STEEL HOTEL SONG

Presentation 6 (shorts) is followed by a Q&A with Aleksandar Hemon and Bojan Stojčić.

Length: 20 min
Film Category: Short Documentary
North American Premiere

Film Synopsis:

Željezara Zenica, once a steel mill giant, at the height of its power employed 24,000 workers. Hotel Internacional was its crown jewel—a modernist masterpiece intended to host the highest-ranking business delegations. After the partial privatization of Željezara Zenica, the hotel was closed and left to the passage of time, guarded only by former steelworks employees. Opposite the hotel stands the stadium of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team, where thousands of fans gather for every match to cheer on and celebrate their national side. Nationalistic celebration of the country echoes through the empty halls of Hotel Internacional—a symbol of the collapse of its industry.

 

Director's Biography:

Bojan Stojčić (1988) is a visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the recipient of the Nadežda Petrović gallery award (Serbia, 2024), YVAA Award for the best young artist in BiH (BiH, 2023), the WHW Academy scholarship for emerging artists (Croatia, 2022), and the Revizor Scholarship for engagement and achievements in science and art (BiH, 2022). He has exhibited at numerous shows and venues, including the Antifascism: Now, curated by Kalas Liebfried (Munich, 2026), Art Encounters biennial, curated by Ana Janevski and Tevž Logar (Timișoara, 2025), Nadežda Petrović biennial, curated by Zdenka Badovinec (Čačak, 2024). Through his multimedia works, Stojčić addresses positions of the Other, be it post-Yugoslav, post-Dayton, or post-EU. Expressing himself through humor, poetics, and geopolitics, he explores traces and transformations of the present.
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