Kosovo: Can You Imagine?

Kosovo: Can You Imagine?
Official poster
Directed by	Boris Malagurski
Written by	Boris Malagurski
Produced by	Brian Mitchell
Starring	Lewis MacKenzie James Byron Bissett Michel Chossudovsky
Edited by	Boris Malagurski
Music by	Filip Borac Mihaela Cristina Istrate Kevin Macleod Boris Malagurski
Production company	Malagurski Cinema
Release date	15 March 2009 (2009-03-15)
Running time	30 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	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. 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.

Awards and screenings

• 2009, Silver Palm Award (one of 14 films awarded in the Student Film category) for "Kosovo: Can You Imagine?" at the Mexico International Film Festival 2009, Rosarito, Mexico.

See also

• Kosovo: A Moment in Civilization
• Anti-Serb sentiment

External links

• Official Web Site Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Kosovo: Can You Imagine? at IMDb
• Interview with the Director in the Czech newspaper Literárky V Síti