The first Budva Video Art Festival's theme is contemporary nomadism and a glimpse into a new reality. Films chosen for selection have in common a certain sense of wandering, artistic pilgrimage. Works showcased at the first edition are in search of a certain cinematic language and common ground in times of crises. An attempt to observe and describe the rapidly changing context we are placed in as artists and spectators.

Featuring:

Evgeny Granilshchikov
“Artist’s Film”, 2025, 29 min.
Like one of the characters in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the character in the film is an artist who wanders through the empty village and listens to voice messages sent by his friend, a well-known journalist from The New York Times. From these monologues, we learn that both of them left their country and are now living in exile in different parts of the world. They don't know if they will ever come to see each.

Vladilen Vierny
“Exil”, 2013, 16 min.
A young African migrant's first couple of hours on a European beach.

Stanislav Dorochenkov
“Iliazd”, 2023, 91 min.
It occurred to me that the cruellest thing that the film inflicted on us was immortality. In October 2021, in Saint-Petersburg, the city becomes a theatre for intimacy, and the thoughts become music. It was a good moment to think of death. Death looked like a world without words. Something pure, made invisible by its absoluteness.

Fedor Koptsev
“Can You Be Real”, 2025, 9 min.
We have all been hearing stories about ghosts. What if they are still alive and still living in places where we are afraid to go? This film is about one of these ghosts. She is alone and forgotten, but wants to be heard, to find her identity and establish a connection, but can’t reach anyone who visits the place she calls home. All that remains for her is to wander there, look at the views that are already boring, and gradually die from the fact that she was forgotten and left there.

Ruth Kazanovich, Miroslav Churin
“The Original Sin”, 2025, 5 min.
When a person is left alone in a room, with nothing there but their consciousness, their desires gain power. In the silence, their thoughts amplify, leading them into the depths of their mind. Every wish, fear, and regret surfaces, trying to break free. The mind becomes both a sanctuary and a battleground, where inner conflicts grow stronger and unresolved dreams haunt. Investigate the boundaries of the human temper; watch how our own desires destroy us little by little. Follow us on this absurd yet sincere journey. (There is no end).

Yasha Vetkine
“Le syndrome de la page blanche”, 2025, 10 min.
The fear of a blank page is a basic challenge for every artist facing a personal crisis. To overcome this, the artist must be in a constant search for a visual language that can reflect on a changing reality. Art is necessary to revive our perception and to reset our vision.