The Land (2021) Dir. Marko Šipka

The Land is a haunted place between the two worlds; living and dead, where history and mythology converge. This territory named Krajina which means frontier; or the edge is the land given by the Habsburg emperor in 17th century to the Serbian refugees from all over the Balkans to settle down and defend the border from the Ottoman empire. Today, formally the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this land is still the imaginary line between the two civilizations, between east and west. It is a bewitched space, a dystopian universe where the ghosts return from all the past battles. The last Bosnian war in is, had left only an apocalyptic landscape suggesting that this war will be the last one, since soon there will be no one remain to fight.

The Land follows the last five living people for whom this small Krajina village once used to be home. They return here only to die, to burry someone, or to meet the spirits of their loved ones which are freely roaming the mountains. While visiting the ruins of their once homes, they are trying to rebuilt the memories of their past lives. Those memories told in the form of whispering fairy tales become a history of an never ending war.

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