Friday, November 2, 2007
Thank you, Hvala vam puno...
Dear Tamara Milošević, Zoran Galić, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Nenad Vukosavljević, Mojca Pungercar, Rasim Karalić, Fumiko Matsuyama, Boris Mitić, Mihajlo Jevtić, Jasna Krajinović, Sadik Salimović, Urszula Kahul, Davor Konjušić, Michael Tuckenbrodt, Pero Pavlović, Wilfried Adricola de Cologne, Kratkofil, Film Klub Mostar, Prijatelji Srebrenice
After all the organization stress has passed, we want to send you a big THANK YOU for having supported the 1st International Film Festival on Short Films and Documentaries in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Within the 3 days of festival, we showed 18 short films and documentaries produced by professionals and amateurs, from the region and beyond. The films were from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, France and Germany. They introduced the audience into war narratives, the life of miners and construction workers, of Roma, of young people in Srebrenica, of a woman living alone in a village, in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, presented life in Hiroshima, in France after the 2nd World War, in Palestine...Unfortunately, we could not screen all films which were send to us – some due to problems with the subtitle, some due to the late arrival and some because they did not fit in the final program. We are sorry for that, but hope to screen them at the next year’s festival – of course, only with your permission.
Even though the festival marked the first step in establishing a culture for documentaries in Srebrenica, we were happy to welcome all age groups. A driving motor for raising interest were definitely the four documentaries produced by film teams from Srebrenica. After the festival has taken place, we see the main strength of the festival in screening both, amateur films and professional films. It particularly served young film makers as source for new ideas, which was intensified by the workshop given by a professional film maker from Banja Luka on Sunday. The festival also introduced the audience in various methods of capturing social life in documentaries.
To our own surprise, the media showed an overwhelming interest in our festival. All major media, print and electronic, in Bosnia and Herzegovina reported about the festival - even, the evening news on BH1 called attention to it. Furthermore, the festival was backed up by the municipality of Srebrenica. In his opening speech, the mayor Abdurahman Malkic highlighted the importance of such a festival for the social life in Srebrenica – a place in which life is still shaped by the aftermaths of the genocide of 1995.
The realization of the festival was only possible with the support of all the film makers who agreed to show their films free of charge. Thank you again so much!!! Through the course of the organization we also established many fruitful relations to other film festivals, film-maker associations and platforms in the region and beyond which also contributed significantly to the success of the festival. Thank you so much! For the next year, the festival is planned as an Open-Air festival for the late Summer. We would be happy to welcome you then again in our festival team.
Hvala vam puno,
Ljubiša, Jane, Mikica, Nedeljko, Aco, Ida, Davorin, Duli, Sika, Neco, …
Savjet mladih Srebrenice
Ul. M.Tita.br 1
75430 Srebrenica
program 28.september
20.00
Opening of Festival by Ljubiša Milovanović and Ida Grandas/Sweden and Jane Felber/Germany
20.15
«Ne može da traje večno»
Nenad Vukosavljevic, Serbia/BiH 47 min
Relationship between Serbs and Bosniaks, ten years after the war, is the subject of the film. The war, which is still present at hearts and minds of many. How to overcome the pain, hatred, fear, the feeling of mistrust and misunderstanding? Can there be reconciliation after all and who is responsible for the violent past and the situation nowadays? Twenty-three persons give their responds and ask their own questions. Among them there are refugees, those who lost close family members, those who were children at wartime, former combatants, believers, altogether people who’s opinion is rarely heard and asked for. Although they never met, they run a dialogue offering a chance to reach better understanding of views from the other side, a dialogue which surely contains parts that may hurt someone.
21.00
Usvjetu ili ne...WoW
Savjet mladih Srebrenice BiH 10 min
21.15
Brastvo in Enotnost/Brotherhood and Unity
Mojca Pungercar, Slovenia 38 min
The project Brotherhood and Unity is the story about two highways and people who constructed them. The project includes photography and documentary film. The photo and video material for the project was recordedin April and May 2006 on the building site of the Hrastje – Lešnica highway section at Novo mesto in Slovenia. The highway section was opened on June 23nd. In 1958 were the Yugoslavian shock brigades building the Dolenjska highway, the part of the road called the Road of Brotherhood and Unity, in the same place. With the construction of the new one most of the old highway was demolished and rebuilt a new. The documentary gives an insight into the lives of men working on construction sites and living in single's home. Most of them heve only a temporary job in Slovenia. Times of shock brigades with the higher goal to bring people together are over, and today all that shock workers have in common is the struggle to survive. Slovenia, once a part of the common fatherland is now a foreign country for them.
