18 April, 2020


In light of the current COVID-19 situation that is unfolding across the world, DokuFest announces a daily film screening of a short film produced through our Documentary Film Production Centre, until the current situation ends.

Film Screening Day 33

A LUCKY DAY by Dija Krasniqi & Husamedin Luma

NJË DITË ME FAT / A LUCKY DAY from DokuFest on Vimeo.

A Lucky Day from DokuFest on Vimeo

Year of Production: 2012

Length: 20 min.

A day in the life of Rrahman Beqiri, a miner in the vast industrial complex near Kosovo’s divided city of Mitrovica. Beqiri, a veteran of the famed 1989 strike that signaled the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, wanders the mines deep tunnels and wide valleys that surround it, recalling the past while ruminating on Kosovo’s uneasy future.

Produced through “Human Rights Film Factory – Stories From the Kosovo Margins” a project aimed at emerging filmmakers from Kosovo, Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro. The program was funded by the EU and managed by the European Union Office in Kosovo and implemented by DokuFest.