About the artist
Since the 1960s, Želimir Žilnik (born in Niš in 1942) has been capturing crucial transitions in his home country (now Serbia) and beyond through short films, documentaries, feature films, and essay films. From the Socialist regime under Tito to West Germany in the 1970s and the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, his oeuvre, which now encompasses over 50 films, reflects on the cultural, political, and economic conditions of various societies. Critical and always radically independent, he reveals the mechanisms involved in exclusion and oppression. Issues of migration are a particular focus of his films.