Love is the quiet force that rebuilds what was broken. Unity is the light that guides us forward.
This is their story…
From Serbia to the world, a new vision and frequency moves through the youth, one woven with hope, compassion, and unbreakable solidarity
At the forefront of this rising are the women, whose voices, resilience, and leadership have set the tone for a new era of courage.
They show us that even in the darkest chapters of humanity, the light returns through those willing to stand together.
A reminder that humanity’s greatest revolutions begin with love and what becomes possible when we stand as ONE.
This is The Students of Serbia.
Trailer:
Episode 1: After the Fall of the Canopy
On November 1, 2024, a canopy collapsed at the Novi Sad railway station, claiming sixteen lives and shattering the sense of normalcy across Serbia. What followed was not only a period of national grief, but the beginning of a profound civic awakening.
This episode lays the historical foundation for a two-part podcast series on the Students of Serbia—tracing the year that followed the Fall of the Canopy and the conditions that gave rise to one of the most significant student-led movements in modern European history.
Through remembrance rituals, silent vigils, democratic plenums, long-distance marches, and mass mobilizations, Serbian students transformed grief into collective action. As institutions faltered and pressure intensified, women emerged at the frontlines—holding space, organizing, protecting, and sustaining the movement with courage, clarity, and care.
Episode 1 focuses on:
- The aftermath of the canopy collapse and its national impact
- How student organizing evolved in the months that followed
- The emergence of silence, solidarity, and remembrance as forms of resistance
- The role of women in holding the moral and emotional center of the movement
- The events leading up to the pivotal March 15 gathering in Belgrade
This episode does not seek to sensationalize tragedy. It exists to document history, honor lives lost, and provide context for understanding how a generation chose unity over division—and love over fear.
Episode 2: The Moment We Chose Each Other: The Students of Serbia and the Power of Solidarity
Following the historical groundwork laid in Episode 1, Episode 2, Part 1 centers the voices of the students themselves.
Liza Florida sits down with three student leaders who emerged at the forefront of Serbia’s mass civic awakening following the November 1st collapse of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad, a preventable disaster that claimed 16 lives. Rather than recounting events from a distance, this episode offers firsthand testimony—what it felt like to live inside a system where corruption is not abstract, but lethal.
The students describe how mourning evolved into mobilization, and how universities became sanctuaries of resistance. Through democratic student assemblies known as Plenums, young people from vastly different disciplines—engineering, philosophy, medicine, and the arts—came together to practice the democracy they felt had been stripped from public life.
From sleeping on faculty floors in freezing conditions to facing police repression and public intimidation, these women reveal a new form of leadership rooted not in hierarchy, but in solidarity, care, and moral clarity.
This is not a story about politics as ideology—it is about survival, accountability, and the fundamental right to live.