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Thursday, February 26, 2026
Serbian Filmmakers Call Out "State Censorship" in Open Letter
www.hollywoodreporter.com: Serbia’s leading film guilds and professional associations have issued an urgent appeal to the international film community, warning that the country’s cinema sector is facing what they describe as a “complete institutional blockade.”
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DogBlog
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I think it's absolutely incredible that Siberian filmmakers are standing up for the censorship they are facing and calling out their government for censoring their work and refusing to fund it. I think the coming together of so many different filmmaking institutions within Siberia can act as a really important lesson for what we are currently going through in the United States. will not face censorship to the same extent we are seeing a lean towards censorship especially in public broadcasting. I think we as a country need to come together and publicly oppose the censorship from the Trump Administration and from the Federal Communications Commission. The arts are very often the first thing targeted when a government is trying to enact total control over its population and calling that censorship out is essential to retaining some semblance of resistance. I hope that Serbian filmmakers are able to continue to fight for their intellectual and artistic freedoms as well as stay safe while doing so.
Just another amazing representation of what art can do for all of us. Film has so much power in it's messaging and so does every other form of art. It's seriously important that we continue to make it despite censorship. Serbia has been a country that has been under war and conflict and censorship for decades now, and the majority of the reason that we know so much about the conflict. Is because of artists and their work. I went to an arts camp over the summer, and one of our teachers was from the Baltic nations, and she had spent the the majority of her work. Documenting the war and conflict of the region. It really just goes to show just how powerful some of these forms of art can be. Not only in spreading messages but also just a form of showing. Demonstrating what the suffering that is going on in the world.
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I think it's absolutely incredible that Siberian filmmakers are standing up for the censorship they are facing and calling out their government for censoring their work and refusing to fund it. I think the coming together of so many different filmmaking institutions within Siberia can act as a really important lesson for what we are currently going through in the United States. will not face censorship to the same extent we are seeing a lean towards censorship especially in public broadcasting. I think we as a country need to come together and publicly oppose the censorship from the Trump Administration and from the Federal Communications Commission. The arts are very often the first thing targeted when a government is trying to enact total control over its population and calling that censorship out is essential to retaining some semblance of resistance. I hope that Serbian filmmakers are able to continue to fight for their intellectual and artistic freedoms as well as stay safe while doing so.
Just another amazing representation of what art can do for all of us. Film has so much power in it's messaging and so does every other form of art. It's seriously important that we continue to make it despite censorship. Serbia has been a country that has been under war and conflict and censorship for decades now, and the majority of the reason that we know so much about the conflict. Is because of artists and their work. I went to an arts camp over the summer, and one of our teachers was from the Baltic nations, and she had spent the the majority of her work. Documenting the war and conflict of the region. It really just goes to show just how powerful some of these forms of art can be. Not only in spreading messages but also just a form of showing. Demonstrating what the suffering that is going on in the world.
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