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DEALING WITH THE PAST 2022 I 3 4 IntroductionMašaMarković,Dealing with the Past Programme Manager 6 Programme Schedule 8 True Stories Market Mentors 10 In Youth Eyes Programme Mentors 17 Films 22 True Stories Market Selected Stories 24 ContentTeam
Introduction
The DEALING WITH THE PAST programme has had a clear mission since its start: to conduct hon est dialogue about our region’s recent past as a prerequisite to resolving the problems that stem from the Yugoslav Wars, which still strain our so cieties. Over the last seven years, we have shared many gut-wrenching but inspiring stories from around the world. With technological challenges, climate crisis and war in Ukraine, one is currently wondering more about our shared future, than about our common past. While our minds are perplexed about the future, somehow, It feels like certain lessons from the past are valid today.
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In these unprecedented times, when it seems that the world we used to know will cease to ex ist in the future, truth-seeking and fact-checking are more important than ever. But the anxieties of the world we have left behind will trickle into the new order. If we have learnt anything over the past year, I daresay it is that our personal lives can be turned upside-down in a matter of moments.
This year’s the Dealing with the Past programme will welcome authors renowned for their films about real life events that deeply touch our hearts and minds. At the same time, the programme will present some new voices, authors courageous enough not only to scratch the surface of the real ity we are living, but to question the position of an individual whose lives are deeply affected by the traumas of the recent events. While we are accumulating new traumas, the old ones haven’t been processed, reflected, or healed. The programme will open a cult film “Waltz with Bashir” by Ari Folman, the film that has changed perception what documentary film can be back in 2008. The film is based on director’s experiences as a young Israeli soldier in 1982 and through ani mation we explore the mysterious paths of our memory and experience, how trauma brings its own shield. It is a great pleasure to share with our audiences Ari’s latest film, the beautiful, thoughtprovoking, and now more than ever relevant “Where is Anne Frank”. In addition, we are bring ing an author who is very close to Sarajevo, a mas ter of cinema, Michael Winterbottom to present his latest film “Eleven Days in May” co-directed by Mohammad Sawaf. Michael and Mohammed in a
The Dealing with the Past programme also is wel coming 30 young people from Western Balkans as part of the “In Youth Eyes” programme that offers series of panels, closed discussions and debates on peace activism and reconciliation practices. “In Youth Eyes” is organized in collaboration with Re gional Youth Cooperation Office, Forum ZFD and USAID project PRO-Budućnost. Dealing with the Past programme is supported by Friederich Ebert Stiftung. Maša Marković, Dealing with the Past Manager
DEALING WITH THE PAST 2022 I 5 delicate, personal approach have presented the toil of the Gaza attack in 2021. As part of the Sara jevo Film Festival’s masterclasses, it will be a great honor to hear Ari Folman and Michael Winter bottom discuss their work and with focus on the topics that deal with real life-events and traumas connected to them. As part of the programme that features films of the renowned filmmakers, we will be presenting a film of the Dutch film maker Mijke de Jong who in a very intimate way portrays a journey of Fatima and Zahra, refugees trying to reach Europe. In addition, the audience will have a chance to revisit destinies of Vukovar’s residents in 1991 and 2008 in Eduard Galić’s “Sixth Bus”. American director Joseph Pierson in his film “What’s This Country Called Now? presents us an inspiring story of Bosnian journalist Aida Čerkez during the Siege of Sarajevo. The second part of the programme is led by a new generation of emerging filmmakers, such as Nataša Urban who in her winning film “Eclipse” uses solar eclipse in 1999 as a light motive for the collective trauma experience in Serbia in the aftermath of the wars in Yugoslavia. The selec tion also features a film of Bosnian filmmaker Alen Šimić “B4” who returns to his home, a place where his parents had been killed. “The Cutting” by Serbian director Davor Markinković, gives us the insight of the lives of people that have been displaced after the war and have been living in the camps their whole life.
Director: Davor Marinković Country: Serbia Director:B4 Alen Šimić Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
WEDNESDAY, 17TH OF AUGUST 19:00 Cineplexx ECLIPSE
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
SUNDAY, 14TH OF AUGUST 19:00 Cineplexx
7 / Screening THE
Cineplexx GREATNESS CASE
Director: Nataša Urban Country: Norway
Programme Schedule
SATURDAY,
WHERE IS ANNE FRANK
Director: Anna Shishova Country: Finland, Croatia, Norway 19:00 Cineplexx
Red Cross Society in B&H (Kranjčevićeva
Director: Ari Folman Country: Israel, France, Germany, United States, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
7 / Screening
Cineplexx
Director: Ari Folman Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, Israel, Netherlands, France MONDAY, 15TH OF AUGUST 19:00
ALONG THE WAY Director: Mijke De Jong Country: Netherlands TUESDAY, 16TH OF AUGUST
7 / Screening
12:00
7 / Screening THE NEW
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7 / Screening Dealing With the Past – Short Documentaries
WHAT’S THIS COUNTRY CALLED NOW?
