Shutka Book of Records

Czech Republic-Serbia and Montenegro
2005/35mm/78mins

FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 6.15 PM — Dendy
SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 4.00 PM — Dendy

More absurd and hilarious than Borat, it’s hard to believe that the people, indeed the whole town at the centre of this warm and quirky documentary, are real.

Welcome to Shutka, a town somewhere in the Balkans indexed by the United Nations as one of the poorest places in Europe. Its impossibly cheery inhabitants make the best out of their lives by trying to be champions at whatever they do — whether it’s exterminating genies, hunting down vampires, training geese to fight or collecting obsolete Turkish music. Director Aleksander Manic uses a highly innovative style of self-representation to discover the capacity for happiness and crazy joy of some of the most passionate people on earth.

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International Documentary Film Festival Mexico — Best Film

One World International Film Festival Prague — Audience Award

“It’s a pixilated, marvel-filled work and it may keep you off balance for its entire running time — wondering how much of it is real, how much is fiction” Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

SHUTKA BOOK OF RECORDS
(KNJIGA REKORDA SUTKE)

Director Aleksandar Manic Producer Judita Krizova
Print Source Aleksandar Manic