The furniture that has resided in the building since the 1970s is stacked and waiting to be removed. Triangles and squares of wood and metal, the modular elements of floors and ceilings, are resisting as they are being torn out. The congress building Sava Centar embodied a vision of the future for the international, Non-Aligned, socialist Yugoslavia. After the country broke apart, this modernist landmark of New Belgrade was neglected by the state and, over decades, grew increasingly run down. In 2020, it was privatised, and two years later, its reconstruction followed. Like many of the younger workers, Nenad is in Sava Centar for the first time, detached from its past and the society that built it.
Ivan Marković
Serbian visual artist and filmmaker living in Berlin. His feature and documentary films were shown in festivals including Berlinale, Doclisboa, Viennale, New Horizons, Mar del Plata, and Jeonju IFF.
Jelena Radenković
Belgrade-based producer and FDU graduate, has over a decade of experience in film and TV. She was an executive producer for Celts (Berlinale 2021), Centar (2018), and Inventory (2025), and is currently producing Milica Tomović’s feature Big Women, Tale of the Plum by Milica Djenic, and the docu-fiction Promised Spaces by Ivan Marković.
A while ago, I found myself in my rented room, repacking my belongings and preparing to go home, while quietly sorting through the things that no longer served a purpose. One by one, I put things into boxes—either to throw away or to keep. As I stared at the corner of the room that felt…