Director: Joseph Pierson Country: United States CUTTING
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Exhibition: MARIUPOL 13TH OF AUGUST 19:00 Cineplexx
7 / Screening
DEALING WITH THE PAST 2022 I 7 THURSDAY, 18TH OF AUGUST 19:00 Cineplexx 7 / Screening ELEVEN DAYS IN MAY Director: Michael Winterbottom, Mohammed Sawwaf Country: United Kingdom, Palestine FRIDAY, 19TH OF AUGUST 19:00 Cineplexx 7 / Screening 6TH BUS Director: Eduard Galić Country: Croatia
NATAŠA DAMNJANOVIĆ, born in 1981 in Belgrade, where she graduated film editing at the Faculty of Drama Arts. She participated in the 2008 Sarajevo Tal ent Campus, 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus, was nominated for the 2010 Robert Bosch Stiftung Co-production Prize, in 2012 she participated as a script editor trainee to the Torino FilmLab, as well as in 2013 EAVE Producer’s Workshop. Since 2006 she is the co-founder of DART film, a production company based in Belgrade. So far she produced two feature films - HUMIDITY by Nikola Ljuca (Berlinale Forum 2016, FEST 2016 – Best Film, Best Director, Best Male Actor, “Nebojsa Djukelic” jury special mention, Valencia Int FF – Jury Special Mention, Five Lakes Film Festival - Best Script, Vilnius Int FF, SFF, etc.) and ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH by Dane Komljen (Locarno 2016 - Signs of Life, Sarajevo FF, New York FF, IFF Rotterdam, Valdivia IFF, Mar del Plata, FICUNAM, Jeonju etc.), edited several documentaries and a vast number of short films. She actively pursues European co-productions and one of the latest films she co-produced ICH WAR ZUHAUSE ABER by German director Angela Schanelec premiered in Berlinale Competition in 2019, won the Silver Bear for Best Director and was nominated for European Film Award. Market Mentors:
ROBERT ZUBER – born in 1976 in Pula. For 18 years, he has worked across all segments of media in Croatia and was twice awarded by the Croatian Journalists’ Association. After gaining necessary professional experience as a journalist and editor while working, among others, for BBC, Radio 101 and Nova TV, he started working for the Croatian public broadcaster, HRT, where he spent 11 years inves tigating various social and humanitarian issues, mostly through his TV show THE MISSION. He started making documentaries in 2001, when he completed his first documentary film, NA STANICI U PULI, which became the most successful the atrically released documentary in Croatia that year. His second autobiographical documentary, AN ACCIDENTAL SON, filmed within the UNICEF ‘Every Child Needs a Home’ project, received the Oktavijan award for the best documentary at the Croatian Film Days festival. His next documentary, MILA SEEKS SENIDA, won the human rights award of the Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2017, he directed MILLION DOLLAR LIFE which won the “Golden Studio” media award for the best Croa tian documentary. After spending three years at the helm of HRT’s Documentary Production Department, in 2016 he quit his job with the public broadcaster to establish his own production company ToroLab. ToroLab produces content for digital platforms, as well as documentary films and series. He also works as an associated professor at the Vern University in Zagreb.
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TUE STEEN MILLER worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consul tant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network). From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Deal ing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy. And writes reviews at www.filmkommentaren.dk MILA TURAJLIC – is an award-winning director born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her films have screened at numerous festivals including Toronto and Tribeca, and have been released theatrically in Europe, North America and across the for mer Yugoslavia. Her most recent film THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING (2017) was HBO Europe’s first co-production with Serbia. It won 32 awards including the IDFA Award for Best Documentary Film, the Grand Prix for Best historical documentary released in France in 2018, the IDA Award for Best Writing and was nominated for the LUX Prize the European Parliament. Mila’s debut fea ture doc, CINEMA KOMUNISTO (2011) played at over 100 festivals and won 16 awards including the Gold Hugo and the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of Archi val Footage. Mila is currently in post-production on her third feature film, THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, an archival road trip through the archives of African libera tion movements of the 50’s and 60’s filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito.
AJNA JUSIĆ graduated in psychology at the University of Sarajevo. She attended the Academy for Young Leaders in Civil Society, and successfully completed the School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe. She is the president of the Association “Forgotten Children of War”. She fights for women who survived rape during the war and children born in the war, the rights of the LGBT community, minorities, and children with special needs. The biggest focus of her work is human rights. Through her engage ment and struggle for the rights of children born because of the war, Jusić also became the author of the first world exhibition on children born because of the war and women survivors from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The exhibition is called “Breaking Free” and has become and internationally recognized exhibition. Currently, Jusic is trying to make Bosnia and Herzegovina the first country in the world to have a law on children born as a result of war rape and children whose fathers are members of foreign humanitarian organizations and whose fathers were foreign peacekeepers. She was born in 1993 and believes that only with solidarity, empathy, humanity and dialogue can we build a better and healthier society for future.
