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Belonging

Bosnia-Herzegovina / Germany, 2016
Duration: medium length

Zejd Coralić, a six-year-old boy from Sarajevo, wasn’t able to enjoy school due to his severe hearing impairment. The Bosnian government is supposed to support the education of children with special needs but oftentimes it fails in this regard and teachers are left on their own to deal with these difficult cases. Fortunately for Zejd, his teacher Sanela Ljumanović was very sensitive to his problem and made an unusual decision: she started to learn sign language together with the entire class. Her actions have not only represented a radical change to Zejd’s situation – the situation of the other children has been fundamentally altered as well.

The film follows the children and the teacher of the class for a whole summer. We get an insight into a group to whom diversity was presented matter-of-factly, not as something special or difficult to deal with. It offers the possibility to reflect more deeply on mechanisms involved in perceiving and including/excluding others.

Directors’ biographies

Judith Beuth

Judith Beuth (born 1983 in Thuringia/GDR) moved to East Berlin in 1989, and later on traveled and worked in former Yugoslavia, Romania and St. Petersburg, Russia. She studied directing at the film academy “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg until 2012 and made documentary and short films in St. Petersburg, Teheran, the Uckermark and Berlin. Her latest projects include a long-term documentary about a lesbian couple fulfilling their wish to have a baby and a collective film about the “rebellion of conscience” in today’s Germany. Besides that, she occasionally gives film workshops.

Jasmin Brutus

Jasmin Brutus is a documentary photographer living in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and has been working for major domestic and international newspapers and magazines. He has received several grants including Ex-changes, sponsored by the German government and SEE New Perspectives supported by World Press Photo and Robert Bosch Stiftung. Lately, Jasmin has been interested in shooting personal stories, videography and documentary filmmaking.

Belonging

Belonging

Bosnia-Herzegovina / Germany, 2016
Duration: medium length

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Judith Beuth

Jasmin Brutus

Judith Beuth and Jasmin Brutus

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Belonging

Belonging

Bosnia-Herzegovina / Germany, 2016 Duration: medium length

Directors

Cinematographer

Location

Partner

Directors’ biographies

Judith Beuth

Jasmin Brutus

Judith Beuth and Jasmin Brutus

Bosnia-Herzegovina / Germany, 2016
Duration: medium length