Chicken Elections
Director Goran Radovanovic
Countries Serbia
Duration 48 min
Synopsis
Chicken Elections is a film about contemporary social life in the rural Balkans. In this story, an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone which she got form her grandchild, a local traffic policeman... Finally, when she somehow learns how to use it, she dies... So, this story becomes the metaphor of dying province and the absurduty of the development in transition countries. ..Chicken Elections is a funny, sad and beautifull ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death...
Chicken Elections is a film about contemporary social life in the rural Balkans. In this story, an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone which she got form her grandchild, a local traffic policeman... Finally, when she somehow learns how to use it, she dies... So, this story becomes the metaphor of dying province and the absurduty of the development in transition countries. ..Chicken Elections is a funny, sad and beautifull ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death...