H.E AHMED ALJARWAN is the founder and the president of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, and the President of the Arab Expert Union. He was a member of the Feder National Council of the Unit ed Arab Emirates, and a President of the Arab Parliament for for two consecutive rounds. The Arab Par liament is the legislative body of the Arab League created at the Arab League Summit of 2001-Amman. He was a diplomat of UAE in Great Britain and United States of America for several years. H.E Aljarwan was a Member of Board of Directors of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry from 2008-2013. With nearly 40 years of experience to his credit, Mr. Al Jarwan excels as the president of the Arab Experts Union and the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, which aims to promote the value of tolerance and culture of peace, to fight against discrimination, religious sectarianism and ethnocentrism, to develop the norms of international law, and to strengthen the principles of tolerance for achieving peace.
AIDA ČERKEZ is a writer, manager and editor with 20 years experience in covering the Balkan region for major international media organisations. She was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1962, and grew up in the former Yugoslavia and Germany. Aida Cerkez became chief of the Associated Press (AP) Sarajevo bureau in 1994, while the Bosnian capital was under siege. She assumed responsibility for the AP’s coverage of the ongoing conflict in words and images, as well as managing logistics and security for more than and dozen local employees in three field offices, and for visiting correspondents. In 1995, Ms.Cerkez won the Associated Press’ Gramling Award for best managed media operation. In 2005 Aida Cerkez joined the board of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, based in Sarajevo and as of 2017, she is tnews editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
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ADA SOKOLOVIĆ, born on May 3, 1990 in Sarajevo. She graduated from the Third Gymnasium in Sara jevo, then “Visual arts and visual design communication” at the International University of Sarajevo. I made the first film on in the first year of studies under the name “seconds”, after which they followed documentary films “Letter”, “Granica”, “I love SFK”. After completing her studies, she started documen tary series “Perspective” which is dedicated to young people in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The most significant work in her career so far, he was on the set feature film “On the milky way” by Emir Kusturica.
AMER KAPETANOVIĆ has been working as a diplomat for two decades. Before moving to Regional Co operation Council (RCC), where he is currently serving as Head of the Political Department, Kapetanovic was Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH, MFA BiH spokesman, Head of MFA BiH EU Department, Minister-Counsellor in BH Embassy in FR Germany, reporter and columnist. He was the President of Trust ees of BH Film Fund, helping BH Film industry get closer to EU funds, thus paving the way for membership in specially designed EU programs. He graduated political science at University of Sarajevo and attended fellowship program at Queen Mary University of London. He is author and co-author of dozens of publi cations, books and research. Married to Tatjana Kapetanovic and has two daughters, Lana and Juli.
DINO ABAZOVIĆ is full-time professor of Sociology at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has also worked as the Director of the Human Rights Center of the University of Sarajevo and as the Academic Coordinator of the Religious Studies Program of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at University of Sarajevo. He has published a number of chapters and papers in English and the South-Slavic languages, including three books in Bosnian (“Bosnian Muslims between Secularization and Desecularisation”, 2012; “Religion in Transition: Essays on Religion and Politics”, 2010, “For God and Na tion: Sociological approach to Religious Nationalism”, 2006). He has also co-authored a book with Jelena Radojković and Milan Vukomanović (Religions of the World: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, 2007), and edited six books (including: A Short Introduction in the Problem of Political Will: Case Study of B-H with Asim Mujkic, 2015 and Post-Yugoslavia: New Cultural and Political Perspectives, with Mitja Velikonja,
DAMIR ŠAGOLJ born in 1971 in Sarajevo, is a Bosnian photographer and journalist. He completed pow er engineering studies in Moscow and Sarajevo but the Bosnian war and its total destruction meant a change in career for Damir. In 1996 he joined Reuters news agency as theirs Bosnia based photojournal ist. For next 22 years Damir travelled the world and reported on major news stories for the agency –mostly on conflicts, civil and other disturbances and natural catastrophes, but also on contemporary and other issues. He lived in Russia, Thailand, China and spent years in the Middle East. Damir’s work was recognised with industry’s major awards – the Pulitzer prize and World Press Photo among many others. He holds a master degree from the University of Arts in London. Currently, Damir lives in Sarajevo and teaches photography at the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts.
