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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Kusturica again turns a Balkan riverside community into exuberant magical chaos, mixing family feuds, scams, folk music and wildly physical comedy with genuine affection for its unruly characters.
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Why this pick
Its carnivalesque Balkan imagery, raucous music and surreal humour share Time of the Gypsies’ feverish energy, while a long friendship becomes a tragicomic journey through history and betrayal.
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Why this pick
A child’s simple errand unfolds through a vivid street-level world of eccentric encounters. It has the same compassionate attention to marginal lives, chance, and small acts of resilience, in a quieter realist register.
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Why this pick
For the director’s later, more openly fable-like mode: rural Balkan life erupts into romance, danger and animal-filled surrealism, sustained by the boisterous visual imagination that drives Perhan’s story.
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Why this pick
Like Perhan’s odyssey, it follows a young man shaped by loyalty, guilt and harsh social hierarchies. Its sweeping melodramatic arc balances intimate family wounds with a turbulent changing world.
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01 / THE STORY
Perhan lives with his devoted grandmother Khaditza, his lame sister Danira and his dissolute uncle Merdzan. He wants to marry a girl named Azra, but her mother won't allow it, as Perhan is the illegitimate son of a Slovenian soldier who had an affair with Perhan's late mother. Ahmed, the "Gypsy sheik," comes to the village with his brothers. Merdzan loses his clothes playing cards with Ahmed's brothers, and comes home desperate for money so that he can repay. It is raining and not finding any money, he accuses the grandmother of hiding the money from him and lifts the frame of the house up (using a rope and a truck), so that it is suspended in mid-air as the rain comes down on Perhan, his grandmother and Danira. Very soon after, Khaditza is summoned to use her powers to save Ahmed's sick son, Roberto, which Khaditza does. For repayment, she proposes a deal with Ahmed - to pay for Danira's leg to be healed at a hospital in Ljubljana. Perhan goes with Danira, promising his grandmother not to leave her, but Ahmed asks where will he stay and convinces him to go to Milan. At first Perhan wants to make money honestly, but after being dragged through the mud, Perhan begins stealing and squirreling money away in a shack.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Perhan
