Flotacija – EN

In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is tied to both does their best to ensure the survival of their culture. Lifelong miner Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by ensuring the rights of fellow mine-worker families.
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Written and directed by: Alesandra Tatić, Eluned Zoe Aiano
Cinematography: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Milica Drakulić, Vincent Laurin
Editing: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Marija Kovačina
Sound: Bojan Palikuća
Producenti: Miloš Ljubomirović, Greta Rauleac
Production: Servia Film, Wild Pear Arts
Festivals and Awards: AJB DOC FF: Special mention (2023), goEast (2023), Beldocs (2023), Verzio FF (2023)

About the author:

Eluned Zoë Aiano is a filmmaker, editor and translator with a background in Visual Anthropology whose work is generally centred on Central/Eastern Europe. Her short All Her Dying Lovers, an animated documentary made in collaboration with Anna Benner, premiered at Hot Docs and was published on the New York Times Op Docs section. She attended IFDA Academy 2022. She has been selected for various residencies, including the Wapping Artist Residency in Berlin, the Pépinières Européennes de Création residency in Quebec.

Alesandra Tatić is a visual anthropologist based in France. Her ethnographic fieldwork is global, yet mostly focused on the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Alesandra works with and for the women’s labour movement, exploring feminist resistance, and migration phenomena. Extending feminist collaborative work methods from academia and activism to filmmaking, she co-founded the Wild Pear Arts collective. Her academic work has been published in Journal des anthropologues, and Nuevo mundo, nuevos mundos, among others. Alesandra is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).