Belgrad Backspin

Belgrad Backspin

24 - Best Short Documentary Moritz Siebert, Anne Misselwitz Germany, Documentary, 31'

After their deportation from Germany, a group of teenagers of Roma descent suddenly has to integrate into life in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, a city they actually only know from TV. They do not speak the language and, being gypsies, they are often discriminated against. They find release and new friends in the break dance scene. There, it does not matter who you are, as long as you can make the right moves. In this student film from the Potsdam Film School, three friends candidly tell about their lives in Germany, where they spent most of their childhood, and their day-to-day lives in Belgrade.

Belgrad Backspin
Film block: Archive block
Screening:
  • Language
  • Country Germany
  • Genre Documentary
  • Year of creation 2005
  • Duration 31'
Moritz Siebert, Anne Misselwitz
Director Moritz Siebert, Anne Misselwitz

Anne Misselwitz was born in 1977 in Jena, German Democratic Republic. She is a cinematographer and director, known for Belgrad Backspin (2005), #Female Pleasure (2018) and Come to My Voice (2014). 

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1973. He initially began studying medicine and cultural anthropology in Berlin before completing studies in documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School in the UK. THOSE WHO JUMP (LES SAUTEURS), his first feature-length documentary, was selected at the Berlinale Forum in 2016.

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