Home in a foreign land

Documentary “Home in a foreign land” is about the people (refugees) who, after the war, exchanged their apartments and houses with people who have fled from them during the armed conflict in BiH. Authors of the film: Davorka Turk, Nedžad Novalić. Production: Center for Nonviolent Action (CNA, 2017)

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Language: Bosnian

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“Crime Without Punishment – the Suffering of Serbs in the Middle Podrinje”

A documentary about the suffering of Serbs during the war in the Bosnian territory of the municipalities of Bratunac, Skelani, Milici, Kalesija and Zvornik. In the film, witnesses report the loss of civilians and soldiers during 1993. For some of these crimes, Naser Oric was charged with the BiH Court. The film deals with individual stories and war crimes cases.

The author of the film is Slađana Zarić. The film was produced by RTS.

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Language: Serbian

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The Unforgiven

Documentary “The Unforgiven” of Danish director Lars Feldbale Petersen. Esad Lando has been trying to reconcile with his war-past for years. A war criminal is returning to BiH to meet with a friend, a former guard of the camp, his victims and his family.

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Language: Bosnian, English, Danish

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War in Mostar

Documentary produced by the British BBC. British journalists documented daily life in the eastern part of Mostar. The film is a set of testimonies about the war days by Mostar Bosniaks, under continuous shelling, by their neighbors Croats.

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Language: Bosnian, Croatian, English

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Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text, part one

Documentary program “Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text” was made in the production of Radio Television of Serbia. The author is Svetlana Janjićijević. The first part of this documentary explains how the text of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) – Memorandum – came into the public eye, ie, in the newspaper “Vecernje novosti” and what were the reactions to the text by the leading political figures of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, Dobrica Cosic and Slobodan Milosevic, as well as how the text was seen by Croatian and Slovenian politicians. They give their opinion on the document in addition to politicians and historians, sociologists, political scientists, writers and journalists. It features 25 speakers from Serbia and Croatia.
Duration 52 minutes.

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Language: Serbian

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See you in the Obituary

Documentary directed by Janko Balka from 1994. Based on the book “Criminal which Changed Serbia” by Aleksandar Knezevic and Vojislav Tufegdzic. The film is about the sudden rise in crime in Serbia during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It contains parts of the interviews with the leading people of the “Belgrade Underworld” and of the police in the 1990s, featuring photographs of leaders and members of criminal gangs.

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Language: Serbian

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Fortress

The documentary “Fortress” (2013) is about the memory of the war-time childhood of Sanja Burazerovic from Zavidovici during the wars of the 1990s in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The film’s author is Nenad Vukosavljevic. Duration of the film 4:27 minutes.

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Language: Bosnian, Serbian, English

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Fall of the Krajina

Filip Svarm’s documentary from 2007 gives an impression of the war in the Krajina, as well as the political and military details of fall of Krajina and subsequent exodus of the Serbian population. The film highlights the development of relations between Serbs in Croatia and the Croatian authorities since 1990 until the Operation Storm and the persecution of Serbs from Croatia in August 1995. The film follows events from the establishment of the autonomous Serb region in Croatia, in places with Serb majority populations.
Executive Production: Time Movie

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Language: Serbian

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Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text, part two

The second part of the documentary “Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text” was produced by Radio Television of Serbia in celebration of the thirty anniversary of the creation of the Memorandum, the text of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts SANU. The author is Svetlana Janjićijević. The second part of this documentary talks about the reasons why the text of the memorandum is interpreted as a war-racing and nationalist one, what was the national position of Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, and how the memorandum was quoted in the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague Tribunal as “evidence of the plan for the creation of a big Serbia” . The show lasts 52 minutes.

Availability: https://youtu.be/XD66eBzp2NE

Language: Serbian

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Documentaries by the Center for Nonviolent Action

Fortress” – memory of war, author Nenad Vukosavljevic, shot in 2013, voice: Sanja Burazerovic from Zavidovici, duration: 4:27 minutes

Visits of veterans” – Documentary on joint visits to places of suffering, by former fighters from BiH, Serbia and Croatia, author: Nedžad Horozović, 2009, duration: 16 min

Everyone would gladly throw a stone“, 2006, Serbian-Croatian author: Nenad Vukosavljević, Running time: 45 min. The second film from the “Simulated Dialogue” series which deals with the attitude of people of Serbian and Croatian descent.

Traces“, 2004 – talks of former fighters, author: Nenad Vukosavljevic
Duration: 55 min. Four former combatants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and four people close to them talk about their motivations to leave the war in the 1990s and their current views of the past and the knowledge they have gained in the meantime.

You do not hear a bird“, 2007 Bosnian-Croatian simulated dialogue, documentary, author: Nenad Vukosavljević, duration: 41 min.
Bosniaks and Croats talk about the war and the difficult legacy of the past, of hatred and pain, of fears and hopes.

It can not last forever” (2006), Documentary, by: Nenad Vukosavljević, duration: 47 min. the first film from the “Simulated Dialogue” series that discusses the attitude of Serbs and Bosniaks ten years after the war in Bosnia.

Availability: https://nenasilje.org/category/film/ ; https://nenasilje.org/2013/tvrdjava-sjecanje-na-rat/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/posjete-veterana-2009/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/film-pticu-ti-ne-cujes-2007/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/svi-bi-rado-bacili-kamen-2006/; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/film-ne-moze-da-traje-vecno-2006/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/film-tragovi-2004/

Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

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