Original Title: Victory

Year: 2024

Length: 22 min

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Film Category: Short Narrative

Cast & Credits

Director: Zulfikar Filandra

Film Synopsis:

A group of workers is fired from a factory. While some of them prepare to strike, unconvinced and depressed worker VELID (35) wanders around the small town and encounters two young filmmakers, a local and a foreigner, who are shooting a film about the condition of workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The directors offer him a nice amount of money and Velid agrees to an interview. After the interview, Velid is convinced into acting in a love scene with a girl, while screaming anti-government slogans. As the filming progresses, Velid becomes angrier, and the directors become more disrespectful.

Director's Biography

Zulfikar Filandra (1989) is a filmmaker and curator, working as an Archival Curator in HfG Karlsruhe’s Open Resource Center. Zulfikar is also part of the selection team of the Sarajevo Film Festival and the curator of Bosnia’s most recent contemporary art prize: the Next Generation Media Art Award. One strain of his filmmaking is narrative, one strain is based on experimental cinema, archives, poor images, and found footage.

 

FILMOGRAPHY

2020 MINOTAUR, an experimental feature-length essay film

2019 BIG LEAP, a short film

2014 WALL II, short film