CHILDREN - KOSOVO 2000

Documentary, 90 minutes,
black & white and colour,
35mm, (1,66), Dolby SR
Original language: Albanian, Serb with English subtitles

With:
Besarta Jashari,Edmond és Valdrin Iliaz Ruçi, Lavdije Beqir Feka, Violeta Mehmeti and her brothers, Elfie Buletini, Dusica and Veljko Masic Jelena and Miljana Vasic

Screenplay: Ferenc Moldoványi
Director of photography: András Nagy
Sound engineer: Istvan Sipos
Editor: Márta Révész
Original music composed by: Tibor Szemző
Producer -Director:

An Engram Film and Hungarian Television coproduction with the participation of RTBF (Belgian Television)
Engram Film 2001
Supported by: Soros Documentary Fund (OSI-New York), UNICEF (IBIS-New York), UNESCO, National Radio and Television Commission (Hungary),Motion Pictures Public Foundation of Hungary,  Kodak Hungary,

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Kosovo in the spring of 2000. Winter is over but in a meteorological sense only. Ruins and pain. The marks of devastation in the sunny landscape. Wounds that never heal, the hesitating , vague gestures of a new beginning. Paradoxes. In black and white, with the broken images of memory imprints in colour.

Two words: deca and fëmijët , they mean children in Serb and Albanian. These expressions have no place in the irrational dictionary of war.
It is the children though who are the most defenceless victims of this war governed by mad hatred. Their suffering has become an indelible chapter of the chronicle at the end of the century, the dawn of the new millennium.

Besarta, Violeta, Edmond and Valdrin, Miljana and Jelena are Albanian and Serb children, the film tells their story in black and white with colour Super 8 images shot by the children themselves. 

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 Children-Kosovo 2000 downloadable Press File