Follow Maja and Nataša, a first generation German and British Serb, as they travel the country together for the first time without their families. These two strangers, brought together by their shared Serbian ties, embark on a journey of discovery, posing the question: 
‘What makes you Serbian?’ 
 

Accompanied by the film savvy co-directors of Potion Mixtures Productions, William and Danny, the team took off on 11th June 2015 to Serbia for five weeks of on-location filming. Travelling by car to the corners of the country, they sought to put into focus the myriad of faces which make up the quilt of Serbian society today. Breaking from the traditional reportage of Serbia by the Western media, the team aim to provide a new frame for a new portrait of Serbia, a portrait painted by the words and worlds of Serbs today.

 

‘Film acts as a valuable means for exposing the prejudices
which circulate between Serbia and the West’
– Jolan Bogdan

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Thank you to the Norwich Norfolk Novi Sad Associations, our indepedent stakeholders and all those contributing to the project. You are an integral part to the first ever English-speaking documentary which does not limit Serbs to the paradigms of violence and nationalism, but gives Serbs the autonomy and authority to define themselves.

 

Currently in post-production, get in contact and let's collaborate:

 help us reintroduce the West to a multi-facietated Serbia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE ORIGINAL INCENTIVES

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• To discover how Serbs define themselves today by providing Serbs with the opportunity to present a Western audience with a different portrait of Serbia from that previously formed in mainstream media.
   

• To use an artistic visual approach through film and ethnographically informed commentary in order to emotionally and intellectually engage a Western audience, asking them to question their perspectives of Serbia.
   

• To highlight issues of identity for first/second generation Serbs living in the West, i.e. Serbs living in Diaspora.
   

• To raise general awareness of Serbia in the West.

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  To motivate creative collaborations across European borders, and build bridges notably between

  Norwich, Hamburg and Serbia.
   

• To use this documentary as a basis of reflection on Western society’s relationship to Eastern Europe and vice versa.