Gunpowder and hails of bombs drive people away like ghosts. What’s left is the memory of a place, a test, an event. And while a donkey pees in the desert, the flowers in a torn city bloom again.
The Fading of Shooting Stars
Films
The Divided City of Mitrovica
The Divided City of Mitrovica
Marko Grba Singh
Serbia,
Kosovo
Doc Alliance
Mitrovica bears the consequences of the Kosovo war as a lingering echo: The north is inhabited by Serbs, the south by Albanians. How does this division manifest itself in people’s minds?
Can the evil spirit of a person too close to you be banished by animation, just as one would use fireworks? A marvelously well-thought-out experiment to fight one’s own emotional decay.
Contains mentions of
mental health conditions, murder
“Cinema is banned here – people prefer football.” Ibrahim has to overcome bureaucracy and resistance in order to show films in his home village in Sudan. Then the war breaks out.
A pencil and a few sheets of paper. A hand drawing a version of Gaza that only now exists on the memory of the person drawing it. And as he draws, he says: I remember everything.
Children’s games, school essays and driving lessons: summery snapshots that circle around each other from the everyday lives of refugees, held together by the hope of returning to normality.