Featuring: Desanka Zherka, Avni Zherka, Dukagjin Gorani, Halil Matoshi, Azem Vllasi, Bujar Bukoshi

Cinematography: Mumin Jashari
Editor: Stefan Ramírez Pérez
Music: Nick Powell
Sound mix: Jochen Jezussek
Producer: Siniša Mitrović
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

Amid the political turmoil in Kosovo during the country’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, a number of contributors – including politicians, intellectuals, public figures, and ordinary people – recount in Serbo-Croat the reasons why they no longer speak this formerly official language. The community’s fraught relationship toward its history and identity in the context of the Yugoslav wars of the nineties points to wider questions of trauma, memory and loss. The film continues a line of Collins’ practice situated in geopolitical regions afflicted by Western (neo-)imperialism, its violent histories and contested legacies.

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• Programm Programme: Losing What is Lost