i witness

A FILM BY MITKO PANOV

A SWISS-MACEDONIAN-IRISH-CROATIAN COPRODUCTION / WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF EURIMAGES, THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

"For the one who wants to learn justice, judging himself is sufficient.“

Synopsis

Vince Harrington (Podriac Delaney), ambitious Junior Legal Officer, works endless hours in the maze of the ICTY archives at The Hague while his senior colleague reaps the credits. This isn’t how he imagined his reality. With the consent of the senior judge (Marthe Keller) who, facing a personal crisis resigns from her post, Vince takes upon a self-assigned journey to a fictitious, Ex Yugoslav country in order to obtain a pre-trial statement from an insider witness Nikola Radin, alias The General (Bruno Ganz)...

"THE EXCELLENT SCRIPT WHICH SUCCESSFULLY COMBINES ELEMENTS OF AN ENTERTAINING AND TENSE THRILLER WITH A PROFOUND SENSE OF THE POLLITICAL ANS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONFLICT IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA". ANTONIO SAURA

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BEST SCREENPLAY - AWARDED BY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TV / JURY PRESIDENTS - PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI AND KRISTINA CALLAS

BEST SCREENPLAY - AWARDED BY SCRIPTEAST / JURY PRESIDENT - ANTONIO SAURA

DIRECTOR'S BIO

Mitko Panov studied Directing at the Polish National School for Film, TV & Theatre in Lodz. For his films he received many international awards including Golden Palm for best short film at Cannes for "With Raised Hands". He is recipient of the Sundance Documentary Film Grant, the Rockefeller Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship for distinguished artists and scholars. His works were aired on television networks including : Canal +, France 3, Channel 4, ARTE, ZDF, PBS, ARD/BR, 3 Sat, B-92, Arts & Entertainment-USA, to name a few.