AFTER THE WAR Wins Golden Black Box in Berlin

At the just closed Balkan Black Box Festival in Berlin, AFTER THE WAR, a film by Srđan Keča produced in Atelier Varan Belgrade, has won the Golden Black Box, the top award in the documentary film category.

Balkan Black Box takes place in Berlin since 1999, with the aim of bringing the culture of Southeast Europe closer to the German audience – by exploring the “black box” of the Balkans. The main focus of the festival is on the film competition, which invites a selection of significant recent feature, short and documentary films from the region.

Among the nominees for the Golden Black Box documentary award were films like Totally Personal by Nedžad Begović (2005 Oscar nomination), Chicken Elections by Goran Radovanović, Sevdah – The Bridge that Survives by Mira Erdevicki, Vukovar – The Final Cut by Janko Baljak, Made in Serbia by Mladen Đorđević and The Shutka Book of Records by Aleksandar Manić.

Filmed in a small Gorani village in southern Kosovo and supported with the funds of the Embassy of France in Belgrade, European Agency for Reconstruction and the Fund for an Open Society, Srđan Keča’s After the War has so far been screened at 15 international film festivals, and has previously won the Audience Award at DokumentART in September 2006 in Germany, as well as the jury award of the Alternative Film/Video Festivala in December 2005 in Belgrade.