"The arthouse Belgrade cinema flickering back to life".
^ a b c d Druelle, Julia (30 January 2016). It premiered at the South East European Film Festival. In 2018, Senka Domanović released a documentary entitled Occupied Cinema about the occupation. The first film screened by the occupiers was Innocence Unprotected by Dušan Makavejev. You might as well commit suicide immediately." Other supporters were philosophers Srećko Horvat and Alain Badiou. Djivanovic spoke with the squatters and commented "I feel great pity for them Imagine being an artist in Serbia. It was supported by Michel Gondry, who made a short film dedicated to the project and Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who visited the space when he was in Belgrade. The activists included Dobrica Veselinović and film director Luka Bursac, the occupation quickly received media coverage worldwide. It was renamed Novi Bioskop Zvezda (New Star Cinema). Īfter years of dereliction, the cinema was squatted by 200 people under the banner of the Movement for the Occupation of Cinemas in 2014. 
In 2012, Djivanovic was convicted to two years in prison on various charges. Although the terms of the contract had specified that the cinema should stay open, this clause was ignored. He flipped it to an equity investor, Lantern International, and the cinema was closed down. Zvezda was owned by the state-run company Beograd Film but was sold off to derivatives trader Nikola Djivanovic in 2007. Under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia it was renamed as the Star ( Serbian: Zvezda). Built in 1911, it is the oldest in Belgrade. The cinema opened as the Koloseum, with an Art Nouveau frontage.
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