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This short film programme brings together documentary works from the early and mid-1970s made by Yugoslav directors associated with the Zagreb and Belgrade film clubs and the documentary film school in Sarajevo. From a range of perspectives, the films not only address the problematic selection and recruitment processes of so-called guest workers, but their everyday living conditions in Germany and the lives of their relatives who remained.
One of the highlights of the program is Abschied (Farewell) by Želimir Žilnik, long thought to have been lost, which were recently found in the archives of the Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany (DOMiD) during the research for a film cycle at Sinema Transtopia. Indeed, the very fact that the this film was not adequately preserved – in neither a German nor a Yugoslav national film archive – raises many questions regarding hegemonic film historiography and archiving, and their relationship to themes of migration in both countries.
Programme:
Inventur - Metzstraße 11 (Inventory - Metzstraße 11), dir. Želimir Žilnik, FRG 1975, 9 min.
Abschied (Farewell), dir. Želimir Žilnik, FRG 1975, 9 min.
Specijalni vlakovi (Special Trains), dir. Krsto Papić, Yugoslavia 1972, 12 min.
Na Objedu (At Lunch), dir. Vefik Hadžismajlović, Yugoslavia 1972, 9 min.
Halo München (Hello München), dir. Krsto Papić, Yugoslavia 1967, 13 min.
Dernek (Party), dir. Zoran Tadić, Yugoslavia 1975, 12 min.
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