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DINA MEMIĆ is a historian and curator from Sarajevo. She started her professional museum career at the Heritage Museum in Konjic. She had worked at the Memorial Complex Tunnel of Hope, where she dealt with the phenomenon of the siege of Sarajevo and their musealization. Today, she is the curator of the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and contributes to the development and strengthening of the museum’s potential through her work in the Archives Collection and the Documentation Center. She is the author of permanent and tematics museum exhibitions, and in her career she has been involved in numerous museum programs and projects. In her scientific work she deals with historical and museo logical topics. Her narrow professional focus is the culture of remembrance in contemporary museum practices.
BEDRANA RIBO is an Austrian politician from the Green Party. She has been a member of the National Council since October 23, 2019. Bedrana Ribo attended elementary school in her native town of Travnik in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992 she came to Austria. After secondary school in Graz, she graduated from the commercial academy in Monsbergergasse, where she graduated from high school in 2003. She then began studying business administration at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, which she completed in 2011 as a Bachelor of Science. She completed a subsequent master’s degree in Global Studies in 2015 as a Master of Arts. From 2012 to 2013, Ribo was a district councilor in the Jakomini district of Graz and from 2012 to 2015 a member of the city party board of the Grünen Graz, from 2013 as finance officer. In 2015 she became a member of the municipal council of the city of Graz. In the Green Parliament Club she is the spokeswoman for senior citizens and care.
2014). In 2012 Abazović was awarded a research fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS).
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JASMINA HOSTERT, MdB, has been elected to the German Parliament in 2021. She is a member of the Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, and the Sports Committee of German Bundestag. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 2009, she was elected deputy chair of the SPD BadenWürttemberg in 2018. In addition, she is President of the Württemberg Association for Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports (WBRS). Jasmina Hostert was born in Sarajevo on December 3, 1982. After being seriously injured, she fled the war and came to Germany in 1993 with her father. Here, she was taken in by her foster mother, Maria Hostert. After finishing secondary school in Bonn, she went to the UK and achieved her A-Levels at King’s School Canterbury in 2002. From 2003 to 2009, she studied political science, modern history, and art history at the University of Bonn (M.A.). Mrs. Hostert is married and has two children. Between 2013 and 2016, she was head of the office for Florian Wahl, a Member of State Parliament in Baden Württemberg. Afterwards, she became managing director of the SPD regional parliamentary group in Stuttgart. She worked as a history educator at the House of History in Stuttgart from 2015 to 2019.
JASMIN BEGIĆ joined BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 2021. Jasmin is a veteran reporter covering issues of governance, politics, transitional justice and war crimes. Prior to joining the BIRN BiH he has worked for more than a decade in on the Sarajevo Cantonal TV, where he was a member of the Informa tive section. Jasmin is the author of BIRN BiH’s special project “44 - Months Under Siege”. Marking the 30th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, the project features the video testimonials of 44 people - one for each month of the military blockade - recalling wartime hardships, atrocities and brief moments of joy.
JOHANN SATTLER is the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina and is the European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina as of 1 Sep tember 2019. He graduated from Innsbruck University in 1994 with a Diploma/Master in Political Science and Slavic Languages and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Vienna in 2008. Throughout his previous experience, and his most recent experience as Austrian ambassador to Albania, Ambassador Sattler has had a particular focus on the Western Balkans. In 1996 he joined the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the Human Rights Department. In 1997, he joined the European Community Monitoring Mission, where he was posted to Sarajevo and Tirana. More recently, he was the Head of the Western Balkans Unit within the Directorate for Eastern/South Eastern Europe at the
DŽENETA KARABEGOVIĆ is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Salzburg. Her academic inter ests are in international political sociology with a focus on migration, transnationalism, diaspora, educa tion, remembrance, transitional justice, foreign policy, and the Balkans. She is the co-editor (with Adna Karamehic-Oates) of the forthcoming Bosnian Studies – Perspectives from an Emerging Field with the University of Missouri Press.
GREGOR CHRISTIANMEYER is currently working as a Mercator Fellow on International Affairs with forum ZFD in Sarajevo. After completing his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History in Münster and Florence, he gained practical experience at the German Federal Academy for Security Policy and the External Action Department of the European Bishops’ Conference, among others. Parallel to this and his postgraduate studies in Global Politics and Global History of Europe at Georg-August-Universität Göt tingen, he used to coordinate the young editorial team of the EUSTORY History Campus. In his Mercator project he is examining the contributions of international youth exchange and participation to mediumterm peacebuilding and reconciliation, with a special focus on Dealing with the Past.
