Synopsis
In the heart of the Balkans lives a small community of people of Slavic Origin who have converted to Islam, and who have no real country of their own. What had kept them together and protected them for centuries was their home, Gora. The Kosovo war brought unrest into these fairy-tale regions. The Gorani, who fought mainly on the Serbian side, are on their own now, surrounded by an Albanian majority and their own dark memories of the war.
Rewards, festivals and diffusions
DokumentART
The Balkan Black Box Festival
Festival méditerranéen
Zolotoy Vityaz/Golden Knight
Festival of Documentary Film CRONOGRAF
Festival of Ethnologic Film
Alternative Film/Video Festival
Documentary and Short Film Festival
About : Workshops in the Balkan region
In the 2000s, workshops are organized in Belgrade, for the filmmakers from the region. The workshop re-starts in 2021, and the Varan Balkan association is created in 2023 by former trainees.
The documentary in your own home
Find out about new films by sifting through our media library to find all the films made in our workshops since 1978.