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Goran Paskaljevic's The Powder Keg (aka Cabaret Balkan), which played to sold out audiences at the 2000 HRWIFF, is a seminal film on the tragedy and social self-implosion of Serbian society in the 1990's. In 2004 Paskaljevic crafted what may be the defining film on postwar Serbia and the quiet tragedy that is unfolding in this psychologically devastated country. Set in the winter of 2004, Lazar, a Serbian Army deserter sent to prison for many years, returns to his home in hopes of reconnecting to his former, normal life. There he finds squatters-Jasna, a single mother who is raising her autistic 12-year-old daughter Jovana (stunningly played by Jovana Mitic who is severely autistic). Refugees from Bosnia, they have been squatting in Lazar's apartment for some time now. Like Lazar, Jasna, whose husband never accepted their daughter's autism and abandoned them, also wishes to turn the page on a difficult past. Lazar doesn't have the heart to make them leave. Little by little, among these three beings marginalized by society, a special kinship develops.