Here We Move, Here We Groove (+ Q&A Sergej Kreso)
In this moving musical documentary, DJ Robert Soko, a legend in the Balkan Beats scene, tries to find the sounds of a new Europe with the help of migrants.
‘Dub-dub’ is the sound the wheels make as DJ Robert Soko drives his taxi over the spot in the road where the Berlin wall once stood. It also echoes the East-meets-West beat of rousing Balkan rhythms blended with Western music that Soko launched onto the European club scene in 1993, under the name Balkan Beats. As a young refugee from former Yugoslavia, Soko organized dance nights that quickly became a hit in European cities. Now the popularity of the movement is waning and Soko is looking for a new source of inspiration. He finds it on a trip back to his native soil, where streams of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan are passing through.
HERE WE MOVE, HERE WE GROOVE is quite a personal documentary for Limburg-based director Sergej Kreso, who fled Sarajevo in 1993 to continue his work as an artist in The Netherlands. Both he and Soko used art to fit in with a new culture. Consequently, they know exactly what migrants nowadays are going through. It’s this consciousness that makes this documentary an utterly gripping watch.