BLEDI LYUDI
PALE FOLKS
Trailer
An old railbus travels through the snow-covered landscape. A herd of sheep runs across the barren meadows, the scrap dealer drives his donkey cart past old industrial plants to the big rubbish dump. Many Roma are looking here for recyclable material. The region is going downhill, people say, and the politicians are to blame. But there have been serious economic crises, smuggling and the black market ever since the beginning of the 1990s, but, people somehow keep on managing to stand it here, even at 16 degrees below zero. The young people hang around in bars, one of them wants to make a name for himself as a rap musician. Two policemen investigate the metal thefts without any real hope of success. One of the thieves' coveted objects is the monument by the river, which commemorates the 600 to 1000 dead who were drowned under the ice here during the Second World War. In Tito's Yugoslavia, such memorials were a reason of state and the victims became martyrs – nowadays, both only have scrap value. Time stands still when even the memory itself fades. WMH
Pro Re | S&W / B&W
Vladimir Todorović
Jovan Mošorinac
Gabor Ripli
Dejan Došljak
Dalibor Kurjak, Brian O'Reilly
Aleksandar Protić, Alisa Baloš, Jovica Jašin, Miljan Vuković, Radivoj Radu Šandor, Crni
Akanga Film Asia
Tadar Studio
Vladimir Todorović
K. Abrasevica 30
23000 Zrnjanin
Republic of Serbia
vladimir.todorovic@gmail.com
Vladimir Todorović - born in 1977 in Yugoslavia (today Serbia). He is a director and media artist, and studied visual arts in Belgrade and at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His films have been presented and awarded at numerous film festivals. He lives and works in Singapore, amongst other things as a lecturer.
WATER HANDS (2010, FFC 2011)
DISAPPEARING LANDSCAPE (2013)
FLUID BOUNDARIES (2014)
KARST (2015, doc)
