Dokufest 2018 Overview

Festival:
The 17th Dokufest

Dates:
August 3-11

About:
Approximately 85 documentary features screen at this event in Prizren, Kosovo.

While curating films from all over the world, work from the Balkans takes the spotlight, including: Ivan Ramljak’s HOME OF THE RESISTANCE, about a retirement home for WWII fighters in a small Croatian town; Fisnik Maxhuni and Benoît Goncerut’s ZVICRA, which explores the search for identity by Albanian immigrants in Switzerland; Jelena Maksimović and Dušan Grubin’s TAURUNUM BOY, a Serbian coming of ager; Damir Čučić’s SUMMERHOUSE, about a Croatian radio docudrama author and his subjects; Josip Lukić’s MOMSY, a personal film about the Croatian filmmaker and his mother; and Kreshnik Jonuzi, Luftar Von Rama, and Charlie Askew’s TRIUMPH, which explores the complexities of Eastern European politics through the experiences of the Albanian national soccer team.