Festivals/Awards:
FID Marseille 2015 (special mention: first film competition), Torino Film Festival 2015, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival 2015 (special mention: Between the seas section), ZagrebDox 2016 (special mention: Young Jury Award), Dokufest Prizren 2015, Berwick Film & Media Arts 2015, Pančevo Film Festival 2015, Berwick Film &
Media Arts Festival 2015, Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival 2015, Euro In film festival Novi Sad 2015, Cinema Světozor, Prague 2016, Kino Xenix, Zurich 2016, Amdocs, Palm Springs 2016, Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival 2016
Director's Bio-Filmography:
Marko Grba Singh este regizor de origine sârbă cunoscut pentru documentarele de scurtmetraj, “At Least We’ve Met” şi “Pale” ce au avut premiera la festivalul Visions du Réel din Nyon în 2012, respectiv 2013. Acestea au fost apoi selecţionate pentru mai mult de patruzeci de festivaluri. Marko Grba Singh a studiat Regia de Film la Facultatea de Artă Dramatică din Belgrad, a participat la FID Campul în 2014 şi a regizat mai multe videoclipuri pentru trupe rock sârbeşti.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
„Before this film, I made a short documentary about one immigration centre in western Serbia. It was some kind of a video diary showing the condition of immigrants in my country month by month. After that I felt it was necessary to focus not only on groups of people but on a few characters and their destiny. Combining my fiction with their reality, Abdul and Hamza are, in a way both individuals and represent a huge collective at the same time. I met Abdul and Hamza in one camp near Belgrade. They were willing to cooperate since the beginning and became a crucial part of the crew. Every scene in the film is rewritten with them though conversation in order to be more realistic. They certainly know much more about their own problems and ways than me. My goal was to make them totally independent and to fight for their cause with dignity. Abdul and Hamza are not puppets, they are much stronger than us. There are many scenes of people sleeping in the film. Every dream triggers another reality, and we often shift from their story to the story of the film crew and vice versa. My character is there, as one of the main parts of the film crew, trying to catch any evidence of their existence, many months after they vanished. It is too personal.“ (Marko Grba Singh)