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The movement’s breakout feature, directed by 29-year-old Naida Halilović, tells a surreal story: a cynical Sarajevan Uber driver (played by a former child refugee) picks up a mysterious passenger — an artificial intelligence that claims to be the ghost of the destroyed (Stari Most). Together, they drive through virtual reconstructions of erased Bosnian villages, arguing whether rebuilding means healing or erasure. The climax takes place in a digital twin of the 1984 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, where AI-generated Kusturica and Žbanić appear as arguing holograms. It premiered not in Cannes, but on a repurposed jumbotron in a Mostar parking lot, streamed live to Discord servers worldwide.

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