NARROW IS THE GATE
NARROW IS THE GATE
Kosovo in the year 2000: inter-ethnic hatred is omnipresent, the Serbian monastery Gračanica, one of the orthodox sanctums of “the cradle of the Serbian nation”, is no exception. Guarded over by KFOR soldiers, here lives the Sister Teodora, who tells a tale of isolation in her own homeland. After having been banished from her previous monastery the sanguine old woman now refuses to speak a word of Albanian. The director is also expected to take a stand: “I arrived in Kosovo soon after the NATO bombing. 'Whose side are you on?' was a question asked by everybody. … Being neutral meant betrayal.“
HDV | Farbe / colour
Kersti Uibo
George Foulgham
Paul Lapointe
kuibo@hotmail.co.uk
Kersti Uibo - born 1956 in Kilingi Nõmme, Estonia. Having studied linguistics and history in Moscow and London turned to documentary film and studied at the London National Film School. Her works as an auteur have featured at numerous international documentary film festivals.
DIVA IN THE BATH (1992, doc)
EVALD’S ACRE (1994, doc)
NARROW IS THE GATE (2002, doc, Cottbus 2012)
STILL LIFE WITH WIFE (2006, doc)
THIS IS THE DAY (2011, doc)