Breath Under the Sun

2025 (forthcoming) | UHD | TRT: 65 min

The year is 2016. Veles, a small town in North Macedonia, makes world headlines as the hub of fake news about the US presidential election. At the same time, the town becomes a major transit point on the so-called Western Balkan route, with over one million refugees from the Global South passing through on their way to Western Europe. How did this small, virtually unknown town end up in the crosshairs of global politics? Beyond the uproar, a complex picture emerges.