Special Screening: Revealing Memories

Special Screening: Revealing Memories

Sat 14 9 | 12:00 Kino REX

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My Grandfather - A Desk For Each Pupil
Hope Hotel Phantom
Rabbitland
Letters From Silivri
Sans Le Kosovo

My Grandfather - A Desk For Each Pupil

In the 90s, when the Serbian government forcibly removed students for opposing the curriculum, my grandfather and volunteers built new desks, ensuring education in Kosovo.

Hena Krasniqi, a promising filmmaker, was born in 2005 in Prizren, Kosovo. Completing her high school education at the esteemed Gjon Buzuku gymnasium. Driven by an unwavering love for the film genre, Hena embarked on her first cinematic venture with determination and creativity.

Director

Hena Krasniqi

Duration

6 min

Language

OV Albanian | English

Genre

Short, Documentary

Cast
Country

Kosovo

Year

2023

Distributor

Dokufest

Hope Hotel Phantom

In November 1995, the leaders of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia & Serbia met in Dayton (Ohio) to broker a peace agreement that would end four violent years of war in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Negotiated at the Hope Hotel located on the grounds of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Dayton Agreement locked Bosnia & Herzegovina into a simulacra of democracy, through the proxy of a site that was a simulacra in itself: a military base on the other side of the world, an intimidation to the signing parties.

27 years later, in July 2022, I flew to America from BiH and booked myself a room at the Hope Hotel. There, I filled the same beds & conference halls as the people who had once shaped my future — a phantom in the echoes of this historical event: a dream turned nightmare.

Bojan Stojčić (1988) is a Bosnian visual artist. Most recently, he won the ZVONO Award for best young artist in BiH (2023), the WHW Academy scholarships for an emerging artist (2022), as well as the Revizor scholarship for engagement and achievement in science and art (2022).

With his multimedia works Stojčić addresses the autocolonial discourse and affect in the meta-Yugoslav space, questioning the collective and individual view of the peripheral Other and self. Shaped by intense experiences of loss, absence, displacement and transition, both in public and in his private life, Stojčić positioned himself as a European peripheral entity, winning this position and subverting it. Expressing himself through humor, poetics and geopolitics, Stojčić explores the traces and transformations of the present.

He lives in Sarajevo where he runs his design and art studio.

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Director

Bojan Stojčić

Duration

21 min

Language

OV English

Genre

Short, Documentary

Cast
Country

Bosnia and Herzegovina, USA

Year

2023

Distributor

Film director

Rabbitland

Brainless Rabbits live in Rabittland, a perfect world ordered according to the most successful examples of war zones, ghettos and slums. They are intensively pink, have holes in their heads instead of brains, and they are happy regardless of what happens to them. They are the highest stage the evolution has ever reached. Their everyday life is completely fulfilled. The Rabbits spend days voting on free and democratic elections, which take place in Rabbitland once a day, because Rabbitland is an ordered democracy. Nevertheless, it gets disclosed that the elections are organized by the Evil Girls, just for their fun and laughter.

Ana Nedeljković was born in Belgrade in 1978. She graduated from painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She has acquired PhD in art practice from the same faculty in 2012. She is visual artist working in media of drawing, installation, animated film, and is active in the field of art education.

Nikola Majdak,jr. born in Slovenia 1972. He has MFA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, camera department.  Last 20 years he is freelance cameraman, animator, director and lecturer.

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Director

Nikola Majdak, Ana Nedeljković

Duration

7 min

Language

OV English

Genre

Short, Animation

Cast
Country

Serbia

Year

2013

Distributor

Film director

Letters From Silivri

"Letters from Silivri" draws on letters of the Turkish philanthropist and public intellectual Osman Kavala to document a timeline of his imprisonment. By separating voice and image the film intends to create an echo chamber that allows audiences to listen more carefully to Kavalas letters, while at the same time place his words in context to a civil society.

Adrian Figueroa is a director, video artist and filmmaker from Germany. In 2009, he completed his master's degree at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Since 2010, he has made several award-winning documentary films including Die Lücke – Ein Stück Keupstraße about the NSU bomb attack, and Elsewhere, which premiered at Hof Film Festival in 2017 and awarded Best Documentary in 2018 at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival. His production of One Day I Went to Lidl was invited to the German Youth Theatre Convention in 2016. In cooperation with the prison theatre project "aufBruch" he realises theatre projects in Berlin prisons. His work as a video artist and stage director led him to performances at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspiel Köln, HAU Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, JSA Berlin, Casa Alianza Mexico, Old Vic Tunnels London and the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.

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Director

Adrian Figueroa

Duration

16 min

Language

OV Turkish│English

Genre

Short, Documentary

Cast
Country

Turkey, Germany

Year

2020

Distributor

Film director

Sans Le Kosovo

My father and I take the road to retrace his exile as a 19-year-old refugee from Kosovo in 1968.

Dea Gjinovci Born in 1993. Swiss-Albanian director and producer lives between Paris and Geneva. BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics from SOAS (University of London) and a Master in Ethnographic and Documentary Film from UCL (University of London). SANS LE KOSOVO (2017) was awarded Best National Film Award at Dokufest Prizren and screened at several international film festivals. WAKE UP ON MARS won the RTS-Perspective d’un doc award at Visions du Réel 2018 for a documentary project in development and received a Sundance Institute development grant. WAKE UP ON MARS went on to premiere virtually at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and Visions du Réel. In 2020 she founded the Geneva-based production company Astrae Productions.

Director

Dea Gjinovci

Duration

22 min

Language

OV Albanian, French│English

Genre

Short, Documentary

Cast

Asllan Gjinovci

Country

Kosovo, United Kingdom 

Year

2017

Distributor

Film director