Jesus Figueroa, @Thisfunktional of ThisFunktional.com, talks with Filmmaker Birgitte Stærmose about Documentary film AFTERWAR, available for audiences nationwide November 17 through December 1 as part of DOC NYC’s incredible virtual screening experience.
Burning buildings in a dense fog, a dead horse on a dusty road, people fleeing through harsh mountain landscapes.
Afterwar opens with images from war-torn Kosovo, 1999, as a dark chapter in the history of modern Europe draws to a close.
After the war, children sell peanuts and cigarettes on the streets of Pristina in order to survive.
They speak to us: ‘There’s only one reason I’m talking to you. It is my hunger! I’m so hungry, I could eat your money!’
In a cinematic testament co-created over 15 years, they transform into adults before our eyes.
Yet the child still stares back at us from behind the adult gaze, as the struggle to survive becomes a struggle for a future at all.
They confront us with their innermost secrets and desires, while stuck in limbo and haunted by their past.
Through a close artistic collaboration with the lead cast – Xhevahire, Gëzim, Shpresim, and Besnik – the film moves between raw realism, staged performance, and an existential meditation on the long-term repercussions of war.
Any war, anywhere.
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