PAUL LOWE is a Reader in Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication, Univer sity of the Arts, London, UK. Paul is an award-winning photographer, educator and researcher, whose work is represented by VII Photos, and who has been published in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer and The Independent amongst others. He has covered breaking news the world over, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s release, famine in Africa, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the destruction of Grozny. His book, Bosnians, documenting 10 years of the war and post war situation in Bosnia, was published in April 2005 by Saqi books. His research interest focuses on the photography of conflict, and he has contributed chapters to the books Picturing Atroc ity: Photography in Crisis (Reaktion, 2012) and Photography and Conflict. His most recent books include Photography Masterclass published by Thames and Hudson, and Understanding Photojournalism, coauthored with Dr. Jenny Good, published by Bloomsbury Academic Press, and Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo co-authored with Kenneth Morrisson also with Bloomsbury.
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RANKO KRIVOKAPIĆ is a Montenegrin politician serving as the minister of foreign affairs since 28 April 2022. He is a former long-term President of the Parliament of Montenegro from 2003 to 2016 and the President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2002 until his resignation in 2017. He is currently the honorary president of the SDP. He is the longest-serving President of the Parliament of Montenegro in
RALF MELZER, born 1967, is a German historian and journalist and since 2004 staff member of the Fried rich Ebert Stiftung (FES), a non-profit political foundation close to the German social democratic party SPD. Among a variety of responsibilities in Germany and abroad he served as the foundation’s resident director in Tunisia, as the head of the foundation’s working unit on combatting right-wing extremism and as the head of the FES office in Munich. Since 2020 he is the director of the FES regional office Dialogue Southeast Europe based in Sarajevo. He intensively published on the German history in the 20th cen tury, on anti-Semitism and on the political far right. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from the Freie Universität Berlin.
NATAŠA URBAN is a documentary film director and editor working professionally since 2005. Her films, such as Journey of a Red Fridge (IDFA First Appearance Competition 2007, IDFA Top 25 Audience Favor ites 2007) and Big Sister Punam (UNICEF Award for Children Rights), have been screened at over 100 in ternational film festivals and have received 40 awards. They have aired on major TV networks worldwide, including ARTE, RAI, ZDF, DR2, YLE, ORF, RSI, and PBS, and are part of educational programs in schools around the globe, from Ghana to Mongolia. Nataša graduated in 2001 from Bucharest’s University of Arts, in the Department of Photography and Video. She also holds a Master’s degree in Photography, awarded by the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2008. Between 2005-2013, Nataša made films under the name of LUNAM DOCS. She took part in ESoDoc 2006, IDFAcademy 2007, IDFA Summer School 2014, Berlinale Talents 2015, and Werner Herzog Rogue Film School 2016.
LEJLA GAČANICA is a PhD candidate in law, currently working as a legal expert and independent re searcher in the field of transitional justice with a focus on the politics and culture of remembrance. She is the author of published articles, analytical, scientific and research papers in these fields.
Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He took up ambassadorial duties in Albania in 2016. He was born in 1969 in Austria. Apart from native German, Ambassador Sattler is fluent in English and Russian, and proficient in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Albanian.
NICOLAS MOLL, born in 1965 in Brussels, holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Freiburg (Germany), and has been living in Sarajevo since 2007. He is working as an independent researcher and as free-lance trainer in the fields of dealing with the past, international cooperation and civil society development. More information: https://www.nicolasmoll.eu/
14 I DEALING WITH THE PAST 2022 the country’s history. He was elected 12th President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE PA which is the greatest international post any Montenegrin has been elected until now. Also, Krivokapić is the first Slavic person elected to this post. He is the founder of the regional initiative Cetinje Parliamen tary Forum. He has been awarded with the Romanian national order, medal of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as many other awards.
REFIK HODŽIĆ is a writer, journalist and strategic communications specialist from Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has worked for more than 25 years in the field of transitional justice, with a particular focus on the role of media and communications. He currently works as a strategic communications con sultant on Syria with the European Institute for Peace and the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, and recently in Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Hodzic served as ICTJ’s director of communications from 2011-2017. While with the ICTJ Hodzic worked in various capacities as an expert in strategic com munications in transitional justice processes on contexts as diverse as the former Yugoslavia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Colombia, Kenya, Guatemala, Syria, Canada, Uganda and Nepal. Hodzic served with the Inter national Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia from 2000–2004 and 2006–2010 as the Tribunal’s spokesman and outreach coordinator for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the first head of the public information and outreach section of the Court of Bosnia. In 2004, Hodzic co-founded XY Films, an independent film and television production company producing documentary films dealing with the legacy of war crimes committed during the 1990s. With XY Films he authored award-winning documentaries and television series. Hodzic has published extensively in international media and academic publications on victims’ rights and the relationship between media and transitional justice. He is one of the founders of “White Armband Day,” a globally-recognized grassroots campaign for the rights of victims’ families in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
BEKIR HALILOVIĆ born in Srebrenica on January 8, 1994. He finished high school in his hometown, and is a graduate student at the Faculty of Law at the University of East Sarajevo. Currently he serves as the president of the Assembly of the Adopt Srebrenica Association, in which is he also engaged in project management, activity management and work with young people. At Adopt Srebrenica, he works on the development of the archival platform Documentation Center, where archival material related to pre-war
ZIYAH GAFIĆ (Regional Director, VII Academy Sarajevo) is an award-winning photojournalist and educator based in Sarajevo focusing on societies locked in a perpetual cycle of violence, and on Muslim communi ties around the world. He covered major stories in over 50 countries including conflicts in Chechnya, Pal estine, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Ziyah’s work received many prestigious awards such as multiple awards from World Press Photo, Grand Prix Discovery of the Year at Les Rencontres d’Arles, Hasselblad Masters Award, Visa pour l’Image, Photo District News, Getty Images grant for editorial photography, TED fellowship, Prince Claus grant, National Geographic Society, Pulitzer Center and Magnum Emergency fund grant. His work is regularly published in leading international publications. Ziyah authored several monographs including Troubled Islam – Short Stories From Troubled Societies, Quest for Identity, and most recently, Heartland. Ziyah is a contributing photographer to National Geographic, member of VII photo agecny, TED speaker and Logan fellow.
ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ born 1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a visual artist whose practice involves film, photography, objects, drawings and installations. She has received widespread acclaim for the poignant intimacy and social commentary that have become the main elements of her work. Taking up the subjects that arise from non-linear historical narratives, as well as personal histories, Kamerić places her focus on the politics of memory, modes of resistance in human life and consequential idiosyncra sies of women’s struggle. By insisting on empathy as the founding communicative mechanism between herself, her subjects and spectators, Kamerić warns of, and at the same time creates, powerful political statements.
HANA SOKOLOVIĆ is a psychologist, journalist and an activist. She has worked as a TV journalist for about three years as a reporter, presenter and editor at N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina, CNN’s exclusive subsidiary for the Balkans, and has been active in the NGO sector for the past two years. She is the founder of the citizens’ association Network of Activist Changes. She has worked as a moderator and facilitator of a number of events, panels and discussions for local and international organizations. Hana is currently a psychotherapist in education. She is an alumnus at the School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe. INES BULAJIĆ has been working with the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) since January 2020. For over two years, she had been a Project Coordinator for the ROUTE WB6 project on youth volun teerism in the region. She has a successful background in project development and management, public relations, and event management, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region, and the EU, including being Project Coordinator of the Creative Europe Desk in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Senior Communications Consultant in Ecorys Brussels. Her expertise includes advocacy and outreach campaigns and strengthen ing organizational capacities. She holds a BA in Journalism, is an MBA candidate in Business Communica tion Management, and has an LSPR certificate. Her passion is communication activism.
Srebrenica is collected, and which is then served to those who are looking for this type of material. It also works in the organization of the International Memory Week, which is a program whose goal is to draw attention to Srebrenica outside the commemoration period. He is actively involved in photography, graphic design and video production. He is the co-author of the publications “A place of life” and “Adopt Srebrenica – Story of Us”, as well as the photographic exhibitions “A place of life” and “The Lost homes: Srebrenica”, which shows devastated economic and family facilities in Srebrenica. For this year’s Interna tional Memory Week, he is engaged on the exhibition “The left behind”, which will present objects found in war-ravaged buildings.
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LEJLA HODŽIĆ gratuated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, From 1993 she works in contempo rary arts field (Obala Art Center Sarajevo 1993-94, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art SCCA/pro.ba 1997-2003, from 2004 as freelance) as curator of numerous art exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. Costume designer of four awarded feature films directed by Jasmila Žbanić: Grbavica, 2006; On The Road, 2010; For Those Who Can’t Speak, 2012; Island Of Love, 2014; and short films by Jasmila Žbanić, Sasa Peševski, Ermin Bravo, Alen Šimić, Alban Ukaj. Since 2010, she has worked in costume design and scenography for about 60 theatre plays in theaters in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region (direct ed by Dino Mustafić, Admir Glamočak, Paolo Magelli, Pjer Žalica, Selma Spahić, Tanja Miletić-Oručević, Andras Urban, Boris Liješević, Aleš Kurt, Kokan Mladenović etc.) for which she was awarded at the Festi vals in Jajce (2011, 2013, 2016), Zenica (2017, 2021) and Užice (2019).
MARINA ĐAPIĆ is the founder of Street Arts Festival Mostar and has been working on its production since 2012, which resulted in one of the largest and most beautiful open-air galleries in BiH and the region. She is a representative of the official festival platform of the Rezon Association, and through that platform she and her team promote urban culture, contemporary and public art in Mostar and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has ten years of experience in cultural management, working with young people and networking.
