01/02/2026
As a part of the Yugoslav Black wave screening, rare films is extremely glad to publish a monographic issue on this unforgettable movement.
YBW monographic issue: 'Black Wave'- a term initially meant to condemn, ended up defining one of the most gritty, groundbreaking and transgressive currents in European cinema. Emerging out of the unique, non-aligned socialism of 60's Yugoslavia, a generation of filmmakers grabbed their cameras not to glorify the past but to anatomize the unsettled present. In this issue, we have tried to explore that rebellious and fiercely polemical film movement that used dark humor, radical ideologies and unflinching realism to confront political myths before being silenced by the state in the early 70's. Many of the most acclaimed films have been dissected and re-evaluated in a newer, broader context to understand the movement. The primary inspiration behind this issue, however, was to look at the movement's enduring legacy: how these once suppressed films have been reclaimed as classics, inspiring new generations of artists from all over the world. This is the story of art that dared to question it's own origins.
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