Sister

The story of Sister is told through a montage of various home-movie and instagram-like smartphone footage captured in the period of 2020 and 2022. In these years, the director, after experiencing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Covid-19 era struggling with the highest pandemic death rate in the world, decides to emigrate and start a new life in Germany.
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Directed by: Zulfikar Filandra
Cinematography: Zulfikar Filandra
Editing: Zulfikar Filandra
Sound: Zulfikar Filandra
Producer: Zulfikar Filandra

About the author:

Zulfikar FIlandra (1989, BIH) is a film and theatre maker from Sarajevo. Currently based in Germany, Educated at Griffith College Dublin, Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo and HFG Karlsruhe. Collaborator and member of several local and several international art collectives, collaborated with all the relevant mainstream cultural institutions in Sarajevo and also active in Sarajevo’s underground art scene. Besides directing, working as a curator, producer, musician, actor, promoter, photographer. As a member of the youngest generation of Bosnian directors his topics touch on legacy of war in Bosnia but also a more intimate experience of living in contemporary times and the position of a small culture like Bosnia in a globalized world.