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saturday may 25 | 3:00 pm
Community Sponsors: Vancouver International
Film Festival & Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
CHILDREN Kosovo 2000 (Aeya / Femijet)
Director: Ferenc Moldovanyi (Hungary, 2001, 90 min, 35 mm film)
It is Kosovo in the spring of 2000.
Winter is over, but the ruins of war mar the sunny landscape. Paradoxes
are everywhere - in this sophisticated high-tech world, ethnic hatred
drives the country apart; hesitant gestures of new beginnings live
alongside wounds that may never heal.
Two words, aeya and femijet "children" in Serb
and Albanian have no place in the irrational dictionary of war.
Yet it is children who have been the most impressionable and defenceless
victims of this region's devastating conflict. Besarta, Violeta,
Edmond, Valdrin, Miljana and Jelena are Albanian and Serb children.
In this remarkable collaborative work, black and white film tells
their stories, while fragmented Super 8 colour images present memories
shot by the children themselves.
These encounters with the impact of war are not
easy, the suffering these children speak of, almost unbearable.
Yet in the midst of such pain, we find yet another paradox, a testament
to human strength - a phone-in radio show hosted by a young Albanian
girl, urging children from both sides of the conflict to call in
from around the country and share their feelings and thoughts. The
stories of these children cast a dark shadow over the end of a century,
yet a young girl's determination to bring people closer through
communication offers a ray of hope as this troubled region enters
a new millennium.
Running time: 90 minutes
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