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12 02 2009 This Thursday, Life in Kosovo broadcast the documentary film called “Travelling to Europe”.
The 33-minute documentary was a travel guide compiled by Kosovar students, all with high average grades, who had the chance to obtain Schengen visas and travel through EU countries for a month.
Anchored by BIRN journalist, Muhamet Hajrullahu, however, the show actually began with the report “Culture in Kosovo”, prepared by another BIRN journalist, Arif Muharremi.
The cultural highlight of this was the premiere of “Hold my hand,” a film produced in Kosovo about drugs and drug use in Kosovo schools. Based on a true story the film reflected the sad reality of the scale of drug abuse among youngsters.
In “Travelling to Europe,” BIRN journalist, Krenare Maloku, one of the 25 participants on this journey, shared her concerns about the limits that people from Southeast Europe face when it comes to travelling through the Western part of the continent.
Benjamin Van Parys, Master in international relations from Belgium, told Krenare he did not feel comfortable travelling when he learned of the obstacles that people from the Balkans had to overcome in order to travel.
“I almost felt guilty when I travelled to the Balkans because it was so easy for me to travel anywhere I wanted and people in the Balkans told me how difficult it was for them to travel to my The documentary film showed shots of the beautiful scenery encountered by the travelers and some of the more influential buildings visited by
the students.
It ended with the last train to Vienna and then the flight back to Prishtina, together with
Krenare Maloku’s parting words: “After place after place, we came to the end of ourjourney.
We are returning back with many photographs, memories and experiences.
From the global point of view, this was the week when the US inaugurated Barack Obama as the first ever mixed-race president.
With this historic event in mind, BIRN broadcast a TV report on a member of the Roma minority in Kosovo who has felt inspired by Obama’s example to run for the post of President of Kosovo in the next presidential elections.
BIRN also broadcast the municipal debate “Jeta in Mitrovica,” in which the moderator, Jeta Xharra, confronted Bajram Rexhepi, head of the Mitrovica municipality.
Life in Kosovo is a co-production between Kosovo Public Television, RTK and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN. It is broadcast every Thursday, starting at 20:20.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
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