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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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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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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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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Tour

The feature film “Tour” was premiered in 2008. It was produced in co-production with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. The film was directed and written by Goran Markovic. The film’s story is based in 1993, when six actors from Belgrade, pressured by a bad financial situation, unconscious of the seriousness of the state of war, agree to travel to the war-affected Bosnia, in order to perform the show there. This is an anti-war film that criticizes the absurdity of the war. Movie duration 120 minutes.

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Language: Serbian

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Stories from Vukovar, Sinisa Glavašević

Twenty four short lyrical stories about Vukovar, childhood, friends, life, war and the world surrounding us are the only legacy of the legendary war reporter from Vukovar. They are composed of warm stories about the basic human values that Siniša read to the radio listeners from the besieged city, and at the same time he sent them by fax from the demolished Vukovar to Zagreb just before the fall of the city. The book also contains war reports from Radio Vukovar, a book that should never be circumvented.

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Language: Croatian

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Boris Dežulović – “Fuck now a thousand dinars”

The action takes place in one day, from morning till dusk on Sunday, August 29, 1993, and the entire plot is based on a sort of comedy of confusion – the Bosniak and Croatian diversion platoon on the positions around Muzafer’s house came to a great and, as it turns out , “original” idea for wearing uniforms of the enemy for the purpose of a secret task, which leads to double confusion as soon as they find out about each other, because it brings in total disorder to undoubtedly the most important thing in a war – who is on “our” side and who is on “their” side. But before by the end of the day they make a strategy about what to do with each other and whether it should be trusted to the uniforms, six Croats and as many Bosniak soldiers not only point to the absurdity of the situation in which one group of soldiers positioned on the cemeteries, and the other group by the tower, fixedly look at soldiers whose uniforms appear to be “ours” when in fact they are “theirs”, but while they are waiting, they also go through their private stories from the past, through which each person is described in more detail regarding character, but also placed in a common context of the past. And in this context, the context of similar conditions, times and idols of growing up, intertwining and touching, their current position becomes even more meaningless.

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Language: Croatian

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Museum of War Childhood

Jasminko Halilović is the author of the project “Childhood in War”, which in June 2010 published an online call to people who grew up partly during the war to send their short answer to the question “What does a Childhood in War mean to your?”. The goal was to make a book that will present various aspects of this experience from a large number of short answers. In January, the book “Childhood in War: Sarajevo 1992-1995” was published. In February 2015, Halilovic gathered a team to create a collection of the future Museum of War Childhood . A collection of personal items, stories, audio and video testimonies, photographs, letters, drawings and other documents that illustrate the experience of growing up in the war are presented at the Museum of War Childhood. Every item shown within a museum exhibition or within guest exhibitions is followed by the story of its owner.

Availability: 30-32, Logavina, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina

Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

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