Turbo Folk 2.0 (The Second Generation)

Sandra Afrika is a Serbian performer trying to make it big in the Balkan music scene called turbo folk dominated by mafia and silicone enhanced young women singing a fusion of folk music with electro beats. Her claim to success is interwoven with deeply personal stories of her main fan base - the second generation ex-Yugoslavian (Yugo) community facing an insurgence of anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany. Miloš alias DJ Faca tries to stay clean in a clubbing community where mediatised kitsch, former Balkan war lords turned businessman and beautiful women converge. Sanja is a devoted turbo folk fan of Serbian/Macedonian origins working hard during the day and attending turbo folk performances at night with her Croatian and Montenegrin girlfriends. It is during Sandra Afrika’s exuberant gig at the Berlin club the Universal Hall that her fans’ overwhelming desire to escape in nostalgia for a country long gone becomes vividly apparent.