TRAPPED BY LAW
Symposium
As early as Žilnik’s KENEDI GOES BACK HOME, the collision between the arbitrariness of the EU’s closed-door logic and the inconceivable fates of Roma deported from certain ex-Yugoslavian republics had already entered into the consciousness of the documentary film world. In Sami Mustafa’s TRAPPED BY LAW it is no longer humour that predominates, but instead the sort of sheer madness that the protagonists, brothers Kefaet and Selami, are exposed to in Kosovo after their forced repatriation. Mustafa shows their odyssey, their youth, their hip-hop, their socialisation in the German rustbelt (Essen), just as he shows the cold shoulders of law and bureaucracy.
DEU, KOS 2015 / 90 min
Language: English, German, Albanian, Romani
Director: Sami Mustafa
- Screenplay: Sami Mustafa
- Producer: Sami Mustafa, Charlotte Bohl-Mustafa
- Production Company: Romawood
- Co-Production Company: Hupe Film
As early as Žilnik’s KENEDI GOES BACK HOME, the collision between the arbitrariness of the EU’s closed-door logic and the inconceivable fates of Roma deported from certain ex-Yugoslavian republics had already entered into the consciousness of the documentary film world. In Sami Mustafa’s TRAPPED BY LAW it is no longer humour that predominates, but instead the sort of sheer madness that the protagonists, brothers Kefaet and Selami, are exposed to in Kosovo after their forced repatriation. Mustafa shows their odyssey, their youth, their hip-hop, their socialisation in the German rustbelt (Essen), just as he shows the cold shoulders of law and bureaucracy.
- Screenplay: Sami Mustafa
- Producer: Sami Mustafa, Charlotte Bohl-Mustafa
- Production Company: Romawood
- Co-Production Company: Hupe Film