“A rare totally authentic, no nonsense documentary etude of the highest order about a young, self-destructive graffiti artists living in the streets of Belgrade, homeless, but never hungry; there is a heartbreaking thing or two to be learned about eating food from garbage containers and telling it with disarming honesty and yes, even charm, straight to the camera. Not to be missed!” - curator of SEE Festival LA

“Bojan (aka RAPRESENT) is an orphan in his late teens living on the streets of Belgrade. Graffiti art and hip hop present for him a means of escape from the harsh reality of homelessness and drug addiction that has become his life. He tells us his story over the discarded leftovers of a child’s birthday cake that he finds in a dumpster. Over the course of the film, this small gesture grows into something symbolic, namely a symbolic picture of lost childhood; not just Bojan’s, but of a generation that grew up in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars. Bojan died of a heroin overdose six months after the film was made. He was just 21 years old.The film is a memorial to Bojan Radanov and his generation as well as a testament to the soul’s yearning for a better life even in the midst of societal apathy, abandonment, and crippling addiction. “Rapresent” is Bojan’s story, told his way, and in the end is the heartbreaking record of a life cut too short too soon.”

Bojan RAPRESENT (29.05.1988-11.06.2009)

RESPECT RST

Major screenings:

• Premiere at London International Documentary Film Festival LIDF
• Rotterdam Film Festival
• South Easter European Film Festival, LA
• NXNE Film @ Music Festival, Toronto
• International Woman’s Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
• Canary Wharf Film Festival, London , UK

Awards:

• BEST STORY FILM award from audience at FILM FOR PEACE Festival, Italy
• Best National Award at XVIII International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrade Serbia

Other Festivals:

THESS SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Greece; Uno Port Art Films Festival, Japan; A Film for Peace Festival, Italy; Gottingen Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany;WordFilm Festival, Tartu, Estonia ; Kratki Metar Festival, Belgrade, Serbia; Astra Festival, Sibiu, Rumunia; Kino Kriterion, Sarajevo, Bosnia;Balkan Festival, Moscow, Russia;Canary Wharf Film FEstival, London , UK; Balkan Snapshots Festival, Amsterdam