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Adio kerida
IDFA Bertha Fund 1998

Adio kerida

Sarajevo Jewish Community
Vesna Ljubic
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Festival history
ADIO KERIDA is a cheerful and somewhat ironic story about an American seeking his roots in post-war Bosnia, at the time when everybody from Bosnia & Herzegovina is trying to leave for America. Through the search of a young Jewish-American of Polish origin who is looking for his great-uncle, the audience becomes acquainted with practically the entire world of Sarajevo-based Sephardic Jews. Combining realistic scenes with surrealistic ones, in which the young American imagines the world that is no more, the director poetically tells the story of a man who became a legend. The great-uncle, it is said, knew Kabala, practised magic and healing, photographed fairies and could even stop the rain. Was he a real person or just the director’s hope that the impossible can also exist in Bosnia today?
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    IDFA Bertha Fund
    IDFA Bertha Fund