After being presented at WARM Festival 2025 in Sarajevo, Raúl Gallego Abellán’s new film Pumpaj: The Student Uprising is now available to watch online. The film was made as part of Punt de no retorn (Point of No Return), a documentary series produced for TV3 Catalonia.
Raúl Gallego Abellán, winner of the 2024 International Emmy Award for Best Short-Form Series, turns his lens once again to a generation that refuses to remain silent.
In a Europe where youth often drift between political apathy and the lure of far-right populism, Serbia’s students rise in defiance. What began with the deadly collapse of Novi Sad’s train station, a tragedy exposing deep corruption, soon grew into the longest student strike in modern European history.
With exclusive access inside Belgrade’s University of Dramatic Arts, the birthplace and heart of the uprising, Raúl follows a new generation daring to imagine democracy against fear, repression, and the ghosts of the Balkan wars. From occupations to peaceful marches challenging Aleksandar Vučić’s regime, Pumpaj: The Student Uprising captures the victories, contradictions, and struggles of a movement whose ideas could shape not only Serbia’s future, but that of a Europe in crisis.
