Bure Baruta / Cabaret Balkan

In a series of interlocking stories, director Goran Paskaljević explores the connection between violence and masculinity within the context of the then ongoing wars in former Yugoslavia. On a harsh winter night in Belgrade before the signing of the Dayton Agreement, an ex-con working as a taxi driver has a series of bizarre encounters with tragic passengers from all walks of life, each a part of a patchwork of stories. Elsewhere, Ana survives a bus hijacking, only to find herself caught between a drug dealer and an angry boyfriend. And on the other side of town, passionate showman Boris struggles to entertain a tough crowd in a smoky cabaret.