Balkan Dreams/Balkan Realities

Four cinematic quests for traces that read and interpret the signs of war: Elke Groen's TITO-MATERIAL is based on a very specific film find from a destroyed cinema in Mostar; the damaged reel shows weathered images of the former marshal, which are given a new form of materiality by means of reconstruction. In her essay, Nina Kusturica reconstructs memories of her escape to Austria and goes in search of a friend from her childhood. In CITY AFTER THE WAR, the inhabitants of Sarajevo describe the meandering paths of their everyday lives, which are characterized by a radical reorganization of conditions - and a never-ending struggle for survival, while Selma Doborac's film deals with the non-transferability of war.

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