Section: Focus

O PREMIERA – I WANNA BE AN ACTOR

O PREMIERA – I WANNA BE AN ACTOR

Sara Skenderi, Resul Veshall, Hamze Bytyci, Janis Westphal, Constanze Wolpers
Kosovo, Germany, 2015, 18 Min

Filmmaking and theatre production in Prizren's Roma community. Many of Resul's friends act in the local Romani language, thus lending a voice to the local community. Together with his girlfriend Sara he also wants to try his luck on the big state and so, together with friends and family, they proceed to research tales of love and emigration, ultimately staging a play of their own; not without teething problems however.

Balkan Onions – Short Films from the Roma Community of Prizren

The 'Balkan Onions', a Berlin-based multicultural team made up of fifteen young filmmakers and cinéastes from the cultural organisation RomaTrial, as well as the filmArche film school, set off in August 2015 to the historic city of Prizren with the aim of collaborating with Kosovan colleagues from Durmish Aslano on a fourteen-day film summer school, producing a few short films and then showing these at the 14th DokuFest, the renowned documentary and short film festival held annually in Prizren. Implemented by amateur filmmakers, with the help of amateur actors and actresses from the local Roma community, the aim was to bring together filmmakers from two very different countries, provide a platform for mutual exchange and ultimately allow participants to gain a wider perspective on documentary and narrative filmmaking, whilst placing particular focus on the issues of migration and the fate of Roma people.

Filmformat
HDFile | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Sara Skenderi, Resul Veshall, Janis Westphal, Constanze Wolpers
Kamera
Janis Westphal
Produzent
Hamze Bytyci, Veronika Patočková
Produktion
RomaTrial e. V.
Co-Produktion
filmArche e.V.
Kontakt
RomaTrial e. V.
Hamze Bytyci
Postfach 440 624
12066 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +49.173.4598 235
balkanonions@romatrial.org
www.romatrial.org

Sara Skenderi, Resul Veshall, Hamze Bytyci, Janis Westphal, Constanze Wolpers -