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Seeking a way out of the Bosnian war, Redzo devises a plan. He’ll pretend to be mentality unstable and seek refuge with a group of psychiatric patients who are being moved to a ward in Hungary. The plan works…a little too well. Seventeen years later, Redzo is still in the psychiatric refugee camp, unable to convince the government of his sanity. He writes letters stating his case to no avail, while cultivating relationships with the patients around him. This portrait of Redzo drifts between the walls of the psychiatric ward and the offices of the Bosnian government where the debate continues on what to do with the refugees they left behind. Balancing issues of mental health, government policy and the man caught in the middle, Playing the Fool explores the notion of what happens when escaping leaves you trapped. Gabor Pertic

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