Country: Serbia
Year: 2015
Duration: 49'
Abdul and Hamza are hiding in the mountains on Serbo-Romanian border. Armed with a GPS, they are preparing their escape. Full of expectations, they exchange confidences about their families back in Somalia. As they await the right moment, they live hand to mouth in an abandoned house. Local tour guide talks about a castle nearby where two partisans were hiding in WWII. Milan is talking about Yugoslav wars on the bench. Film crew records weird sounds of military planes over the mountain. Each man, Abdul and Hamza, exist in this place to which they don’t belong. Abdul eats lemons, Hamza is carving his name on a rock. And when it is time to go, they’ll disappear.
Biography
film director
Marko Grba Singh
(Belgrade, Serbia, 1988) lived in London and is currently on Ph.D. studies at the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts. His shorts documentaries At Least We’ve Met (2012) and Pale (2013) were presented at the Visions du réel in Nyon and then in over forty festivals around the world. In 2014 he attended the Fid campus in Marseille and the following year presented the medium-length film Abdul & Hamza at the same festival, then selected at the Torino Film Festival. His short film If I Had It My Way I would Never Leave (2017) was presented at Cannes, in the ACID section. Since 2018 he has been artistic director of the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kasno smo se sreli (At Least We’ve Met, cm, doc, 2012), Pale (cm, doc, 2013), Abdul & Hamza (mm, 2015), If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave (cm, doc, 2015), Stars of Gaomeigu (cm, 2017), Tesaurus (cm, 2020), Rampart (doc, 2021).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Marko Grba Singh
fotografia/cinematography
Marko Milovanovic, Stasa Bukumirovic
montaggio/film editing
Jelena Maksimovic
suono/sound
Milan Andjelovic, Branko Topalovic
interpreti/cast
Abdul Akin, Hamza Amash
produttore/producer
Nevena Tomic
produzione/production
studAVP
Marko Grba Singh
fotografia/cinematography
Marko Milovanovic, Stasa Bukumirovic
montaggio/film editing
Jelena Maksimovic
suono/sound
Milan Andjelovic, Branko Topalovic
interpreti/cast
Abdul Akin, Hamza Amash
produttore/producer
Nevena Tomic
produzione/production
studAVP
