Afterwar

Filmed over the period od 15 years, Afterwar portrays four children from Prishtina becoming adults in a country still strongly feeling the consequences of the 1990s war. We meet the film's protagonists - Xhevahira, Gezim, Shpresim and Besnik - as children earning a living as street vendors. The children grow up before our eyes, but behind the adult gaze there are still children, facing their deepest secrets and longings as their struggle for survival becomes a struggle for any kind of future. Through close creative collaboration with her protagonists, director Birgitte Staermose in her film intertwines raw realism, staged sequences and meditation about the long-term consequences of war. Any war, anywhere.