Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Destinacija_Serbistan

Destination_Serbistan

Želimir Žilnik

Serbia, 2015, 94 Min

Months before the Balkan route to the EU hit the headlines director Želimir Žilnik accompanied the trials and tribulations of African immigrants as they travel across provincial Serbia, observing the extraordinary cross-cultural encounters that occur along the way.

Playground Produkcija

These refugees from the Middle East and Africa, in search of a better future, see Serbia as nothing more than a steppingstone. Nobody wants to stay in a country where the streets are little better than those in Africa. Želimir Žilnik captures every moment, both the upbeat and the tragic, as these two very different worlds collide; in the refugee shelters and by the camp-fire, when an elderly Serb recites the Koran and the refugees get caught up in a discussion on polygamy. WMH

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Želimir Žilnik

Kamera
Miodrag Milošević, Orfeas Skutelis

Ton
Filip Vlatković

Schnitt
Vuk Vukmirović

Musik
Meho Puzić, Gabriella Benak, Milan Nenin

Darsteller
Stanley Akumbe, Mohamed Lee, Ibrahim Karabo, Duru Jelad, Brian Schwarz, Guy Maestracci, Stojan Sjekloća, Alharake Mohammed

Produzent
Sarita Matijević

Produktion
Playground Produkcija Njegoševa 16 21 000 Novi Sad Serbia Tel.: +381.63.540 493 playground@sbb.rs playgroundprodukcija.wordpress.com

Kontakt
Playground Produkcija
Sarita Matijević
Njegoševa 16
21 000 Novi Sad
Serbia
Tel.: +381.63.540 493
playground@sbb.rs

Želimir Žilnik - born 1942 in Niš, Serbia. His socially engaged films and documentaries were awarded numerous times: a Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlinale in 1969 among others. Due to his criticism of the Yugoslavian government apparatus, his films were censored 1970s. He is also mentor, teacher and executive producer.

Movies
NEZAPOSLENI LJUDI (1968, short, doc)
RANI RADOVI (1969, doc)
TAKO SE KALIO ČELIK (1988)
TITO PO DRUGI PUT MEDJU SRBIMA (1993)
DUPE OD MRAMORA (1995)
TVRDJAVA EVROPA (2001)
STARA ŠKOLA KAPITALIZMA (2009)

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