Depth Two (Dubina dva)

Experimental documentary thriller Depth Two is trying to tell a story that has remained untold to this date due to the public secret status it received. The film centres around a mass grave in the suburbs of Belgrade that witnesses 17-year-old crimes but despite its central position still remains silent. Through meditative and hypnotizing images, and also personal accounts, director Ognjen Glavonić enables his viewers to make their own story and give voice to those who haven't been heard.

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"Depth Two does not deal with motives, reasons or, God forbid, with an attempt to understand the crime. Ognjen Glavonić – who, it should be mentioned, was only a teenager at the time when the crimes were committed in Suva Reka in the west of Kosovo – starts from the awareness that the crime took place, which the politicians in this area never accepted, moreover, there was attempt to cover it up in the name of state interests. The f ilm visually rests on poetic shots, but due to its auditory segment, these shots become increasingly disturbing and increasingly malignant as the crime is reconstructed in more and more detail. All the way to the edge of the viewer’s physical response."

- Ivan Žaknić