This is the message that director Sinisa Galic wants to send with his film Open cage, our screening choice for diversity month. This Sunday we invite you to find out if he succeeds.
The film mixes characters and perspectives from the East and the West: a young photojournalist from Berlin meets a young woman from Belgrade, who dreams of a better life abroad. Beyond their apparent differences, the two young women also have things in common, and the film strives to illustrate this shared humanity. They are both searching for something, a search that their background and history dictates.
‘We are all kind of connected, even if we think we are opposing. We have to be conscious of the similarities between us,’ says Sinisa Galic in an interview with Sabisa Paisa last week.
The connectedness we see on screen was mirrored in the film crew on set, with a team of over 40 people from different countries: Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Turkey and USA working on it.
Book you pass now and join us to celebrate Harmony Week with a film.