The War Within
In 1991 civil war broke out in Yugoslavia - such an incomprehensible, unimaginable crime against humanity that the rest of Europe has only recently begun to process the events. Science, media and art turn their focus on the Balkan region: they research, question and paint portraits. At the same time the generation which grew up during the war finds its language and testifies, with a hopeful view of the future. Two films which tell a tale of war and at the same time confront the question of the possibility of conveying the war within to the world outside.
We Lived our Ordinary Lives
This multi-layered piece combines documents of the International Criminal Court in The Hague with personal experiences of the war. Fragmentary testimonies are combined and juxtaposed to create a portrait of a divided and traumatized society.
- Niederlande
- 19:00 Min.
- Director: Daya Cahen
- Languages: bosnisch, englisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
The Place we Left
Six interviews with people who were all born in Sarajevo and left the city of their birth, most during the war. This work concentrates on their personal attempts to make sense of the circumstances in which they surprisingly found themselves in 1992. The protagonists talk about their experiences leaving the city, settling down somewhere else, being caught in the middle and about carrying the war forever within themselves.
- Deutschland, Bosnien und Herzegowina
- 58:00 Min.
- Director: Clarissa Thieme
- Languages: englisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012