Cement

In a small town in Serbia, fate is a cement factory. Before the end of socialism in Yugoslavia, just about everyone in Beocˇin worked at the local cement plant. The word unemployment was an unknown; people lived comfortably, with no ethnic or religious barriers between them. Times have changed. The factory was privatized and bought up by a French company which cut many jobs. The former workers try to sustain themselves by all possible means. And so taxi drivers sprout up everywhere, lacking costumers to take anyplace. The only light in the darkness of creeping poverty is the Cement Box Club. Here we meet Darko, a 14-year-old boxing talent. Thanks to his brutal daily training he is Serbia-Montenegro’s youth boxing champion. Darko has made his mind to become somebody, a more than ambitious goal in Beocin. Cement is the authentic portrait of a community that, though plunged into insecurity, never looses its sense of humour. (DOK.fest München)