
This is a story about a painting portraying a fake political event: on a large-scale oil on canvas Balkan emigrants in Berlin are signing a peace treaty. The are posing to the famous Croatian painter Lovro Artuković, who assigned them the roles of presidents of the until recently waring Balkan countries. There are also UN mediators and international observers, advisors and border designers - 22 people, nine nationalities, all posing for Lovro's canvas, healing war traumas as they do it. This is a story about the making of a painting, about people who refused to go to war, about free-spirited Berlin.
Directed by Igor Mirković
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