CPH:DOX

Taskovski Films has acquired world sales rights to Natasa Urban's latest feature, which premieres in the main competition in Copenhagen.

“To me, ‘The Eclipse’ is an anti-war film,” said Urban. “The reoccurring solar eclipse, and the breakup of Yugoslavia, warn us that the postwar European peace is an illusion, that our violent history can be used to sow the seeds for new carnage and war. “Together we provide a picture of our wartime reality in the ‘90s. How did a modern society slip into a society governed by nationalism? “We dig into our memories, confronting the demons of our wartime past, exposing the evil that our country perpetrated on our behalf,” she said. “It took me 25 years to start opening up about my experiences of war,” said the director in a statement. “I became a documentary filmmaker in 2005, when I was desperately looking for ways to disassociate myself from my home country Serbia,” she said. In the process, Urban’s documentary essay confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past, and the evil that is still on the loose today.