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Based on 9,5mm found footage filmed by Belgrade cineamateurs between the two world wars, this film looks into the private family archive as a reflection of Yugoslav history.
A journey by sea and overland is punctuated by alternating rhyming verses. These are poems by Fadil Hasin Ash-Shalmani that add to a little documented historical fact: the deportation of numerous civilians in the early years of the Italian occupation of Libya.
After gaining independence in the early 1960s, the young African nations are greeted by an unexpected and enigmatic friend from a far-off continent: Soviet parliamentarians arrive in an endless stream, paying visits to Africa’s new leaders.
A quest’s story brings together both archives and fiction with rare stylistic refinement and humor.
