ScreenWize

More absurd and hilarious than Borat, it’s hard to believe that the people - indeed the whole town - at the centre of this warm and quirky documentary, are real.

Welcome to Shutka, a town somewhere in the Balkans indexed by the United Nations as one of the poorest places in Europe. Its impossibly cheery inhabitants make the best out of their lives by trying to be champions at whatever they do – whether it’s exterminating genies, hunting down vampires, training geese to fight or collecting obsolete Turkish music. Director Aleksander Manic uses a highly innovative style of self-representation to discover the capacity for happiness and crazy joy of some of the most passionate people on earth.

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