Avangardinovci
Cinemahall Revival
Cinemahall Revival
AVANGARDINOVCI
Cinemahall Revival
Cinemahall Revival
Restoring The Cinema Hall Gardinovci
In a small village in Serbia, there is a cinema.
Built in 1961, it was once a place where people gathered, laughed, argued, and
experienced stories toget her.
For more than 30 years — it has been silent.
Now, we are bringing it back to life, not just as a cinema, but as a place where people can feel, think, and connect again.
Built in 1961, it was once a place where people gathered, laughed, argued, and
experienced stories toget her.
For more than 30 years — it has been silent.
Now, we are bringing it back to life, not just as a cinema, but as a place where people can feel, think, and connect again.
NOW we are Crowdfunding
We are living in a time of isolation.
People are more connected than ever — but feel more alone than ever.
Villages are losing cultural life.
Cities are overwhelming artists and pushing them into survival mode.
Something is breaking between us.
We believe this cinema can be part of the answer.
People are more connected than ever — but feel more alone than ever.
Villages are losing cultural life.
Cities are overwhelming artists and pushing them into survival mode.
Something is breaking between us.
We believe this cinema can be part of the answer.
We are restoring the Gardinovci Cinema Hall into:
- a community cinema
- a space for children and youth
- a home for artists from around the world
- a place for dialogue, learning, and exchange
- kids will watch films and ask questions
- teenagers will create their own films
- adults will gather and reflect together
- artists will find space to think and create
We have already secured:
€30,000 for professional cinema equipment
Now we need:
€30,000 to complete the reconstruction and launch the program and we are collecting it with crowdfunding here
€30,000 for professional cinema equipment
Now we need:
€30,000 to complete the reconstruction and launch the program and we are collecting it with crowdfunding here
Your contribution helps:
- rebuild a historic cultural space
- create opportunities for children and youth
- bring international artists into a rural community
- build a long-term cultural ecosystem
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- Restore and reopen Gardinovci’s historic cinema hall.
- Create a sustainable cultural hub serving the local community and beyond.
- Position the cinema as a flagship space for independent film, education, and intercultural exchange.
- Technical equipment (projection, sound, lighting)
- Renovation & restoration of the cinema hall
- Professional services (architecture, design, technical setup)
- Operational foundation for festivals, screenings, and workshops
Restoring The Cinema Hall Gardinovci
Built in 1961, Gardinovci’s cinema hall was once the temple of cultural life. For nearly three decades, it brought people together, offering films, conversations, and a space where the community could gather. Since the late 1980s, however, the hall has stood silent.
Now, after decades of silence, this landmark is waiting to be revived.
Our next step is to restore the cinema hall and transform it into a vibrant center for cinema, education, and community.
This isn’t just about bricks and chairs — it’s about bringing people together, bridging generations, and creating a hub where stories are shared and futures are imagined.
Once restored, the cinema will become:
Beyond screenings, the hall will evolve into a film school, where young creators learn by living in a community that values both tradition and innovation.
Project Vision
The investment covers
Why Join?
Your contribution will help transform an abandoned cinema into a living cultural landmark that inspires, educates, and connects people across borders.
This is our shared investment. Together, we will bring the cinema back to life.
Now, after decades of silence, this landmark is waiting to be revived.
Our next step is to restore the cinema hall and transform it into a vibrant center for cinema, education, and community.
This isn’t just about bricks and chairs — it’s about bringing people together, bridging generations, and creating a hub where stories are shared and futures are imagined.
Once restored, the cinema will become:
- The centerpiece of the Transformative Cinema School
- A weekly meeting place for children and adults through screenings and clubs
- A gathering point for workshops, Q&A discussions, and creative exchanges
- A host of the International Film Festival, welcoming artists and visitors from Serbia and abroad
Beyond screenings, the hall will evolve into a film school, where young creators learn by living in a community that values both tradition and innovation.
Project Vision
- Restore and reopen Gardinovci’s historic cinema hall.
- Create a sustainable cultural hub serving the local community and beyond.
- Position the cinema as a flagship space for independent film, education, and intercultural exchange.
The investment covers
- Technical equipment (projection, sound, lighting)
- Renovation & restoration of the cinema hall
- Professional services (architecture, design, technical setup)
- Operational foundation for festivals, screenings, and workshops
Why Join?
- Be part of a pioneering cultural initiative in rural Serbia
- Support an intergenerational, sustainable community project
- Gain visibility through association with film festivals and international media coverage
- Leave a lasting legacy in the revival of cultural infrastructure
Your contribution will help transform an abandoned cinema into a living cultural landmark that inspires, educates, and connects people across borders.
This is our shared investment. Together, we will bring the cinema back to life.
Avangardinovci
School of Transformative Cinema
Cinema is not just storytelling — it is medicine. A shamanic approach to cinema means we are cooking the medicine for people, connecting to the collective unconscious. Each film becomes a mirror of its creator’s inner world: their conflicts, their journeys, their healing. Through self-discovery, confrontation, acceptance, and resolution, filmmakers transform their personal struggles into gifts — medicines for the audience, shared through the screen.
This vision is not only about films, but about a school — a living system. A place where people learn how to create cinema as a medicine for the soul. It is spiritual, but also deeply practical, psychological, and therapeutic. A practice that teaches creators to enter their own depths and bring back something that heals others.
And here, the role of ritual and ceremony becomes essential. Inspired by psychomagic, shamanic practices, and sacred traditions, the act of filmmaking becomes a rite, and the cinema itself becomes a temple. That is why the reconstruction of the Gardinovci cinema hall is not just a renovation project
— it is the foundation of this vision. A true temple of cinema, where creators can offer their work as prayers, and audiences can enter into a ceremony with them.
The land and nature around this place are not separate from the vision, but integral to it. Just as we planted trees and nurtured bees, so too will students cultivate themselves. The houses, the fields, the trees — they all become reflections of the inner worlds of those who come here. They will learn from nature, and in turn, give back to it, living in reciprocity.
Cinema, then, becomes a gateway into the collective unconscious.
A tool for transformation, both personal and communal.
Cinema is not just storytelling — it is medicine. A shamanic approach to cinema means we are cooking the medicine for people, connecting to the collective unconscious. Each film becomes a mirror of its creator’s inner world: their conflicts, their journeys, their healing. Through self-discovery, confrontation, acceptance, and resolution, filmmakers transform their personal struggles into gifts — medicines for the audience, shared through the screen.
This vision is not only about films, but about a school — a living system. A place where people learn how to create cinema as a medicine for the soul. It is spiritual, but also deeply practical, psychological, and therapeutic. A practice that teaches creators to enter their own depths and bring back something that heals others.
And here, the role of ritual and ceremony becomes essential. Inspired by psychomagic, shamanic practices, and sacred traditions, the act of filmmaking becomes a rite, and the cinema itself becomes a temple. That is why the reconstruction of the Gardinovci cinema hall is not just a renovation project
— it is the foundation of this vision. A true temple of cinema, where creators can offer their work as prayers, and audiences can enter into a ceremony with them.
The land and nature around this place are not separate from the vision, but integral to it. Just as we planted trees and nurtured bees, so too will students cultivate themselves. The houses, the fields, the trees — they all become reflections of the inner worlds of those who come here. They will learn from nature, and in turn, give back to it, living in reciprocity.
Cinema, then, becomes a gateway into the collective unconscious.
A tool for transformation, both personal and communal.
