Deza-Femijet (Kosovo 2000)

Kosovo, Spring 2000. Winter is over, but only in a meteorological sense. Rubble and grief. Devastation everywhere on the earth grazed by the sun. Wounds that will never heal, uncertain movements of a new beginning, black and white paradoxes, while broken colour images emerge from memory. Two words, deca e fëmijët, mean "child" in Serbian and Albanian, but they can't find space in the irrational war vocabulary. No doubt children are the most defenceless victims of a fight fomented by hatred. Besarta, Violeta and Edmond, Valdrim, Milijana and Jelena are respectively Serbian and Albanian. The film tells their black and white stories interspersed with some colour Super 8 images filmed by the children themselves.