Another Spring
- Directed by: Mladen Kovačević
- Released: 2024 (educational)
- Year of Production: 2023
The eradication of smallpox represents one of modern medicine’s greatest triumphs, but it wasn’t so long ago that this treacherous, highly contagious disease killed millions of people each year. In 1972 a now little known chapter in the history of smallpox played out in Yugoslavia during what would be Europe’s last smallpox epidemic. This gripping archival documentary, aptly described by its creators as a medical thriller, reconstructs the dramatic events of those spring months, when Yugoslavia expended almost inconceivable efforts in order to contain the rapidly spreading danger. Anyone fascinated by history will find it difficult not to draw comparisons with the worldwide events of the past two years.
World Premiere: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022 - Proxima Competition, Festival dei Popoli 2022, IFFR Harbour 2022, Sevilla European Film Festival 2022, L’Alternativa 2022, Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb 2022
Mladen KOVAČEVIĆ (1979, Serbia) studied fiction-film directing in London and Cape Town, and has dedicated himself to documentaries in recent years. His poeticism is rooted in the simplicity of realism; his films explore various styles with idiosyncratic dramatic structures. He has won numerous awards, including The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at Sarajevo Film Festival for Merry Christmas, Yiwu(2020) and the Best Documentary Award at Ibiza Cine Fest for 4 Years in 10 Minutes (2018). His films have screened at Visions du Réel, IDFA, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX and FIDMarseille.
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