CHICKEN ELECTIONS - (Pileci izbori)
B&W/Color, 48min, 2005, Documentary; Serbia
Serbo-Croatian with English sub-titles

Written and Directed by: Goran Radovanovic
Producer: Goran Radovanovic
Production Company: Nama Film
Camera: Radoslav Vladic
Music: Nemanja Mosurovic
Editor: Stevan Maric

Chicken Elections is a film about contemporary social life in the rural Balkans. A funny, sad and beautifully ironic story about solitude and depopulation. Set to cheerful music, black-and-white images show the official launch of the first mobile phone network. Then, "nine years later" appears on the screen and the film changes to color. The local traffic cop pays a visit to his grandmother, who lives by herself. He gives her a mobile phone and impatiently tries to explain to her how it works. Everything is set against the backdrop of snap elections, for which a man delivers ballots by scooter and about which fuddled men in a pub complain.

Awards
Golden Medal of Belgrade, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film
Festival, 2006

Director Goran Radovanovic
Born in Belgrade, he studied art history at Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy. In 1984 he began writing and directing features and documentaries.

Filmography
Terasa, short, 1991
East by Eastwest, short, 1995
Columba Urbica, short, 1995
Casting, documentary, 2003

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Goran Radovanovic
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www.goranradovanovic.com