Sunday 19/11/2000

Director Michko Netchak who participates in the Balkan Survey section with his film Dog's Life, wants to denounce war in any way possible saying that it isn't a football game since there are never any winners.

Starring in the film is a19 year old Serb who lives in a Muslim neighborhood as a refugee in his own country since the Serbs as well as the Muslims reject him. He devotes himself to the only thing he's left with, which is his dog. As the Yugoslav director said in his press conference, he wanted the film to operate in two different levels, the conscious and the subconscious in order to show how a war can permanently etch a person's life.

In his film, The Punishment, Goran Rebic presents his friends, the lost generation that sacrificed ten years of its life that were thrown away by the Yugoslav propaganda. As the director said, he grew up and lived in Vienna when the bombing started. He decided to protest through his film since he couldn't participate in any other way and refused to demonstrate by using national symbols.

Rebic mentioned the political changes in Yugoslavia, saying that the public revolt and the peaceful transition to Kosturica's government allow the younger generation to look forward to a prosperous future.