The Last Hole on the Flute

Its title taken from an old Serbian saying regarding the position of the lowest of the low within human society, Last Hole on the Flute examines the life, work and travails of Romany musicians in the far south of the Balkans. Director Vava Stojadinovic presents a highly stylized and visually engaging record of the dynamics of a minority group within a larger society, which moreover is itself filled with internal contradictions and cultural collisions. Taking in styles ranging from high energy festival brass bands and languid trumpet laments to street breakdancing, ethno-disco and topical rapping, the film is also a dizzying and inspiring survey of unbridled creativity in the midst of one of the most impoverished regions in Europe.