MEDJU BOGOVIMA
DWELLING AMONG THE GODS
Performance
The movie is based on real events that took place during the so-called migration crisis in Europe in 2015. The co-author of the script, journalist Momir Turudić, was working with refugees as a Farsi interpreter at the time. The story of a young Afghan woman learning of her brother's death, on the one hand, reflects the complexity and drama of the refugee situation, and on the other hand, looks like a new version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone, in which a determined princess from Thebes buries her brother in defiance of the king's ban. However, unlike the myth, in Vuk Ršumović's movie there are no villains. The female protagonist is confronted not by a cruel king, but by an indifferent bureaucratic system built on the care of papers, not people. The same system also pressures its own representative, the interpreter, who takes Fereshteh's situation to heart and serves as a conduit between the two cultures — and not just for the plot, but for the audience as well. DWELLING AMONG THE GODS brings the classic theme of Antigone into the present — the conflict between the moral law and the state law remains relevant to this day.
Text: Ksenia Reutova
08.11.2024 | 12:30 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)
09.11.2024 | 21:00 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)
Momir Turudic, Vuk Ršumović
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Vuk Ršumović - Vuk Ršumović is an award winning writer & director. His feature film debut NO ONE'S CHILD premiered at Venice Film Festival Critic's Week winning three major awards. The film has won over 35 awards all over the world, among them New Voices/New Visions Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best Film Award at GoEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden and Golden Arena for Best Film at Pula Film Festival. In 2015, the film has been screened at Sarajevo Film Festival as part of In Focus programme. In 2020, he wrote and directed the limited TV series MOULD based on a true story of the notorious "missing babies" affair in Yugoslavia. He is a screenwriter of GUARDIANS OF THE FORMULA, the Audience Award winning movie of 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival's Feature Film Programme. He works as a full time professor of Screenwriting and Film Directing at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.DWELLING AMONG THE GODS is his second feature film.