21.45
Ja se zovem Hozić Safet/My name is Hozić Safet
Rasim Karalic, Croatia 20 min
22.10
Alltägliche Begebenheiten/Everyday Occurences
Fumiko Matsuyama, Germany 8 min
It is matter of the "daily occurrences", leaning on the literary texts by Austrian authoress Ingeborg Bachmann. "War is no more declared, but continued.."
program 29. september
20.00
Pretty Dyana – Boris Mitić, Belgrade/Serbia 45 min
www.dribblingpictures.com
An intimate look at Gypsy refugees in Belgrade suburb who make a living by transfoming Citroen's classic 2cv and Dyana cars into Mad ... all » Max-like recycling vehicles, with which they collect cardoard, bottles and scrap metal. These modern horses are much more efficient than the cart-pushing competition, but more important - they also mean freedom, hope and style for their crafty owners. Even the car batteries are used as power generators in order to get some light, watch tv and recharge mobiles! Almost an alchemist's dream come true! But the police doesn't allways find these strange vehicles funny...
20.50
Ja živim u Srebrenici/I live in Srebrenica – Prijatelji Srebrenice, Srebrenica/BiH 20 min
21.15
200 000 phantoms
Jan-Gabriel Periot, France 10 min
jgperiot.free.fr/FILMS/NIJUMAN%20NO%20BOREI/nijuman.htm
Hiroshima, 1914-2006
21.30
Eut elle ete criminelle/Even if she had been a criminal...
Jan-Gabriel Periot, France 10 min
jgperiot.free.fr/FILMS/EUT%20ELLE/even%20if%20she.htm
France, summer 1944. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war…
21.40
Nepogodan za sva vremena?
Zoran Galic, BiH 38 min
program 30. september
20.00
Sam sam sam da nisi/Alone, alone, you should never be alone
Mihajlo Jevtic, Serbia 33 min
20.35
Svestarna Anđela
Sadik Salimovic, Srebrenica/BiH 5 min
20.45
Predrasude
Prijatelji Srebrenice, Srebrenica/BiH 7 min
20.55
Izbrisani/The Erased
Davor Konjušić, Serbia/Hrvatska 32 min
21.30
Ljudi smo zar ne/We are humans, arent we?
Pero Pavlović, BiH 8 min
21.40
Cement
Tamara Milošević, Germany 55 min
In a small town in Serbia, fate is a cement factory. Before the end of socialism in Yugoslavia, just about everyone in Beocin worked at the local cement plant. The word unemployment was an unknown; people lived comfortably, with no ethnic or religious barriers between them. Times have changed. The factory was privatized and bought up by a French company which cut many jobs. The former workers try to sustain themselves by all possible means. And so taxi drivers spout lacking costumers to take anywhere. The only light in the darkness of creeping poverty is the Cement Box Club. Here we meet Darko, a 14- year-old boxing talent. Thanks to his brutal daily training he is Serbia-Montenegro's youth boxing champion. Darko has made his mind to become somebody, a more than ambitious goal in Beocin. Miško is Darko's coach. To support his family, he works as a seasonal worker at the cement factory. His greatest wish is that his sons Roki and Ervin may follow his footsteps and become boxing stars. Cement is the authentic portrait of a community that, though plunged into insecurity, never looses its sense of humour.
22.35
Message from Behind a Wall
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Germany 10 min
The segregation wall in Palestine is a fact. In November 2004, an artistic action against the wall ended, taking place at six different places in Palestine where walls were under construction, initiated by Palestine artists by inviting artists from different countries to paint an artistic message on the concrete. When Agricola de Cologne was in Bethlehem in February 2005, he visited several places where the Israeli were erecting the wall. The part of the wall he was filming, is situated in opposite of the AIDA refugee camp (UN), and was at that time a temporary playground for children. And these children made their own contribution to the huge wall paintings.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The Srebrenica DOKfilmfestival will take place from the 28th until the 30th September 2007 in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Within these 3 days, around 20 documentaries will be shown, both amateur and professional, from the region and beyond. If the weather allows for it, the films will be shown on a big screen at the park, in the centre of Srebrenica reaching as much as people as possible. There will be no entrance fee charged for watching the films.
The Srebrenica DOkfilmfestival is part of the project "My digital eye, point of view", a 6-month-project funded by Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung e.V. The project is implemented by «Savjet Mladih Srebrenice», the person in charge is Ljubiša Milovanić. In workshops, young people were introduced into the basics of film production. They have been assisted in their film projects and brought together with a German professional film maker. The result are three short documentaries about their life in Srebrenica. With the status of an NGO, «Savjet Mladih Srebrenice» is financially supported by «Co-operating Netherlands. Foundations for Central and Eastern Europe». Besides the film festival, the youth centre organizes annual events such as the Rock-Festival «Silvershine Town» and the Theatre Festival in Srebrenica.
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