Who has the right to remember?

A short film by the Physical Theater Company Side Effect. Memories of war, told through softness, melancholy and tenderness. 

Premiere: 07.06.2025, 21h, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik

Who has the right to remember? 

How do our reflections connect us? 

The body is a living memorial. 

Of collective memory. Of moving memory. 

Yugoslavia, the place where reminiscences collide.

Wars. 

Being disturbed is an unavoidable part of the recollection process and coming together. Is disturbance what we tend to avoid while remembering? Soft, tender, nurturing spaces. For silence. For listening. For witnessing. Raw. Entropic. Multilayered. Horrendous. Painful. Spaces of softness and care, for memories to take a rest. 

 “I will listen, 

  I will hold your hand,

  We can cry,

  We can sing Sevdah,

  While remembering,

  While breathing,

  While taking a rest in the midst of grief.”

Direction, concept and editing: Danilo Jovanović

Actress: Nataša Mackuljak

Text: Bojan Krivokapić

Set design: Yasemin Duru

Costume design: Maurício Ianês

Camera:  Ipek Hamzaoğlu

Music: Nedim Zlatar

Light design: Yasemin Duru

Sound design: Mataz Al Kerdy

Photography: Luiz Lima

Visual identity: Vanja Lazić

Executive producer: Danilo Jovanović

The Film is made in BCS language with English subtitles.

This film is produced by the Physical Theater Company Side Effect as part of the project “Who has the right to remember?”. The project is realized in cooperation with the Kulturhaus Brotfabrik and funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA7).