Iron Gate International Film Festival
Ø Festival | Kladovo | Serbia 21 - 24 August 2025
The New Year That Never Came
Bogdan Mureșanu | Fetislam Summer Stage | 08/21/2025 21:00
Territory
Álex Galán | Fetislam Summer Stage | 08/22/2025 21:00
Where There Is Love, There Is No Darkness
Stevan Lee Mraovitch | Cultural Center | 08/22/2025 18:00
Tilva Roš
Nikola Ležaić | Cultural Center | 08/23/2025 18:00
Founder’s Note
Iron Gate is an independent cultural initiative dedicated to showcasing local and international cinema and creating space to reflect on the world through art. The festival will bring screenings, talks, workshops, and filmmaker encounters—all set in the unique landscape of the Iron Gates, where nature and history converge.
Festival Lineup
The New Year That Never Came
Anul Nou care n-a fost
Date: 08/21/2025
Time: 21:00
Location: Fetislam Summer Stage
Duration: 138 min
New Year that Never Came Just days before the fall of Ceaușescu in Romania, the lives of six ordinary people become intertwined in the turmoil unfolding as the regime collapses. A director at the state television, in a panic, searches for a replacement for the lead actress in the New Year’s special after she defects to the West – unaware that her replacement also detests the regime’s propaganda. The director’s young son secretly plans to swim across the frozen Danube and escape to Yugoslavia, but the secret police are watching his every move. A member of the secret police is torn between loyalty to the regime and protecting his mother, who is facing eviction from her apartment being seized by the state. A factory worker realizes in fear that his son's letter to Santa Claus could put the whole family in danger. The tragicomic moments in these lives tick away like a clock, counting down to the revolution, eventually set off by the bang of a single firecracker.
Where There Is Love, There Is No Darkness
Where There Is Love, There Is No Darkness
Date: 08/22/2025
Time: 18:00
Location: Cultural Center
Duration: 78 min
In the very heart of Paris, Seydou, an undocumented migrant, works as a delivery man to support his family in Senegal, facing the dangers of the city’s nightlife in a metropolis where he is virtually invisible. Unexpectedly, Seydou forms a friendship with Albert, an elderly widower who lives a reclusive life, and it is this friendship that gives him a sense of warmth and belonging in the city despite the hardships.
Territory
Territory
Date: 08/22/2025
Time: 21:00
Location: Fetislam Summer Stage
Duration: 60 min
Film "Territory", directed by Álex Galán (Salvajes, 2021), is considered one of the Spanish documentaries of the year following its premiere at international festivals in Moscow, Atlántida, FICX, Turin, and Cairo. Shot in the snowy mountains of Central Asia and starring Darko Péric (Money Heist), the film explores the path to deconstructing the concept of success among nomadic shepherds and remote landscapes. "Territory" is a rare discovery, a wild experience set in one of the harshest winters on the continent, evoking Asian naturalist cinema more than traditional Spanish film. With a radically independent spirit, it premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival and arrived in Spain through the Atlántida Mallorca Film Fest, before continuing on to St. Petersburg, Yalta, Almería Western, FICX, Tangier, and the prestigious TFF Turin and Cairo festivals.