Bottlemen

Vinča is not just an ordinary landfill on the outskirts of the big city. The place is considered the second most polluted landfill in Europe. Today, Roma live here, collecting the plastic bottles that hide in Belgrade's rubbish. The leader of the group is Yani, a former boxer who experiences his ups and downs in the course of the film. Director Nemanja Vojinović and his team manage to almost completely eliminate the distance between the protagonists and the camera and give the viewers deep insights. They not only let the landfill workers into the bottle collection centre, but also into their private living quarters, where the men relax after a long day of work. BOTTLEMEN uses cinematic means to break down a desolate landscape into vivid, striking images; it is both a subtle ethnographic sketch and an environmental manifesto. The sight of hundreds of seagulls fluttering their white wings over mountains of rubbish will probably stay in our viewers' minds for a long time.

Text: Ksenia Reutova

The film will be shown at the Kammerbühne in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.

The film will be shown in the original language and with English subtitles in the upstairs cinema. No translation into German!