Burners

Synopsis

As Mustafa, a troubled former running champion, seizes his last chance to purchase residency papers through a shady dealer, he encounters ambitious young Reda, who dreams of a singing career in a European country. While Mustafa clings to his final lifeline, he witnesses Reda succumb to the system that once shattered his own dreams.

Director Biography

Aulona Fetahaj was born in Kosovo, grew up in Bruges and now she lives (mainly) in Brussels and works everywhere between Belgium and Kosovo. She studied film at Sint-Lukas Brussels, where she made the films She Asked Me Where I Was From and her graduation film passé imparfait, for which she also received a VAF Wildcard. She works as a filmmaker, technician and sound person on various projects and in the meantime continues her search to find an understandable (cinematic) language in which she can talk about the notions of home, but also of displacement. About feeling like a stranger, but at the same time belonging somewhere. And investigates how time, or perhaps memory, plays a role in (re)building these identities.