Film Screening & Discussion

Film Screening & Discussion
with a glass of wine

Whose is this song? (2003)

Special Guest: Adela Peeva (director)

About the film:

Documentary, 2003, 70 min.
Director: Adela Peeva
Screenplay: Adela Peeva
Producers: Paul Pauwels & Adela Peeva
Cinematography: Zhoro Nedelkov
Editors: Nina Altaparmakova & Jelio Jelev

Synopsis:
A funny, dramatic and tragicomic search for the truth about a Song. A Song that everybody in the Balkans claims it is theirs. A Song that appears as a love song, as a religious hymn and even as a song inciting for battle.

An exciting journey around Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria.

A film showing with a sense of humour some of the typical features of the character of the people on the Balkans, as for example their habit of appropriating all that is good and denying the others the right to possess the same qualities, the same songs, the same customs, the same temperament.

Awards:

Nominated for European Film Academy Award “The Best Documentary 2003 – Prix Arte”

2004 – won FIPRESCI Prize at the Bombay International Documentary, Short and Animation Film Festival