‘Disposable Heroes’ visits seven war veterans of the Balkans who share their common experiences of battle, their firsthand confrontations with the madness of war, and their struggles as veterans to rebuild a normal existence. Today they compare their lives to the fate of Vietnam veterans. The documentary also offers hope – they have totally changed their opinions after the war. Their decision to bring up their children to be more tolerant than they were gives a meaning to their lives again. Since the end of the conflict in 1999, Kosovo has existed ambiguously as a Politically Undefined Province, governed by the United Nations and policed by NATO forces.
Iris Elezi
Iris Elezi is an Albanian film director and producer. Graduated from New York University with a degree in Film & TV Production and minors in both anthropology & women’s studies. In the last years she directed and produced a number of film projects in United States and in Albania including ‘The Last Leaf’, ‘Suicide Inc’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘Memory & Scars’, ‘Transference’, and ‘If It Could Be’. She later worked as a camera and sound operator for the Nebraska Film & TV Office and as an assistant teacher at New York University’s Department for Film & TV. Iris currently lives in Kosovo and teaches Filmmaking at the Prizren Film Academy.
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Disposable Heroes
Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania
2005, 26', color, video
Directed by:
Iris Elezi
Screenplay by:
Luan Qorraj
Cinematography:
Srđan Slavković
