Asja and Zoran, both in their mid-40s, meet one another on a Saturday afternoon at a speed dating event in Sarajevo in a brutalist hotel from the 1980s. A jaunt to a retro-futuristic setting where a retro-futuristic event is taking place. In successive rounds, couples ask each other guided questions about favourite colours and tastes and preferred seasons. In choreographed narrative flows, curtains then fall between the participants, round by round, revealing painful ordeals from their past. Tensions between sympathy and guilt loom like chasms in Sarajevo, which was besieged for 1425 days between 1992 and 1996. Teona Strugar Mitevska tells a story based on true events, a story about chance encounters that revive bygone traumas. NAJSREЌNIOT ČOVEK NA SVETOT is about the impossibility of connections, about the amorphous perpetuation of war, about love and absurdity. A cinematic love poem to a city and its open wounds.
Credits
Screenplay: Teona Strugar Mitevska, Elma Tataragic
Cast: Jelena Kordić Kuret, Adnan Omerovic, Labina Mitevska, Ana Kostovska, Ksenija Marinković, Izudin Bajrović
Cinematography: Virginie Saint-Martin
Editing: Per K. Kirkegaard
Intro
Intro by God’s Entertainment
