Subversive Festival has several sections.
The Subversive Film Festival In 2011 the Subversive Film Festival, originally the core of the festival, became one of many festival sections. The
film festival consists of a selection of films according to their relation to the main theme of that year's Festival (e.g. 1968, China, Socialism, Decolonisation, Europa Incognita, Utopia of Democracy),
retrospectives of acknowledged
leftist film authors and
panel discussions between
film theoreticians and
filmmakers. The most notable film retrospectives so far include an overview of the revolutionary films of the 1960s and 1970s, a selection of
Chinese film classics and contemporary films, a major
retrospective of
Yugoslav cinema (
curated by Sergio Germani Grmek) and a selection of contemporary
Third World cinema. The sixth edition of the Subversive Film Festival (in 2013) introduced competition categories for contemporary
European and international films, selected by the
artistic director Dragan Rubeša. The first Wild Dreamer Award for Lifetime Achievement was given to
Oliver Stone, whose latest 10-hour-long series the
Untold History of the United States was shown in the main film programme. The Wild Dreamer for Best Documentary Film went to Italian director
Daniele Vicari for ''
. The Land of Hope'' by Japanese director
Shion Sono, a story about a family whose father refuses to evacuate his sick wife from a
radiation affected area, won the Best Feature Award. French filmmaker Sylvain George's
Vers Madrid (en.
The Burning Bright!), which documents demonstrations of the
15-M grassroots protest movement in Spain, was voted Best Film by the
audience.
The Subversive Forum The Subversive Forum is a leftist and
progressive event that established itself as an open platform for different and even opposing positions. The Subversive Forum is not connected to any
political party but it attracts individuals of various political stripes on the progressive left and is related to almost all significant Croatian,
post-Yugoslav and
Balkans social movements – from
student movements,
trade unions,
feminist organisations, the Right to the City movements,
green and
LGBT activists etc. The Subversive Forum has been supported by the
World Social Forum as an official event of the WSF. According to the organizers, the Subversive forum has become "one of the key European mobilisation points for activists and intellectuals from the region and the world, thinking jointly how to build better social systems" highlighted a need for stronger
cooperation among these movements as well as for joint action across the
peninsula. A huge number of activists gathered in 2012 and 2013 to discuss topics relevant to the region, including
neoliberal policies, rampant
privatisation, the defense of the
Commons, student and workers movements, sex and
gender equality,
social change, as well as the questions of
democratisation and
participation, the media and
public sphere, and alternative
economic models. The Balkan Forum includes both
self-organised sessions by movements and organisations themselves as well as
plenary sessions. ==Networks and influence==