06/08/2023
The film had its world premiere this Saturday evening at DokuFest and its screening was accompanied by a question and answer session between director Tea Vidovic Dalipi and the audience.
The film is triggered and developed on a personal event lived and extended over the time period of ten years. The Croatian director Vidovic 10 years ago chose to share her life with Mirsad, a boy from the Roma community from Ferizaj. With their marriage begins an ordeal of exchanges and situations that sometimes seem to border on the absurd.
Two young people from two different social and cultural contexts with the desire to develop their lives together as a married couple, between the different perspectives of the two families, their personal experiences and opinions.
"Snajka: Diary of Expectations" managed to undoubtedly exceed the expectations of the audience at its premiere, accompanied by prolonged ovations and questions from all the curious attendees.
Asked by those present in the cinema, the director showed how she had tried to document important moments of her marriage through filming, trying to maintain a balance between the desire to bring cinematic material and the need to maintain an ethic by not overexposing the characters' lives. Vidovic said that the editing of the film lasted about a year, ending in several preliminary versions. In the final version, a number of scenes were cut which, according to her, overloaded the film and affected the privacy of its real characters.
More than a narrative in the life of a couple, the film is a call to awareness about the way people see each other, to find the common points, and to develop community life despite the differences that actually live only in the minds of people, all of us. Really, do divisions between people exist anywhere else?
By: Ana Haxhimali
Photo: Elmedina Arapi
