AFTER THE WAR wins Mediterraneo Video Festival in Italy

After the War, a documentary film by Srđan Keča produced in Atelier Varan Belgrade, has won the first prize of the recently held Mediterraneo Video Festival in Paestum (Salerno, Italy).

The festival jury (Roberto Perpignani, Luigina Di Legro, Alberto Castellano, Dante Albanesi and Bruno Roberti) has offered the following reasons:

“For his simple way of exploring, through the camera, a difficult postwar reality, by listening both its grief and hope.”

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, After the War previously won the Best documentary award of the Balkan Black Box Festival in Berlin, the Audience award of dokumentART in Neubrandenburg and the jury award of the Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade. It took part in more than 20 international film festivals.

In other news, Alone, alone, you should never be alone by Mihajlo Jevtić took part in the Mostar Short Film Festival, while East of Eden by Rajko Petrović and After the War will take part in the competition programme of the 9th Astra Film Festival in Sibiu, Romania, October 22-28, 2007.

Srđan Keča was also a member of the international jury at this year’s dokumentART held in Neubrandenburg, Germany and Stettin, Poland from September 22-27.