Isa Qosja
was born in Vuthaj, Montenegro in 1947. Graduated acting from
High school for drama arts in Prishtina, and The Film Academy,
majoring in Film and TV Directing in Belgrade.
1984 Proka
1998 Rojet e mjegulles
2005 Kukumi
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The story
happens in the first couple of days after NATO troops enter
Kosovo. After the signing of the military agreement in Kumanovo,
the uniformed Serb guards, placed at the institution for
mentally challenged people, leave their posts and flee. Everyone
who worked in this institution joined them, leaving the patients
alone without any supervision. Being free give them a chance to
make dreams come true, but they are confronted with a reality
and environment, which is very different in one way or another.
From the moment of getting out of the fences, they are
conflicted with the people that call themselves free. Gradually
this conflict roughens and with it degenerates the meaning of
freedom. There are three main characters, Kukum, Mara and Hasan.
They also move out from institution and split up from the crowd.
They go through their own vicissitudes that makes the essence of
the story. Every one of them has their own dreams, plans and
visions for freedom. They try to incorporate it in this new
environment. But there are a lot of obstacles? Freedom is not
what they imagined. Nobody accepts them.
"When NATO intervented Kosovo and after the war was over, Kosovo
became free. Everyone was thinking that freedom makes possible
for us to do everything we want, going to any place that comes
to your mind, in other words being free. I thought people who
have suffered violence and abuse by the machinery of a notorious
regime would have more understanding for every human being,
every situation? But what really happened?! Instead, they became
cruel, loosing their sympathy, dehumanizing and manifesting
freedom by denying it to the others?a strange kind of freedom.
The film is a metaphor of freedomand postwar people; those who
suspiciously observed everything and the others who need only a
bit of this freedom. Three persons, let them call mental
patients, wish to meet people, to love each other, to make love,
travel by train, smoke? They meet obstacles in fulfilling these
very human needs. While some people make fun of them, the others
suspect that their village might become insane by ?their
insanity?. The free space of these characters becomes narrower
while their desire faints. Ultimately, they don?t get
understood, but they get abused and chased all the time with no
mercy."
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