My Brother in a Foreign Land I Moj Brate i Tudjini

Inventur - Metzstraße 11 / Inventory - Metzstraße 11
Želimir Žilnik, FRG 1975, 9 min.

Abschied / Farewell
Želimir Žilnik FRG 1975, 9 min.

Gastarbeiter
Bogdan Žižić, FRG / Yugoslavia, 1977, 17 min.

Specijalni vlakovi / Special Trains 
Krsto Papić, Yugoslavia 1972, 12 min.

Na Objedu / At Lunch
Vefik Hadžismajlović, Yugoslavia 1972, 9 min.

Halo München / Hello München
Krsto Papić, Yugoslavia 1967, 13 min.

Dernek / Party 
Zoran Tadić, Yugoslavia 1975, 12 min.

This short film program brings together documentary works from the early and mid-1970s made by Yugoslav directors associated with the Zagreb and Belgrade film clubs and the documentary film school in Sarajevo. From a range of perspectives, the films not only address the problematic selection and recruitment processes of so-called guest workers, but their everyday living conditions in Germany and the lives of their relatives who remained. The highlight of the program will be a film by Želimir Žilnik, long thought to have been lost, which was recently found in the archives of the Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany (DOMiD). Indeed, the very fact that this film was not adequately preserved – in neither a German nor a Yugoslav national film archive – raises many questions regarding hegemonic film historiography and archiving, and their relationship to themes of migration in both countries.

Diana Nenadić, film critic and editor, has been publishing film reviews and essays in Croatian periodicals since the mid 1980s. As one of few Croatian film critics concerned with documentary and experimental film, she has served as a curator of film programs and retrospectives for various film festivals and exhibitions.