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Date(s), Venue(s): Sunday, December 4, 8pm. Toldi Cinema

UNMIK Titanik

Boris Mitić / 2004 / Serbia and Montenegro / 56 min

New Year’s Eve, December 2003. Pristina, Kosovo: one of the most heavily guarded places on earth. After four years of Serbo–Albanian conflicts and 77 days of NATO bombing, UN administrators have taken over. But what kind of life do ordinary people lead there now? The film focuses on Serbian families living in an abandoned building. Of the 40,000 Serbs who lived in Pristina before the conflict, only 100 remain. Some of them took over a building from the Yu Programme, hoping for a better future. They expected to have to stay in this downtown residential area only for a while, but it has been their ghetto for five years. In spite of everything, nobody wants to miss the New Year celebrations. What is this special evening like for the families? The children are 'locked up' in the building, too scared to go outside. They play soccer between apartments and watch videos while adults chat over drinks and listen to Serbian turbo-folk music. With dynamic handheld camera-work and almost no artificial lighting, the director captures the depressing atmosphere and the hopelessness of people whose lives are ruled by others.