If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave
If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave
Having left behind home, family and friends these two African refugees have travelled thousands of kilometres across Europe and yet the future remains uncertain.
Taking a documentary-like approach this film makes use of long takes in order to portrait and detail its protagonists. One of the men sings an Arabian song, which speaks of his distant homeland; a striking contrast to the autumnal sombreness of the surrounding fields and the void of their temporary shelter. Which border will be the next they are smuggled across whilst hidden in the back of a lorry? The soundtrack gives clues as to the answer, whilst the film makes the currently much-discussed European migration routes more tangible to a wider audience. JG
DCP | Farbe / colour
Marko Grba Singh
Marko Milovanović
Milan Andjelović, Branko Topalović
Arsen Dedić
Abdul Akin, Hamza Amash
Stud AVP - TEMPUS
Faculty of Dramatic Arts
Nenad Popović
Bulevar umetnosti 20
11070 Belgrade
Serbia
Tel.: +381.11.214 6532
nenad.popovic@fdu.bg.ac.rs
www.fdu.edu.rs
Marko Grba Singh - – born 1988 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia). He lived in London and is currently on his master year of film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His short films and short documentaries have been screened at several festivals worldwide over the past few years.
SAMO ŠTO NISMO (2011, short)
KASNO SMO SE SRELI (2012, short, doc)
BLEDO (2013, short, doc)
SNUPI (2013, short)
PLESAĆEŠ PONOVO (2013, short)
BLEDO (2013, short, doc)
THESE MOMENTS WILL SHINE (2014, short)
ABDUL AND HAMZA (2015, short)
