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SYNOPSIS

Filmmaker Nataša Urban finds her father’s hiking diaries and begins to use them to trace her own family history in disintegrating Yugoslavia. With her fascinating film she asks questions about memory, repression and forgetting. “Succinct observations on daily life meet beguiling landscapes that appear imprinted with the uncanny. In retracing the old walking routes and in Urban’s conversations with relatives, memories come flashing back: of unspeakable poverty in the former Yugoslavia, of minor escalations of violence in the neighbourhood, right through to the atrocities of Srebrenica. Urban skilfully combines analogue film images of her family and familiar surroundings with archive material, so that the boundaries between the personal and the political—past and present—seem blurred.” (IFFF Dortmund/Cologne)