«Raskrsnice»
Kursk

The play Raskrsnice is about work.

The title is Serbian and means crossroads.

The play shows poor working conditions.

It shows how large companies exploit workers.

Indian workers had to work on a construction site in Serbia.

A Chinese company sent them to Serbia.

The workers had almost no rights there.

One worker had to sleep in a pigsty.

A Serbian group called ZSF helps the workers.

In the theatre, the workers tell their real stories.

The play shows that people from different countries can stick together.

Rafiul Box was born in Durganagar, West Bengal, Kolkata, India. He comes from a working-class family, completed 12 years of schooling and, like many in his community, took on the responsibility of supporting his family at an early age. When he was unable to find permanent work in India, an employment agency offered him a job in Serbia. He took out a bank loan and paid $3,500 for it. Once he arrived in Serbia, his dreams of a well-paid job in safe conditions were shattered. He worked on the construction site of the Linglong tire factory and on the Belgrade-Budapest railway project under the management of China Railways. Rafiul was housed in a room with 15 other men. Payments were irregular. After receiving his first salary, the next two months passed without pay.

Lukas Sander, born in Berlin, worked there in various departments such as camera and editing for documentary films and cinema. He then studied scenography and exhibition design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where he was also an associate artist in the Artistic Fellowship Program for artistic research. He works as a scenographer, lighting designer, and video artist in Germany and the independent scene in Switzerland. His own productions include site-specific projects, installations, and video walks, most recently seen at the Bern Biennale, the Palazzo Trevisan in Venice, and the Gessnerallee Zurich. Teaching assignments have taken him to the ZHdK, the Berlin University of the Arts, and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He is currently a lecturer at the ZHdK and lives in Zurich.

Timo Krstin studied general and comparative literature in Frankfurt am Main and theater directing at the Zurich University of the Arts. He lives and works as a freelance author and director in Zurich. His works are shown at important venues in the independent scene and in municipal theaters. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Stuttgart Author's Prize and has been invited to renowned festivals such as Premieres, Körber Studio Junge Regie, and Freischwimmer. In Zurich, he works regularly at Gessnerallee, Rote Fabrik, and Theater Winkelwiese. As an author, he has published the novels Leopardenmorde (klak-Verlag, 2022) and Wolfsmilch (Edition 8, 2024) as well as the poetry collection Niederschlagsarten (Aphaia, 2018).

Tara Rukeci Milivojević is a sociologist from Zrenjanin, where she is involved in the left-wing NGO Social Forum Zrenjanin. She publishes articles on social issues affecting people in Serbia, particularly in the rural region of Vojvodina, on the ZSF website and organizes civil resistance campaigns. She also researches and writes investigative reports. Through this work, she came into contact with the so-called «contract labourers» at Linglong. Together with journalist Ivana Gordić Perc, who also works in Zrenjanin, she uncovered the devastating conditions under which the workers lived and made their stories public until international reporters picked up on the case.

Marcel Babazadeh focuses as a sound engineer on room acoustics and classical music production in the areas of image/sound and sound design. He has many years of experience in international marketing, sales, and support for professional audio products and is also in demand as a seminar leader at various universities. He has also launched several musical projects of his own, including the «Digital Concerts» and the Altchemiefestival in Zurich. Together with stage designer Sophie Krayer, he also runs the Klang und Raum studio. Marcel sees sound as the starting point for immersive experiences and incorporates this fundamental understanding into every part of his work. For him, 3D sound is a matter of course both live on stage and in the studio. In the theater sector, he works with directors such as Wu Tsang, Timo Krstin, Anna-Sophie Mahler, Teresa Rotemberg, Simone Truong, and Bram Janssen at various independent and municipal theatres.

Branislav Jovančević, alias Kӣr, is a Serbian composer, music producer, and program curator who works at the intersection of contemporary electronic music, film, and theater music. Under the pseudonym Kӣr, he explores experimental soundscapes influenced by the musical heritage of the Balkans, contemporary sound design, lo-fi textures, and cinematic depth. His work has been presented at festivals such as Nuits Sonores, Sonica, UH FEST, musikprotokoll, and via the SHAPE+ platform. In the field of film, Branislav has composed original music for renowned feature films and short films, including Toprak ve Kanatlar (2025), Invoked (2022), and Suddenly (2022), for which he won the award for best film music at the International Turkish Film Festival Frankfurt. His compositions are characterized by subtle tension, emotional complexity, and the ability to transform images into immersive sound experiences. Branislav's artistic practice consistently explores identity, memory, and landscape through sound, combining personal expression with collective experience in music, film, and curatorial projects.

Cultural Office of the Canton of Zurich, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Landis and Gyr Foundation, artlink