FilmFestMUC: THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD by Teona S. Mitevska

The Happiest Man in the World
directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska
North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Denmark, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Protected content
Bosnian (OmU), 95 minutes
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A middle-aged couple matched at a blind-dating event in Sarajevo discover that although the battles besieging their city are over, the war continues in many other forms.
Asja is a 45-year-old legal advisor looking for romantic love. Encouraged by her mother, she reluctantly attends a blind-dating event in her hometown, where she is matched with a 46-year-old banker named Zoran despite his intense stare, comes off as shy. Asja and Zoran are from Sarajevo, a city geographically encircled by hills and mountains and one that, for three years, 10 months, three weeks, and three days between Protected content 1996, was ruthlessly besieged and shelled by Serbian forces. The hopeful couple’s initial lighthearted spars to prompted questions — their favourite colours, their preferred seasons — establish their similarities, yet, as their skeletons slowly begin leaving the closet, it becomes evident the pair are on opposite sides of the battlefield. Moreover, it appears that they may have met in the not-so-distant past under much harsher circumstances — and that Zoran is in search of something much more fickle than love.

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