CORRIDOR NO 8BORIS DESPODOV, 2008duration: 74 minutes
place: Balkan
theme: mobility

Thus mosaic film combines fragments from the everyday lives of the characters who live along a fictional Balkan road. The road passes through the Balkan countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. Corridor #8 is the name of a huge EU infrastructure project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning. Corridor #8 has a historical significance as the European part of the Silk Road upon which St. Peter brought Christianity to Europe. It was also the road used by smugglers during the Yugoslavian Embargo from 1992 to 1996.