Kurzfilmprogramm EcoEast

Before Valeria Praţa's eyes, her Romanian home village of Geamăna is sinking into the toxic sludge of a copper mine. She is one of the last inhabitants - and is in mourning.

In enchantingly beautiful shots, alternating between colour and black and white, Rufat Ray's debut tells of a dowser in search of water - and life itself.

Atmospheric-contemplative shots reflect melancholy: in the open-cast lignite mining area of Kakanj near Sarajevo, residents bid farewell to their destroyed homeland.