OGNJEN GLAVONIĆ was born in 1985 in Yugoslavia. His short films were selected in more than fifty inter national film festivals. His first mid-length documentary, Zivan Makes a Punk Festival (2014), premiered at Cinéma du Réel. This film has been screened at more than forty international film festivals including Rotterdam (2015), CPH:DOX (2014), IndieLisboa (2015) and others. His documentary Depth Two, pre miered at the Berlinale Forum in 2016. It won best film awards at DokuFest Prizren, Message to Man St. Petersburg, OpenCity Docs London, Festival dei Popoli Firenze and Kassel Dokfest, among others The
SARAH HEES-KALYANI is a political analyst at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Graduating with a masters de gree in Political Science and a postgraduate studies in development politics, Sarah has worked in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and India, leading a regional project on Afghanistan. Her passion for people, politics and adventure , has inspired her work and travels through Europe, Asia and Africa. Sarah has recently joined the Eastern Europe department and is the desk officer for the Western Balkans.
16 I DEALING WITH THE PAST 2022 Load, his first feature-length fiction film, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival 2018. Ognjen was a member of the Jury for the Best First Feature Award at the Berlinale 2020.
Waltz with Bashir Israel, France, Germany, United States, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, 2008, Colour, 90 min, Hebrew, Arabic, German, English Director: Ari Folman Screenplay: Ari Folman
WHERE IS ANNE FRANK begins with a miracle: Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary, comes to life in present-day Amsterdam. Unaware that seventy-five years have gone by, Kitty is convinced that if she is alive, then Anne must be alive too. WHERE IS ANNE FRANK tells the story of Kitty’s quest across contemporary Europe to find her beloved friend. Armed with the precious diary and with help from her friend Peter, who runs a secret shelter for undocumented refugees, Kitty fol lows Anne’s traces, from the Annex to her tragic end in the Holocaust. Disoriented by our broken world, and the injustices that child refugees endure, Kitty wants to fulfill Anne’s cause. Through her honesty, she presents a message of hope and generosity addressed to future generations. One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by twenty-six vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early 1980s. Folman is surprised that he can’t remember a thing about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Folman delves deeper and deeper in to the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.
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Where Is Anne Frank?
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Belgium, Luxembourg, Israel, Netherlands, France, 2021, Colour, 99 min, English Director: Ari Folman Screenplay: Ari Folman
The New Greatness Case Finland, Croatia, Norway, 2022, Colour, 92 min, Russian Director: Anna Shishova Screenplay: Anna Shishova
Along the Way Netherlands, 2022, Colour, 80 min, Farsi Director: Mijke De Jong Screenplay: Jolein Laarman, Jan Eilander, Mijke De Jong
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Anya was an ordinary teenager who dreamed of making life in Russia better. In March 2018, she was arrested and incarcerated on charges of forming an extremist group with the aim of violently overthrow ing the government. During three following years, her mother Julia desperately struggles to prove her daughter’s innocence. Fighting for justice and learning the real state of affairs step-by-step, Julia has been transformed from an apolitical citizen into a passionate human rights activist. The border of Iran and Turkey. Dozens of people with backpacks, babies, children. Suddenly shots are heard. Bright lights search the environment. Two girls run into the darkness, calling for their families. Zahra and Fatima, identical twins, are separated from their sisters and their mother during their flight to Europe. They wind up back in Iran, while their mother and sisters are driven into Turkey. Nineteen years old, all alone, they don’t know who to trust, where their family is, or what to do next. Here begins a journey that they seem to have no control over.
At the unveiling of a memory plaque where his parents were killed, a director meets the man who saved his life on that very night twenty-six years ago.
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Screenplay: Joseph Pierson, Aida Čerkez Robinson
WHAT’S THIS COUNTRY CALLED NOW? is based on the experiences of Aida Čerkez, a Bosnian woman who worked as a reporter throughout the Siege of Sarajevo. In 1994, on the eightieth anniversary of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Aida had the idea of finding a witness to that seminal event in world history. She found Ismet, now ninety years old, who was ten years old on that fateful day in 1914. He witnessed the shot that triggered the First World War and continued to live in Sarajevo through the years of conflict that followed. Aida interviews Ismet and in the process shares her own perspective on life during wartime.
B4 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020, Colour, 13 min, Bosnian Director: Alen Šimić Screenplay: Alen Šimić
What’s This Country Called Now? United States, 2018, Colour, 37 min, Bosnian Director: Joseph Pierson
On 11 August, 1999, most of Europe was engrossed by a total solar eclipse, which briefly enveloped Earth in darkness. While the world at large celebrated, most of Serbia’s population, fearful of the lunar shadow, barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers. Using this event as a metaphor for a nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices, in this essay documentary director Nataša Urban confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past, and the evil that is still on the loose today.
