Serbian pensioners Marija and Toma found each other in their 60s but are as smitten as teenagers, so much so that they invented a 15-month anniversary to be able to celebrate their love with their friends. The party takes place on the monument that Toma built to commemorate a great personal loss, drawing on the funds he acquired through years of working abroad. On this special day, the happy couple talk us through the lives and loves that led them here. The film is part of a series exploring aesthetics, architecture and identity among Gastarbeiters (migrant workers) throughout the Balkans.

Director's Bio: Eluned Zoe Aiano is a filmmaker, editor and translator with a background in Visual Anthropology whose work is generally centred on Central/Eastern Europe. Her most recent short, All Her Dying Lovers, an animated documentary made in collaboration with Anna Benner, premiered at Hot Docs and has been published on the New York Times Op Docs section. She was selected for the Wapping Artist Residency in Berlin, 2020, and the Pépinières Européennes de Création residency in Quebec, 2021. She is currently working on her first feature documentary in Serbia. She also writes about film and is a regular contributor to the East European Film Bulletin.

Greta Rauleac (Wild Pear Arts) is a Romanian multimedia producer specialized in Visual Anthropology. She has worked with various documentary production companies in Italy (such as GA&A Productions and DocLab in Rome) and, parallel to her documentary film work, she is a researcher interested in resistance practices, popular culture and urban issues. She writes for the online magazine “The Cooperative City” and she is enrolled as a PhD student in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University where she proposes a visual-based study on diaspora identity and representation in pop music.

Alesandra Tatić is a visual anthropologist based between France and Spain. Combining academic research and photography have led her to a series of short and one feature documentary projects. Through her fieldwork (mainly ex-Yugoslavia, Spain, and France) she is generally searching for innovative ways of expressing anthropological findings through digital visuals and giving a voice to women in migration. Alesandra is currently a social science PhD candidate at EHESS.