Kosovo: Can You Imagine? Explained

Kosovo: Can You Imagine?
Director:Boris Malagurski
Producer:Brian Mitchell
Starring:Lewis MacKenzie
James Byron Bissett
Michel Chossudovsky
Music:Filip Borac
Mihaela Cristina Istrate
Kevin Macleod
Boris Malagurski
Editing:Boris Malagurski
Studio:Malagurski Cinema
Runtime:30 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:English
Serbian
Albanian

Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is a 2009 documentary film directed by Serbian Canadian Boris Malagurski about the plight of Serb communities living in Kosovo at the time the documentary was filmed. Former Canadian general Lewis MacKenzie, former Canadian diplomat James Byron Bissett, former UNMIK officer John Hawthorne and economist Michel Chossudovsky appear in the film.

Synopsis

The film gives a brief account of Kosovo's history, starting from the Battle of Kosovo, up to the UN administration, which existed after 1999, when, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days to halt a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo.[1] It includes claims about the rights that Kosovo Albanians had during socialist Yugoslavia and parallels between the Kosovo Liberation Army and the separatist Front de libération du Québec by retired Canadian General Lewis Mackenzie. Former Canadian ambassador James Byron Bissett claims, that in the years following the war, many Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed, while a large number of their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed. After that, economist Michel Chossudovsky discusses an alleged link between Kosovo's military and political leadership and organized crime.

The film presents most of the Kosovo Serbs as internally displaced, some of them living in enclaves, in small camps in Kosovo. The film follows the stories of several Serb victims.

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090305133703/http://kosovo-film.com/about Official website for "Kosovo: Can You Imagine?", Malagurski Cinema, 2009
  2. Web site: 2009 winners of Silver Palm . Mexico International Film Festival . 6 September 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120427215630/http://www.mexicofilmfestival.com/Festival_2007/past_winners/2009_Silver_Palm_Winners.aspx . April 27, 2012 .
  3. http://www.rtv.rs/sr/vesti/kultura/film/2009_05_11/vest_130442.jsp RTV - Film Borisa Malagurskog nagrađen na festivalu u Meksiku