Balkan Line

Balkan Line (2019) charts the grim aftermath of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, focusing on a dwindling squad of Serbian soldiers tasked with maintaining control of the Slatina airport in Kosovo. As the Yugoslav military retreats, these soldiers are left to fend off the advancing Albanian UCK forces, their beleaguered stand a microcosm of the broader ethnic and geopolitical tensions tearing the region apart. Director Goran Paskaljević captures the claustrophobic anxiety and moral ambiguity of war, where survival often trumps honor.