Boris MitiĆ

Pretty Dyana

directed by:	Boris Mitić
producer country:	Serbia/Montenegro
production year:	2003
duration:	45 min
sound:	Dragutin Girović, Slobodan Krička
camera:	Boris Mitić
edited by:	Boris Mitić
produced by:	Boris Mitić

Awards

Special Award by the Humans Rights Jury at the 10th Sarajevo Film Festival (2004), Award by the Audience at RomaDocFest (2004), The Best Documentary – Dokufest, Prizren (2004).

Boris Mitić is a self-taught film maker who has bought a movie camera, left a highly respected job of a journalist and turned to documentary film directing.

Film plot

A glance at Belgrade in which the Roma survive turning traditional "Citroen" automobiles into futuristic Mad Max-style cars. In addition to their usable function, the transformed cars also symbolise freedom, hope and, finally, the style of people who invest all their energy and passion into saving things others have discarded. Another way of recycling discarded things is to use empty car batteries as power generators for lighting and watching TV sets. Regretfully, the police do not find these cars amusing enough.