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Afterwar

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Burning buildings in a dense fog, a dead horse on a dusty road, people fleeing through harsh mountain landscapes. Afterwar opens with images from war-torn Kosovo, 1999, as a dark chapter in the history of modern Europe draws to a close. After the war, children sell peanuts and cigarettes on the streets of Pristina in order to survive. They speak to us: 'There's only one reason I'm talking to you. It is my hunger! I'm so hungry, I could eat your money!' In a cinematic testament co-created over 15 years, they transform into adults before our eyes. Yet the child still stares back at us from behind the adult gaze, as the struggle to survive becomes a struggle for a future at all. They confront us with their innermost secrets and desires, while stuck in limbo and haunted by their past. Through a close artistic collaboration with the lead cast -- Xhevahire, Gëzim, Shpresim, and Besnik -- the film moves between raw realism, staged performance, and an existential meditation on the long-term repercussions of war. Any war, anywhere.

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Synopsis Burning buildings in a dense fog, a dead horse on a dusty road, people fleeing through harsh mountain landscapes. Afterwar opens with images from war-torn Kosovo, 1999, as a dark chapter in the history of modern Europe draws to a close. After the war, children sell peanuts and cigarettes on the streets of Pristina in order to survive. They speak to us: 'There's only one reason I'm talking to you. It is my hunger! I'm so hungry, I could eat your money!' In a cinematic testament co-created over 15 years, they transform into adults before our eyes. Yet the child still stares back at us from behind the adult gaze, as the struggle to survive becomes a struggle for a future at all. They confront us with their innermost secrets and desires, while stuck in limbo and haunted by their past. Through a close artistic collaboration with the lead cast -- Xhevahire, Gëzim, Shpresim, and Besnik -- the film moves between raw realism, staged performance, and an existential meditation on the long-term repercussions of war. Any war, anywhere.
Director
Birgitte Stærmose
Producer
Lise Lense-Møller
Screenwriter
Birgitte Stærmose
Production Co
Magic Hour Films
Genre
Documentary, Drama, War
Original Language
Albanian