Yugodivas
An actress, a painter and three musicians from Belgrade leave their homeland to venture a new beginning in New York. The outbreak of the war in 1991 and especially the bomb raids on Belgrade in the sp…
Yugodivas
An actress, a painter and three musicians from Belgrade leave their homeland to venture a new beginning in New York. The outbreak of the war in 1991 and especially the bomb raids on Belgrade in the spring of 1999 have changed their lives forever. Memories and a painful analysis of the old homeland preoccupy their thoughts. The film tells us the story of their everyday lives, the theatre, painting, music and the search for a lost homeland. In the 1990s, a group of young Serbian women living in New York City watched along with the rest of the world as the former Yugoslavia dissolved into bloody war and ethnic violence. An actress, a painter and three classically trained musicians, had come to New York to study and pursue their art, but now, not only are they expatriates, but the homeland they knew no longer exists.
Yugodivas
Documentary
Film Details
An actress, a painter and three musicians from Belgrade leave their homeland to venture a new beginning in New York. The outbreak of the war in 1991 and especially the bomb raids on Belgrade in the spring of 1999 have changed their lives forever. Memories and a painful analysis of the old homeland preoccupy their thoughts.
The film tells us the story of their everyday lives, the theatre, painting, music and the search for a lost homeland. In the 1990s, a group of young Serbian women living in New York City watched along with the rest of the world as the former Yugoslavia dissolved into bloody war and ethnic violence. An actress, a painter and three classically trained musicians, had come to New York to study and pursue their art, but now, not only are they expatriates, but the homeland they knew no longer exists..