Serbia/Kosovo
THE DIVIDED CITY OF MITROVICA
18 MIN
2025
Mitrovica is a city in Kosovo ethnically divided between Albanians and Serbs. The landscape of the place frozen by conflict narrates two poems about the dying mothers. Two people seem to be lost in ruins and the cherry trees blossom.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Jelena Angelovski, Miljan Dunđerin
Director: Marko Grba Singh
Script: Marko Grba Singh, Aida Šešić Nezirević, Latif Berisha
Directors of Photography:Marko Grba Singh, Radiša Cvetković, Daniel Kötter, Milan Dobrić
Sound: Luka Barajević
Editing: Mina Simendić
Cast: Snežana Džogović, Bledni Kabashaj
Production: Obol Film (Serbia), PKC Akvarijus (Kosovo)
Marko Grba Singh
Marko Grba Singh was born in 1988 in Belgrade. He is currently in master's studies at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. His short documentaries At Least We’ve Met and Pale had their world premieres at the Visions du Réel International Documentary FF in Nyon in 2012 and 2013. His mid-length film Abdul & Hamza, which deals with the fate of Somali refugees on European soil, premiered at the FIDMarseille in 2015, where it received a Special Jury Award. At the beginning of 2016, as part of the Looking China project, he went to China and filmed a short documentary Stars of Gaomeigu, for which he got an award for the most innovative short film at the Visions du Réel International Documentary FF in 2017. He directed the short film Tesaurus, which premiered at the Doclisboa in 2020. The latest film he made is feature length documentary Rampart, which had its world premiere at the Locarno FF. He is an alumni of Berlinale Talents, Locarno Academy and FIDCampus. Marko Grba Singh is the Artistic Director of Belgrade Documentary FF (Beldocs) and one of the programmers of Zagreb Human Rights FF.

Filmography
At Least We've Met (short doc., 2012), Pale (short doc., 2013), Abdul & Hamza (doc., 2015), Stars of Gaomeigu (short doc., 2016), Tesaurus (short, 2020), Rampart (doc., 2021), The Divided City of Mitrovica (doc., 2025)․

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