena Bosanac
Camera: Tanja Brzaković
Music: Janja Lončar
JELENAS WORLD
feature documentary
Exclusive journey through and into the world of professional tennis, with number 1 woman player in the world – Jelena Jankovic. An intimate story of the fighter.
Coproduction with Talas film, Serbia
Director: Tanja Brzakovic
DOP: Miona Bogovic, Kathleen Herbst
Composer: Janja Loncar
Sound designers: Vladimir Zivkovic, Vladimir Uspenski
Producers: Nebojsa Miljkovic, Tanja Brzakovic
´ROUND MIDNIGHT
middle lenght fiction
That evening supposed to be fun. Five of them wanted to celebrate Roberts birthday; they wanted to go to the house where they first met 12 years ago and remember the best years of their live’s... Many things happened there that weren’t supposed to.
Michael still “lives” in that house and knows Julia, Peter and Thomas from the moment they moved in. On this evening the friends will meet him again and that will change all of their lives, because, well because - Michael is last 6 years ... dead.
Cast: Peter Knaack, Katharina Lorenz, Julia Berke, Tim Porath, Thomas Wodianka
Director: Tanja Brzakovic
DOP: Kathleen Herbst
Composer: Janja Loncar
Sound designers: Vladimir Zivkovic, Vladimir Uspenski
Producers: Tanja Brzakovic, Kathleen Herbst
Meet our team
Jelena Bosanac
Actress, Producer, Filmmaker
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