North American Premiere
A cast of non-actors depict a Czech paramilitary youth camp while an incendiary recording metastasizes antisemitic rhetoric across Europe.
Klez Brandar, Robin Bezrouk, Hilmar Bergson, Leopold Adler, Max Garagić
Bosnia/Herzegovina/
Czech Republic/USA
2025
In Bosnian, Czech, French, German and Serbian with English subtitles
Child abuse, racist content
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Credits & Director
Producer
Zuko Garagić
Screenwriter
Zuko Garagić, Zulfikar Veritić
Cinematography
Edson Bichon, Konstantin Iskrić
Editor
David Ajašić
Production Design
Ronak Desai, Nuel R. Sitompul
Original Music
Elias Garagić
Zuko Garagić
Zuko Garagić’s films — at once expressionist and archival — pursue what he calls “archives of the imagined”, questioning whether history is a vast repository teeming with answers or a bottomless pit that swallows all specificity. He is currently in development of two feature films and in post-production on his second hybrid short, which examines the unresolved deaths of Roma individuals in the Czech Republic in the late 1990s. Garagić graduated summa cum laude from NYU and earned his MFA from Columbia, where he also taught film as a teaching fellow and adjunct professor.
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