![]() And I squirreled away so many things that I had no free space to store flower and rice, although all I had ever prepared was coffee. I went to fetch the groceries and stockpiled all manner of supplies I could possibly think of. ![]() Like everyone else, I had to improvise.Īs a person who had lived through the air-raids and watched a bundle of films about apocalypse, the judgment day and unknown viruses, I was up and running from the first day of the pandemic. The trouble with this most recent chaos is that it is like no other. The truth to tell, a better part of your life is also over in the meantime, but, sometimes, that is the only survival mechanism when you are surrounded by a chaos. I have already seen this “one day” several times in my life. It might be the right point of view at this moment, but for the sake of my mental wellbeing, I find it easier to keep my routine, avoid groups of people, wear a mask, disinfect my hands and wait for this to be over the “one-day-this-will-all-be-over” approach used to save peoples’ lives in this region. I try really hard day in day out not to view our lives through the “before-and-after-Covid 19” perspective. I am writing this at the moment when 8000 people per day get infected from a disease that only nine months ago was unknown to us. The film Ajvar (2019) has been screened at more than 30 festivals and won twenty awards. ![]() ![]() The anthology film Neke druge price (Some other stories, 2010) was screened at more than 40 festivals and won 6 awards. She has written screenplays, directed films and documentaries, created and directed a number of TV shows, worked at advertising agencies and she writes about films for film journals, magazines and websites. Ana Maria Rossi is a film director from Belgrade. ![]()
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