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22: 276:, exercises an exceptional talent to capture a kaleidoscopy of life in the post-war Serbia, after the NATO bombing in 1999. With this film Silva strives to crackle beneath the façade of ordinary lives, opening up a whole landscape of disillusionment and hope, humor and pain, and above all else succeeds in vividly capturing the bruised acceptance of a people in the aftermath of war. With its unique multilayered structure 256:
deftly juxtaposes the everyday and the exceptional, the sublime and the horrific, into a film that challenges us to reconsider what we thought we knew about war, about humanitarianism and about our own good intentions. It challenges us as students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences to
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remains open to interpretation and most importantly, each of the seventy-eight Rhapsodies is its own reality. Kudos for a filmmaker who exercises a profound commitment to the proposition that film is a vital manifestation and a document of the political volatile time we live in."
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is a "ruminative experimental mosaic", exploring the Kosovo War through encounters with recovering civilians, observational moments, and Silva's own reflections on his various trips through war-torn
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is a beautiful and disturbing film, a film whose afterimage should provoke us to think about war and humanitarianism in a more sophisticated, and ultimately more compassionate way."
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interrogate our own process of meaning making - how we come to know what we do about war, and especially how we come to know and consume the pain and suffering of others.
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Best Documentary, Festival Cinemateca Uruguaya, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2008
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11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film Leeds, 2009
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granted access into the territory that was formerly known as
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DokumentART Festival, Neubrandenburg, Germany, 2007
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