A MINORITY REPORT
KOSOVO MINORITIES EIGHT YEARS AFTER
Italy 2007 • Director: Stefano Giantin • 52 minutes • English/Serbian with English Subtitles
Festivals: UNAFF 2007, Mittelfest (Italy), Doc 5 (Scotland)
Kosovo is a region of roughly 11,000 square kilometres located in the south of the Balkan Peninsula. It is inhabited by around 2.2 million people, 90 percent of them Albanians. Although technically part of Serbia, Belgrade has had no de-facto authority on the province since 1999. In that year, NATO launched an air campaign against Yugoslavia in order to stop the violence perpetrated against the local Albanian population by the Milosevic regime.
In June 1999, following the three-month NATO military campaign against Yugoslavia, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) was established. UNMIK was the first peace-building operation ever based on the idea of an UN administration fully governing a post-conflict territory.
During the first year of the establishment of UNMIK, over 240,000 members of minorities – mostly Serbs, Roma and Gorani – fled Kosovo. Hundreds of those who stayed were killed, kidnapped or otherwise brutally persecuted for not belonging to the majority community.
A Minority Report is the result of more than two years of research and filming in the UN administered province of Kosovo. The film analyses the human rights situation of Kosovo minorities after eight years of international administration, through interviews with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), refugees and returnees, as well as with the international civil servants that have ruled the province for the last seven years. Those who returned have found their properties destroyed or occupied. They live in ghettoes dispersed throughout Kosovo, often without access to basic services. Threats, harassments and isolation are part of the daily life of returnees.
Screenings
| Wellington | Saturday 10 May, 6.00pm | Tuesday 13 May, 8.15pm |
| Auckland | Saturday 17 May, 6.00pm | Tuesday 20 May, 8.15pm |
| Christchurch | Saturday 24 May, 6.00pm | Tuesday 27 May, 8.15pm |
| Dunedin | Saturday 31 May, 6.00pm | Tuesday 3 June, 8.15pm |
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2008 Dates
Wellington 8 - 16 May
Paramount Theatre
Auckland 15 - 23 May
Rialto Newmarket
Christchurch 22 - 30 May
Regent on Worcester
Dunedin 29 May - 6 June
Rialto Dunedin