Zulfikar Filandra

A filmmaking process helps one filmmaker son deal with his emotionally closed father.

Velid, a worker at an explosives factory in the vicinity of Goražde, is fired along with several of his colleagues. While other workers are protesting and starting a strike against the factory Velid falls into depression and goes wandering alone around the city and the banks of the Drina river. Two young and aspiring film directors who are visiting Bosnia bump into him and decide to engage him in their film. This develops in a painful way.

A film essay MINOTAUR covers 15 years of the author's life. Through various formats of private archives, from cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, segments from the author's previous films, vacation videos, we experience a Proustian journey through fragments of the recorded and cathartic confrontation with transience, dear people, poetry of small things and growing up.