Aleksandar Žikić

The story of influential rock band from Belgrade.

A documentary about Novi Sad’s rock band Boye, which in the early 80s gave life to female spirit in Yugoslavia’s r’n’r music, fully aware of the type of music they chose, managed to position themselves on, up to then exclusively “male” scene and forced themselves as the original occurrences.

A slang-filled urban comedy involving a group of youths who call their friends over the telephone to chit-chat and spread gossip.

Croatia Records, as the publishing house that published the largest number of new wave releases, is celebrating 40 years of new wave this year. The anniversary is accompanied by many interesting releases and reissues, and the focus is on four vinyls, pearls of the new wave: the first albums of Električni orgazam and Haustor, the only album of Šarlo akrobata and the "Paket aranžman" compilation, which was responsible for the flourishing of the new wave in the former Yugoslavia. In cooperation with CMC television, a documentary film was filmed with a large number of relevant interlocutors, about one of the most brilliant musical periods in the history of the region.

By definition, punk is a subculture, alternative culture and youth culture based on the interaction of cultural elements different from the elements of popular culture and other sub-genres.It has its own distinctive music, ideology, dress code, visual identity, dance, literature and film. Punks are mostly young people with a different opinion, who in common have the spirit of anti-establishment and non-recognition of the canon. As a musical direction, it existed in full swing in the 70s and 80s of the last century, exerting an influence on the rock scene of that time. How did appear in ex-Yugoslavia? What were the "hotspots"? Did he pose a danger to the state and socio-economic system of that time? Can one see punk as a way of life?