Country: Denmark, Serbia
Year: 2015
Duration: 70'
In 1992, a wave of Bosnian refugees fleeing from the war arrived in Denmark in search of political asylum. One of them was twelve-year-old Vladimir, accompanied by his mother and older brother; the Red Cross found accommodations for them at the Flotel Europa, a floating hotel anchored in Copenhagen’s port. Twenty years later, Vladimir decides to put his hand to the video cassettes shot by his family and other residents of the hotel.
Biography
film director
Vladimir Tomic
Vladimir Tomic (Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 1980) lives and works in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 2009. He debuted in 2003 with the short Dead Nature and Movements, part of a trilogy along with The Pianist (2003) and The Mailman (2004). He then produced other short and medium-length films which combine video art and live filming. The principal theme of his work is the human and universal tension created by changes in social structures.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dead Nature and Movements (cm, doc., 2003), The Pianist (cm, doc., 2003), The Mailman (cm, doc., 2004), Echo (cm, doc., 2005), The Valley of Shadows (cm, doc., 2006), My Lost Generation (cm, doc., 2009), Unfinished Journeys (mm, doc., 2012), Flotel Europa (doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“Through the time of making Flotel Europa I felt as I relived that period of my life as I used my personal story of a twelve-year-old kid who was trying to find his place and live a normal life on a refugee ship, when not much of what was around him was normal. I fell in to a space between time where refugees often find themselves when forced to leave their home in search of new stable ground. […] Through this small personal story I tried to tell a much bigger story, of how Yugoslavia fell apart while I was jerking off.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
Vladimir Tomic
montaggio/film editing
Srdjan Keca
suono/sound
Alex Pavlovic
produttori/producers
Srdjan Keca, Selma Jusufbegovic
Vladimir Tomic
montaggio/film editing
Srdjan Keca
suono/sound
Alex Pavlovic
produttori/producers
Srdjan Keca, Selma Jusufbegovic
