Directed by APredrag Todorović
Between Serbian uprisings and world wars, peasant craftsmen along the Ibar and Drina Rivers found time to carve figures into soft stone hewn from the mountains between Belgrade and Sarajevo. The primitive figures adorned grave markers that stood watch in the cemeteries of Western Serbia. This wordless documentary directed by Predrag Todorovic presents a sandstone narrative – a ‘carved archive’ – of ordinary individuals in an extraordinary landscape. The Kymata Film Festival called Tree Crown “a poetic reflection on legacy, craftsmanship, and the forgotten lives of a people who were only granted biographies after death. A haunting visual meditation on memory and resistance through raw material and raw emotion.”
Predrag Todorovic (1976) has worked for 25 years in media production as a director, editor and producer. In collaboration with his colleagues Sladjan Bogdanovic, Zlatko Djurdjevic and Marko Mirkovic, he is the author of numerous award-winning documentaries that have been shown on television and in theatres. Tree Crown has been featured in around 40 film festivals in Europe, Asia, and the Americas and has won numerous awards, including prizes for Best Documentary, Best Director andBest Sound, as well as an award for ‘Audience Favorite’ from the Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival.
