With Raised Hands
A dream-like recreation of a moment in the Warsaw Ghetto based on the famous photograph of a frightened child with raised hands.
Mitko Panov
Director
Mitko Panov
Writer
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Mitko Panov
This is a story of a friendship between two characters that have obviously had too many differences. The first one is a doctor and an Orthodox, and the other is a peasant and a Muslim. Both of them share the same dedication to their work. The one who is a peasant can not harvest the meadow due to the health difficulties. In spite of the doctors' disagreement, he decides to harvest the grass.
In 1999 the Rahmanis and their three children emigrated to Switzerland during the NATO bombing in Serbia. After years of living in their new homeland, the family faces the prospects of deportation. Desperate to stay, Rasim - the father of the family and an ex- music teacher - masterminds the making of an Albanian Dance Troupe in order to garner signatures of support from the community… The War is Over is an intimate narrative that reflects the common immigrant experience in the age of globalization. Can a good man hold up under the excruciating pressures of war, exile and deportation? Will he be able to rebuild his life abroad and make sense of it?
An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice.
