Shaban / Å aban
Serbia, 52' , 2007.

Directed by: Miloš Stojanoviæ
Script: Miloš Stojanoviæ, Tanja Šimiæ Berclaz
Producer: Miloš Stojanoviæ
Production company: SPIF – STUDIO OF THEATRE & FILM
Cinematography: Nikola Majdak jr.
Editing: Srðan Radmiloviæ
Music: Mostar Sevdah Reunion

Format: video, color
Running time: 52'

Synopsis
Šaban is the story of Serbia’s legendary Roma music man, Šaban Bajramoviæ. With intimate incite into the life, loves and art of this life-long singer, musician, composer and family man; but also passionate gambler and renowned womanizer who has fathered children born of love and adventure. Šaban is often short-fused and stubborn, but is also an honest free spirit. Proud of his ‘Gypsy’ origins, and although he is an undisciplined sufferer of diabetes who expects the end, he still manages to be a trickster and a fanciful dreamer at 70-years-old. The film’s central scenes take place in the Bosnian city of Mostar during the recording of Šaban’s most recent album (recorded with the Mostar sevdah Reunion and Macedonian trumpet master Neat Veliov).

Directors Biography
Miloš Stojanoviæ, born 1968 in Belgrade, Serbia, studied acting at the Sarajevo Academy of Scenic Art, before going on to graduate from the Novi Sad Academy of Arts (1992). Employed in an acting capacity at theatres across the former Yugoslavia, including Belgrade’s Zvezdara Theatre, Dushko Radovich Theatre, Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Atelje 212 and National Theatre. Freelance director.

Location and screening schedule:
premiere: SC Cinema, Thursday, October 25th at 17.00
reprisal: &TD Cinema, Friday, October 26th at 11.00