Long live the factory! (2026)

1h 20min | Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina | documentary | 2026
Director: Marko Nikolic
DOP: Obrad Kokotovic
Editior: Aleksandar Juric and Sasa Karakas Sikanic
Sound designer: Milos Drobnjakovic
Composer: Janja Loncar
Produced by: TALAS FILM, DIDASKALIJA, STANKOVIC & SINOVI
Producer: Nebojsa Miljkovic
Coproducers: Nikola Djakovic, Marko Stankovic
Supported by:
FILM CENTER SERBIA
AUDIO VIZUELNI CENTAR REPUBLIKE SRPSKE
“Long live the factory! ” is a documentary about a former giant of the Yugoslav chemical industry and the memories left behind by its workers. A recently uncovered archive - containing tens of thousands of slides and negatives - opens a passage into a vanished world. Through photographs and personal testimonies, Aleksandar Kostić, a member of a younger generation, explores the fragile line between lived reality and collective nostalgia, seeking to understand why the factory continues to endure in memory - as myth, trauma, or a lost utopia.
