He arrives in an expensive car, proud to show off Azra, and willfully ignorant of what’s transpired since his flight from communist rule.Įach individual’s perspective changes, and so do their complicated interrelationships. Divko’s family - so vividly broken and inclined to split into still more pieces when he returns - plainly represents the splintering of the newly democratic nation, affected by factions and traditions, beliefs and betrayals. No one in the film’s Herzegovina is quite open to change or ready to make a choice, though some individuals are feeling more pressured to tolerate it, if not welcome it. The “melting pot” is close to boiling in Cirkus Columbia. In a sense, New York is the world’s biggest melting pot.” Next year, the Festival will be located in Paris, and in years following, other cities around the world. Festival founder Boris Cherdabayev explains that it is also appropriate for this first festival to focus on the effects of globalization to begin in New York, “because it is here that you can see the greatest diversity of cultures living together side by side. Screening 16 feature length movies, fiction and documentary, the DICFF begins 20 October and runs through the 27th at the Quad and the School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York City. Interweaving stories that are at once personal and political, historical and topical, comic and tragic, Danis Tanovic’s Cirkus Columbia is an apt film to open the Dialogue of Cultures International Film Festival. His utter lack of sensitivity and preparedness for anything he encounters makes Divko an obvious stand-in for what’s going wrong as the Yugoslav wars begin grinding in earnest. He’s also reclaimed his house - where Martin and Lucija have been living rent-free - as well as his reputation in the community. Now that the political situation is changing fast, Divko (Miki Manojlovic) has come home from Germany, with a pretty new girlfriend, Azra (Jelena Stupljanin). In part this is because he’s young and careless - as the film opens, he’s waking on the couch where he sleeps outside, birds chirping and his mother Lucija (Mira Furlan) at the ready with breakfast - and in part, it’s because he’s recently been shaken by the return of his father after 20 years away.
“If we’d crushed these bastards, this wouldn’t be happening.” The former communist mayor of a small town in Herzegovina, now feeling bitter in 1991, Leon might actually mean for Martin (Boris Ler) to get a move on, to fight - or maybe flee - the forces closing in on Serbia as they speak.Īs Cirkus Columbia begins, Martin is reluctant to make a decision. “You shouldn’t put off things in life,” Leon (Miralem Zupcevic) advises a young visitor.
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