The Eclipse Norway, 2022, Colour, 110 min, Serbian, Romanian Director: Nataša Urban Screenplay: Nataša Urban CUTTING represents two generations of refugees who are still trying to create a new identity after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Mirjana and Borislav spent most of their lives in a collective centre in Serbia. Now, they take a journey into the past to embrace the future and make roots and a new home.
Director: Davor Marinković Screenplay: Davor Marinković
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Eleven Days in May
A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search.
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United Kingdom, Palestine, 2022, Colour, 85 min, Arabic, English Director: Michael Winterbottom, Mohammed Sawwaf Screenplay: Michael Winterbottom, Mohammed Sawwaf
During the battle of Vukovar, a young American is trying to locate a man from her past, but he is never to be found. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared.
Over the course of eleven days in May 2021, more than sixty children were killed in Gaza. They should never be forgotten. Narrated by Kate Winslet, with music by Max Richter, this film is a diary of those days.
6th Bus Croatia, 2022, Colour, 103 min, Croatian, English
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Through archives and personal testimony, the film tells the story of each child as an individual with many of the same hopes, dreams, and ambitions of children everywhere.
Director: Eduard Galić Screenplay: Dominik Galić
Ešef Džananović survived concentration camps “Keraterm”, “Trnopolje” and “Omarska” - he witnessed murders and beatings. In the camp he learned that his family had been killed. He lost five family mem bers, sons Alen and Ajdin aged four and nine, a sister aged 17, his wife aged 32 and his mother. Today, he is fighting for the truth and for building a monument to the murdered children. The authorities of the city of Prijedor prevent him. “I am most sorry that my neighbors all the way to Prijedor know about my family, my sons, they all know who killed them, where they are hidden, but unfortunately I did not find the remains”, is his message. Dealing With The Past –True Stories Market: Selected stories
The Story of Dženita Mulabdić
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The Story of Ešef Džananović
The story of Dženita Mulabdić is the story of 30 years of impunity for the crimes of paramilitary units in Bijeljina. Mulabdić watched with her own eyes the brutal crimes of the Serbian Volunteer Guard, called Akranovci, in Bijeljina. Those crimes marked the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which 100,000 people were killed. Her husband was killed before her eyes, and she also saw some of the other murders. Today, the street where she watched those crimes is named “The Street of Serbian Voluntary Guard”. She testified about her experiences to the investigators, but no one was ever convicted of her husband’s murder. “It hurts me that no one ever answered for this crime”, is her message.
THE BALKAN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING NETWORK (BIRN) Contact for the story: Enes Hodžić enes.hodzic@birnnetwork.org
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Depths of Velebit Filip Škiljan (42) and Milan Radanović (45) are historians from Zagreb. The remains of the Ustasha death camp are hidden in the hills of Velebit. Filip and Milan are trying to find these remains, once and for all, while Ivo Goldstein (64) reads a letter that arrived to the recipient (his father) 64 years later. The film “Depths of Velebit” deals with the fate of the victims of fascism and the continuous “culture of forget ting” and erasure from the collective memory of everything that was once a place of union, that is, anti-fascism, which, at its core value, aimed to unite differences. Today these differences are reason for new killing grounds.
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Contact for the story: Jovana Blanuša - jovana.b@nextgame.rs
Contact for the story: Aida Trepanić aida.trepanic@birnnetwork.org
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THE BALKAN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING NETWORK (BIRN) is a regional network of non-governmen/aor ganisations that promote freedom of speech, human rights, and democratic values in Southeast Europe.
BIRN has developed a specific network structure that includes local independent organisations gath ered around an umbrella organisation – Balkan Investigative Regional Reporting Network (BIRN Hub) – a structure that has the advantage of combining local, nation-based expertise with unique regional co-operation.
A Hero from the Arena For those whose loved ones were killed or disappeared during the Second World War in Yugoslavia, war wounds did not stop in 1945. In that less visible war after the war, in the struggle to find the missing and reunite families, Marino Zurli, a discreet hero of great deeds, also participated. This Croatian writer and journalist of Arena has been publishing stories and photos about the missing for ten years, putting together separated families, finding lost people and restoring joy to the hearts of those who believed that their loved ones will never appear again. In his lifetime, Marino Zurli managed to connect 150 family.
This is a story about him.
Team Project Manager: Maša Marković Project Coordinator: Ishak Jalimam & Lamija Čizmić Host of the programme Dealing with the Past: Robert Tomić Zuber Sarajevo Film Festival / Zelenih beretki 12, 71000 Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina tel. +387 33 221 516 / +387 33 209 411 / +387 33 263 380 / fax +387 33 263 381 www.sff.ba | info-sff@sff.ba | dwp@sff.ba
