Adela Peeva

Motivation

In searching for the origin of the song's melody, she successfully combines various historical and social realities of Balkan countries; she captures the richness and pride of Balkan societies and nations "from within" in a way that may not be familiar to Western viewers; she reveals mechanisms according to which belonging must be built or simply assumed, thus turning it into an immutable reality; she records closedness, rejection, and refusal of the other, conflicts, and deadly hatred, even when it comes to matters of secondary importance, such as the question of which nation a song belongs to; she reveals how our deep convictions tied to a supposed identity are actually superficial and how alleged realities contain various stereotypes; with visual evidence and a typical approach of an artist who tells striking stories, she shows how issues crucial to national pride can dissipate if we also consider the other side; with a noble, ironic note that never injures anyone's dignity, she evokes a relieving smile in the viewer that, like catharsis, purifies all recorded impurities; she particularly conveys that the ability to understand stems from intercultural mediation, where no culture loses the values it identifies with, either as a nation or as a faith.

Filmography

2007   Divorce albanian style
2003   Cia e tazi pesen? (Whose is this song?)
2001   Dva stapala nadezhda (Two Steps of Hope)
1999   Izlishnite (Superfluous People)
1998   Kashta varhu kama, kashta varhu pasak (A House on a Rock, a House on Sand)
1988   Sasedkata (The Neighbour)
1981   Mayki (Mothers)