The actress, now living in Italy but coming from the
former Jugoslavia, had given up socio-political activism for a while as she had
experienced too many losses because of her activism. She wanted to be ‘just’ an
actress. However, she couldn’t turn a blind eye to the injustice both in her
homeland and in the country of her choice, to the communities left alone, to the
stories never told. Her play presented at the festival, Speak, my life!, shows the decades-long genocide of Jenish people in
Switzerland, which was surrounded by dead silence, through the eyes of the
author Mariella Mehr, who herself was one of the victims. As an activist,
Dijana fights against the discrimination that Roma communities face and strives
to establish and put into action the European Roma Institute, the goal of which
is to promote the creation and dissemination of works by Roma artists. In all
her life, Dijana have found it important to fight instead of pitying herself
whenever she faced any challenges. Try to overcome our own boundaries and be
better than the others – that could be a good recipe in most cases.
The interview series were made with the help of the students of CEU: Ignácz
Judit, Sadie Luetmer és Mayya Kelova, Frederik Ørskov; and the professional
supervision of Jeremy Braverman. The videos were edited by Márton Illés and
Dénes Fellegi.
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