Flotel Europa

Synopsis

In 1992, a wave of refugees from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached Denmark. With refugee camps completely full, the Red Cross pulled a giant ship into the canals of Copenhagen. The ship, Flotel Europa, became a temporary home for a thousand people waiting for decisions on their asylum applications. Among them was a young 12-year-old boy, Vladimir, who fled Sarajevo together with his mother and older brother. They spent two years in the limbo of Flotel Europa.

Director Biography

Vladimir Tomić graduated from the media department at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2009.Vladimir debuted as a documentary director with “My Lost Generation” (2009), which was partly autobiographical. Tomic’s third documentary “Flotel Europa” was screened at the Berlinale in 2015, where the film also received a reader’s prize from the newspaper Tagesspiegel.