An intimate look at Gypsy refugees in a Belgrade suburb who make a living by transforming Citroën’s classic 2cv and Dyana cars into Mad Max-like recycling vehicles, which they use to collect cardboard, bottles and scrap metal. These modern horses are much more efficient than the cart-pushing competition, but even more important -- they also mean freedom, hope and style for their crafty owners. Even the car batteries are used as power generators in order to get some light, watch TV and recharge mobiles! Almost an alchemist’s dream come true! But the police doesn’t always find these strange vehicles funny…
"One of the two funny films this year at IDFA” – Peter Wintonick
“If Mitic had focused only on the terrible misery these people live in, the film would have been unbearable. Instead, you never know whether you should cry after you laugh, or the other way around.”
– Sara Hultman, Goteborg Film Festival
“The most copied film on the Balkan black market” – Nacional weekly, Croatia
Main festivals & awards: Amsterdam (IDFA), Goteborg Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, RomaDocFest (audience award), Pula Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival (human rights award), Dokufest Prizren (best documentary), Dokument2 Glasgow, Docupolis Barcelona, Zagreb Film Festival, Astra Film Fest Sibiu (best central & eastern european documentary), Cinemambiente Torino, Jihlava Documentary Festival, DokMa Maribor, Tirana Film Festival, Budapest Versions Festival, Gypsy Film Festival Skopje (best screenplay), Belgrade EthnoFilmFest (new ethno award), Berlin Europe in Motion, Solothurn Film Days, World Social Forum Porto Alegre, 1001 Documentary Film Festival Istanbul, Bilan du cinéma ethnographique Paris, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Fajr Film Festival Teheran, Wiesbaden Go East Film Festival (best documentary), Ecocinema Athens, Ecofilms Rhodes, Ecocine Salvador de Bahia, Mediawave Gyor (best documentary), Tartu Worldfilm Festival, Cronograf Doc Festival Chisinau (UNICEF prize), Yerevan Film Festival, DerHumAlc Argentina, Valdivia Film Festival Chile, Sucre Film Festival Bolivia, Meetings in Siberia Novosibirsk (best film), Kansas City Film Festival, Karachi Film Festival, Jeevika Film Festival New Delhi (special mention), Tampere Film Festival, London Gypsy Film Festival, Other Worlds Are Breathing Tour (Denmark, Australia, India, Kenya), South-East European Film Fest Los Angeles, Riddu Riddu Fest Tromso, Refugee Film Festival Tokyo & Cairo, San Gio Fest Verona (best social documentary), Urban TV Festival Madrid (best film), DOCSDF Mexico City, Migration Fest Taiwan, Watch Docs Warsaw, New York Gypsy Film Festival, Srebrenica Doc Film Festival…
Screened in theatres: Italy (Docume Network; Ecocinema), Croatia (Clubture, Dokukino), Amsterdam (Rialto), Berlin (Babylon Mitte), London (Blue Elephant), Vienna (Film Archiv, Top Kino), Ljubljana (Kino Dvor), Bern (Lichtspiel), Salzburg (Romavideodrom), Belgrade (Kinoteka, Dom Omladine, DKSG), Kustendorf (Stanley Kubrick Theater)…
Broadcasters: SVT, UR (Sweden), YLE FST (Finland), ARD/BR (Germany), RTSI (Switzerland), RAI 3 (Italy), ERR (Estonia), LTV (Latvia), TV Slovenia, HRT (Croatia), RTRS, BHT1, FTV (Bosnia), Kanal5 (Macedonia), B92 & 24 local TV stations (Serbia), Top Channel (Albania), Al Jazeera English (satellite)
SCREENING FORMAT : DIGIBETA / BETA SP, 45 min.
In Serbian, with English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German and Korean subtitles
Filmed, edited, directed and produced by Boris Mitić
© 2004 Dribbling Pictures
boris@dribblingpictures.com, dribblingpictures.com, +381.63.7715.241
