Themes Of War And Reconciliation Featured At Sarajevo Film Festival
31.07.2010
This week Sarajevo's 16th annual film festival took place.,
References to mass graves were made not only for Bosnia.
Another country's mass graves were being discussed after viewing Iraqi director Mohamed al-Daradji's film "Son of Babylon."
The film explores the plight of a Kurdish woman as she searches for her missing son just after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Her search leads her on a gruesome journey through the mass graves of the Saddam Hussein regime.
Bosnia and Herzegovina (10) -- Analyses -- 2010
More about the Sarajevo Film Fest
31.07.2010
Every year tens of thousands of people stream into Sarajevo to watch films, attend parties, and line up outside the red carpet in the hopes of glimpsing a
famous movie star or director. This year Morgan Freeman is headlining the event and will be present for the screening of "Invictus," a film about South Africa's Nelson Mandela, at the festival finale on July 31.
Oscar-winning Bosnian film director Danis Tanovic's new film "Cirkus Columbia," a tragicomedy set in Sarajevo just before the siege of the city began in 1992, had its world premiere at the festival opening on July 23.
But this being Sarajevo, somber themes of war, remembrance, and reconciliation are omnipresent and have a specific resonance.
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