Anti-War Film ‘The Eclipse’ Nabbed by Taskovski Ahead of CPH:DOX Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Taskovski Films has acquired world sales rights to Nataša Urban’s “The Eclipse,” which has its world premiere in the main DOX:AWARD competition at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX).Focusing on the events of Aug.
11, 1999, when most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers in fear of a total solar eclipse, the film uses the rare natural phenomenon as a metaphor for a nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices.
In the process, Urban’s documentary essay confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past, and the evil that is still on the loose today.“It took me 25 years to start opening up about my experiences of war,” said the director in a statement. “It is the safety net of my family and life in Norway that allowed me to finally start facing the ghosts from my past.” “The Eclipse” presents a deeply personal story for Urban, whose previous films include the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) selection “Journey of a Red Fridge” and the award-winning “Big Sister Punam.”“I became a documentary filmmaker in 2005, when I was desperately looking for ways to disassociate myself from my home country Serbia,” she said. “I found my new identity in being a filmmaker.
But eventually, even that wasn’t enough to make my life in Serbia bearable. My homeland had put me through hell, and much worse, had done unconceivable atrocities, genocide even, in neighboring countries.
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