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Kosovo: “Cinematic Darkness Knows No Nation”

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Arts & Culture, Ethnicity & Race, Film, International Relations, Travel

At Kosovo 2.0 blog, Belgrade-based journalist Dušan Komarčević writes – here [1] and here [2] – about his July 2012 trip to Prizren, Kosovo, to attend the DOKUFEST [3] International Documentary and Short Film Festival:

[…] The cinemas were filled with movie lovers from Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, … Serbs and Albanians together!, will exclaim in unison ethnocentric builders committed to multiply the concept of the Berlin Wall in as many locations as possible. Unlike diplomats from Belgrade and Prishtina, who are seated around the same table by some Brussels bureaucrat […], moviephiles don’t need any intermediaries. Of course, with the exception of celluloid film. […]