The Landscape and the Fury

A slow-paced film that maintains distance, exploring tensions along the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. The border marks the end of European Union territory, making the area a manifestation of policies that openly violate human rights. An unobtrusive camera captures everyday life: here, the uncertain fate of refugees merges with the local community, its past, and the landscape. Gradually revealing the historical wounds of the region, the landscape itself becomes a significant character in the film. War mines still lie buried in the soil from the 1990s: not only deminers and local residents walk among them, but also people seeking asylum in the EU.

Nicole Vögele

Nicole Vögele is a filmmaker and journalist based in Zurich and Berlin Since 2021, she holds a professorship at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Her heart always belonged to poetic storytelling and investigative truth seeking. Films Frau Loosli (2013), Into the Innards (2013), and Nebel (2014) premiered at international film festivals. Her documentary feature Closing Time (2018) received a prize at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival.