The loudest silence
Directed and written by: Aleksandar Reljić
Cinematography: Mirko Todorović
Editing: Ivana Pejak
Music: Mihajlo Obrenov
Producer: Aleksandar Reljić
Production: Core Dox, Al Jazeera Balkans
Festivals: Zagrebdox
Students in Serbia, who have blocked all universities in the country, did not celebrate the New Year’s Eve but entered 2025 with a 15-minute silence in memory of the victims of the tragedy at the Novi Sad railway station, when a canopy collapsed on November 1, 2024, killing 15 people. The students have taken the lead in the fight against corruption, which they consider the cause of this tragedy, and are demanding that institutions begin to function and do their job.
Aleksandar Reljic is a filmmaker, producer and director of dozens of documentaries mostly dealing with the culture of remembrance, xenophobia, war crimes, human rights violations etc. In 2019, he founded an independent film production company called “Core Dox” from Novi Sad/Serbia and produced and directed four documentaries “Sandzak Process”, “No Pardon”, “Mamula All Inclusive” and “Novi Sad Remembrance” which won several awards. He was an editor in chief of the Documentary Educational Department in a public broadcaster – Radio Television of Vojvodina (2015-17). His feature length documentary film “Enkel” won a few regional and international awards and was nominated for the Best Documentary of the Year 2018 at Prix Europa Berlin/Potsdam.