ABOUT THE MOVIE
On the border between Serbia and Croatia, a region where the bloody Yugoslav war still reverberates, there is a pile of sand in the Danube that someone wants to turn into a new nation. In 2015, the micronation of Liberland was founded by a Czech politician who claims to have planted his flag in this no man's land. As the first president of Liberland, he is trying to shape his country. Is it idealism or is he pursuing other, non-altruistic goals?
Isabella Rinaldi
Isabella Rinaldi is an independent filmmaker from Rome, Italy, and co-founder of NoCut Film Collective. She graduated from the DocNomads Master Course after getting her Bachelor's Degree in Film Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. She directed and produced several short films, screened in international festivals, and a video installation for the MAO Museum of Ljubljana. In 2016, she founded NoCut Film Collective with fellow DocNomads students Arya Rothe and Cristina Hanes. "A Rifle and a Bag" (had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020) is the collective's first documentary feature.
