Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AA. Doors open 12.30 for film screening followed by Q & As.
Director Alan Trow and Jimi Tihofsi, creator of the screenplay, discuss and answer questions on the making of the award-winning film 'Kesulat' (Fields of War) filmed on location in Kosovo following the 1998-99 war with Serbia and released in 2017.
Tickets: included in ticket for ‘Kesulat’.
Alan Trow, left, with writer-actor Jimi Tihofsi, centre, on location in Kosovo.
Since the mid 1980's cinematographer Alan Trow BSC has been responsible for the cinematic look of many features and TV productions, including Project Shadowchaser, Monolith, Chasing The Deer, Cyberjack, The Punk and Up ‘N’ Under. Along with his work as a DP he took on the role of director and producer on the much-admired 2017 movie Kesulat: A Story Of Kosovo. He is a full member of the British Society of Cinematographers.
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Jimi Tihofsi, a Kosovan refugee now living in Battersea, wrote and produced the film depicting the troubles in his home country.#
Jimi left Kosovo just before the war started in 1997. There were frequent clashes between the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serbian police forces. Jimi said life in the country "became very difficult as the Serbian forces were very oppressive toward the Albanian population".
He studied drama in Kosovo and continued to do so in London. Kesulat, which means, ‘The Hats’, recreates some of the horrific events of the closing stages of the war in 1999, culminating with the NATO bombings of Serbian forces.
Jimi said: "It was a journey into the unknown, as I started facing difficulties in many ways. Converting these stories into a screenplay was difficult enough. And that is when I met the cinematographer/director Alan Trow, who for the past 15 years has been part of the journey which finally came to fruition. It has a cast of Kosovan actors, including myself, who all experienced the war, many losing close family members - and emotional interviews with survivors for whom the memories won't go away.”