Saidin Salkic has been called “Natural treasure in Australia’s Avant-garde film industry” and his film The Compassion of the Undertaker is to have its international premiere in early June, at the renowned New York Filmmakers Cooperative in New York.
Along with Salkic, the film costars Australian film veteran, 89 year old John Flaus (The Castle, The Dish).
In the film, a mystical figure recalls the mysterious events surrounding the final disappearance of an elderly bank robber. As the tension grows and mystery slowly unravels, we realise that we are witnessing something we have never seen before. Hailed a “masterwork”, Saidin Salkic’s 20th film opens the door that we never had a chance to walk through before.
Salkic, inspired by his experience of surviving the greatest genocide in Europe since WW2, the Srebrenica genocide, is one of the most prolific filmmakers and artists in the world today.
Having arrived to Australia in 2001 as a refugee, he has become one of the most respected Australian contemporary filmmakers on the international stage of alternative and new cinema.
