“Kismet”, documentary for Albanian and Serbian girls

A documentary titled é Kiismet '%s' has been produced within the history platforms of Albania and Serbia as a youth co-operation between these two countries.

In its centre is not only youthful co-operation among countries in the troubled Balkan region, but are women and girls, as well as their integrity in society.

Although with numerous differences between them, Albania and Serbia share a major joint: the mascular and patriarchal society that presupposes them.

And to talk more about it, the documentary sheds light on the lives of eight girls from the two respective countries, brave girls who seek to confront the mentality of the mascular society and break the girl's stereotype “delice” and male-owned.

The key element in the documentary is the inclusion that gives the girl's picture: there are interviews with journalists, with girls who don't belong to urban life, but rural life in the country (with their economic initiatives), girls from technology and contributors to open source software and so on.

The title "Kissiet" itself, a word of Arabic origin that tells of determinism and destiny in life that is destined to be ecologicalally related to the documentary asking the question: “Do girls have the predetermined destiny in society (so this is their price), or are they able to change it?”

Part of the documentary is the Albanian girl, Kristi Progri, who has shown in the article on my History, her experience as a contributor to the Mozilla project and the sexism she faces in the field of technology.

The documentary had its premiere in Belgrade and Tirana last week.