Lode Desmet

Kosovo: Does Anyone Have a Plan?

Director	Lode Desmet
Country of production:	Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium
Year of production:	2006
Duration:	86 min
Sound:	Lode Desmet
Camera:	Lode Desmet
Editing:	Aleksandar Stojanov
Production and distribution:	BIRN – Balkan Investigative Reporting Network

Film plot

Documentary "Kosovo: Does Anyone Have a Plan?" presents, in a unique way, the worries and hopes of 17 ordinary people from Kosovo and from neighbouring countries regarding the final Kosovo status. Their questions are raised to local and international politicians, hoping to find the resolution for the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo Albanians to stabilise the situation in the region. The questions are directed to High Representative of European Union for Foreign Politics and Security, Javier Solana, American Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns, Serbian President Boris Tadić, and Kosovo Prime Minister, Bajram Kosumi. Kosovo is the last unsolved issue in the Balkans, with Kosovo Albanians who want independence, and Serbia, which is not willing to provide nothing more than higher autonomy level.

Lode Desmet graduated at literature studies at the University of Leuven. His career as a journalist began in 1987 in Belgian newspapers De Morgen and the weekly Humo and Knack. Three years later, he began to work as a radio reporter for Belgian public service VRT. Since 1993, he has worked on TV, where he, until 1997, recorded 52 documentaries. His documentaries were awarded with numerous prizes.

Filmography

2006: Does any one have a plan?
2005: Heysel 1985 – Requiem for a Cup Final; Hamebus Papabile
2004: Radio – The Country which doesn't exist
2003: Ode to liberty; Mother's Crossing
2002: Boys will be boys
2000: My name is Wilkinson; Truck driver school ; I love you hotel
1999: Exodus or Vina's World
1998: Kapellen Barracks – Fortress Europe
1997: Hamburgers in Harare
1993: Nathan Kahan