The new film repertoire of the Tuškanac Summer Stage

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August on the Tuškanac Summer Stage brings screenings of new films, a reminder of the classics we loved to watch and a reminder of the films that marked the year, among which we single out Rose Glass's Love and Bloodshed, Alice Rorwacher's Chimera and the preview of the sensation from Cannes: Coralie Fargeat's Substance with Demi Moore

Indie and festival hits in the forest

Film in the Forest is the August program of the Augusto Cesarco Center for Culture and Film, which during the next six weeks will present a number of intriguing works that marked the film season on the Tuškanac Summer Stage. The selection of films includes current and pre-premiere titles, blockbusters that we saw at the beginning of the year and classics that made us fall in love with the seventh art. Many films are there to entertain the audience, some to stimulate thinking, and occasionally take them out of their comfort zone.

Among the premiere titles, two hits from this year's Sundance Film Festival stand out. Love and Bloodshed is a sexy neo film noir directed by Rose Glass about a forbidden romance set in the world of bodybuilding, starring Kristen Stewart and Anna Baryshnikov. Veni vidi vici is a black comedy by Julia Niemann and Daniel Hoesl, whose satirical humor is directed against the privileged powerful, and which has not stopped causing controversy since its premiere at Sundance.

There's Always Tomorrow by director and actress Paola Cortellesi is a sharp and devastating analysis of the patriarchy in Rome in the 1940s, which beat even American blockbusters in Italian cinemas due to its intriguing theme and bittersweet humor. Joan Baez: I'm Loud also tells the story of a charismatic woman – the musician of the title, who changed the musical and cultural landscape of America over the course of 60 years with her engaging lyrics.

Fans of big-budget Hollywood blockbusters can enjoy Twister 2 , the sequel to the disaster adventure film about hurricane hunters starring the charismatic Glen Powell, and Take Me to the Moon , a screwball comedy with Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson about romance set against the backdrop of the 1960s space race. On the other hand, anyone who missed Justina Triet's Oscar- and Palme d'Or-winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall and Luca Guadagnino's sexy sports romance The Challengers with Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist will be able to catch up in the weeks ahead.

Regional titles: Love and fireworks on asphalt and karst

On the Tuškanac Summer Stage, we will also watch premieres of regional films. One of them is Živi i zdari , a comedy by Montenegrin director Ivan Marinović, about a girl who decides the night before her wedding that she doesn't want to get married. It is a fun combination of (anti)romantic comedy and criticism of conservative social customs, which entertains with a series of explosively humorous situations and coordinated acting performances by the entire team, among which Tihana Lazović Trifunović, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov and Goran Bogdan stand out.

There is also Sunce mamino by Kosta Đorđević, a coming-of-age comedy set on the hot concrete of the Belgrade suburbs, following a resourceful young man who will try to do everything in order not to win the girl he is in love with. The main roles were excellently played by Pavle Čemerikić and Branka Katić, and the aromatic summer soundtrack is signed by Filip Mitović and Nipplepeople.

Previews from Cannes: Chimera and Substance

Along with the new titles, don't miss the pre-premiere screenings of the films that marked the Cannes Film Festival. On the schedule is Chimera , a masterpiece by Italian director Alice Rorwacher – a modern story about a modern-day Orpheus, through which it introduces viewers to the peculiar world of robbers of Etruscan tombs in Tuscany, while also functioning as a peculiar meditation on transience, class relations and love. At the recently concluded Pula Film Festival, Himera won the Cinema Network Award.

Supstanca , one of the sensations of this year's Cannes Film Festival, will also be previewed. The story of an actress who, for her 50th birthday, begins consuming a drug that will release her "younger, better and more perfect version" is an inspiredly directed, entertaining and grotesque satire on contemporary Hollywood, especially the way in which women are treated. Critics praised the bold, self-deprecating performance of Demi Moore in the comeback role, as well as the playful direction of Coralie Fargeat, who is not afraid to take the viewer far outside the comfort zone. The substance was also one of the favorites for the Golden Palm, and it was finally awarded for the best screenplay.

Both films go into regular distribution in the fall…