Zulfikar Filandra

A film essay MINOTAUR covers 15 years of the author's life. Through various formats of private archives, from cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, segments from the author's previous films, vacation videos, we experience a Proustian journey through fragments of the recorded and cathartic confrontation with transience, dear people, poetry of small things and growing up.

Velid, a worker at an explosives factory in the vicinity of Goražde, is fired along with several of his colleagues. While other workers are protesting and starting a strike against the factory Velid falls into depression and goes wandering alone around the city and the banks of the Drina river. Two young and aspiring film directors who are visiting Bosnia bump into him and decide to engage him in their film. This develops in a painful way.

A filmmaking process helps one filmmaker son deal with his emotionally closed father.

The story of the film Sister is told through a montage of various home videos and Instagram footage shot on a smartphone between 2020 and 2022. During these years, the author experiences Bosnia and Herzegovina in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is struggling with the highest mortality rates from the virus in the world. Also, during the same period, the author decides to leave Bosnia and emigrate to a new life in Germany.