Andrej Nosov, President of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, tells Aida Alic about the Days of Sarajevo festival in Belgrade, Serbia’s attitude towards its past and the crucial role artists can play in reconciliation.
“Should we still be discussing the war?“, is the motto of this documentary film by Goran Dević, who decided to interview three men – a Serb, a Croat and a Bosniak, who were all actively involved in conflicts that took place in former Yugoslavia.
Which language is ‘our language’? Do Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian really differ? Why are there bands in Bosnia which sing in English? Does language constitute identity? What is the position of young people living among a myriad of loan-words and with inexistence of language-based identity in Bosnia?
How well do we remember the war? Is it difficult to talk about it? Do we suddenly start remembering when talking about it?
“Interrogation” explores trauma, but not with a view of exploring human pain, but on the contrary – this film strives to open the abysses of war denial which have become the dominant, but unpronounced dimension of daily life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The film is a story of four young people from Eastern Bosnia who survived the Srebrenica genocide. Now as high school and college students they are in quest for meaning and their own existential path. Their confessions bring back memories of traumatic childhood in besieged Srebrenica.
In early 2008. Sarajevo was being gripped by a wave of juvenile delinquency which culminated on February 5 with the killing of sixteen-year-old Denis Mrnjavac. He was killed on his way from school, in broad daylight, in a tram full of people who didn’t even attempt to help him. One of the perpetrators, a minor as well, but also a multiple offender, told the police officers he knew they couldn’t touch him since he was a minor.
Jasna P. is looking for her two children, four-year-old Amar and nine-month-old Ajla, whom the Serbian Army had killed during the war in Bosnia and buried in a mass grave.
SF story about the return to Sarajevo after the war. It is the year of 2096 and the War for the Moon has just ended. When the Traveler returns from Mars to Sarajevo he will be met there by ghosts of his friends killed at war. A glimpse into the wrong time will make the rift between those who have remained and those who’d left become unbridgeable.
“Shopping” is a black comedy, the story of the latest trend of spending time at shopping malls, where families are gripped by shopping fever and a seemingly ordinary weekend turns into a complete shopping chaos.
In one house and around it love stories are interwoven. One love affects another. Love ghosts remain in quest for an answer to the same question: “What do I know of love?”
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Belgrade Festival “Days of Sarajevo”, organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), supported by the cities of Belgrade and Sarajevo, shall be held between the 14th and the 17th of May, 2009, representing contemporary music, cultural and social Sarajevo scene.
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Cultural manifestation “Days of Sarajevo” shall be held for the third time in Belgrade from the 14th to the 17th of May; Director of the Agency for Cooperation with NGOs and European Harmonization of the City of Belgrade speaks for “Free Bosnia” of an inner need for organizing such a manifestation
In scope of the “Days of Sarajevo” Festival in Belgrade “Dubioza kolektiv” shall hold a concert at the Youth Centre on May 14.
Irmin Imamovic a.k.a. Kondenzator, producer an DJ from Sarajevo. His sound is a specific mixture of techno, minimal and even disco, some call it minimal funk.
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Festival “Days of Sarajevo in Belgrade” is being held for the third time through rich theatrical, film and musical program, with some 300 artists from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina taking part.
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The third Festival “Days of Sarajevo in Belgrade” shall be held between Thursday, the 14th, and Sunday, the 17th of May
Ajna Zatrić has recently graduated from the Sarajevo Arts Academy, after having attended Medical School and Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts for several years.
Many artists from Sarajevo will visit Belgrade for the first time, and in this I see the deeper meaning of such a presentation of the two cities’ cultures, which had a very deep spiritual connection…
With engaged feminist lyrics, Starke like to communicate about intimate topics, challenging and encouraging the audience to do the same. Dark, eclectic and electrotransmitted beats contribute to boiling atmosphere created by this electro-DJ trio.
The first Queer Sarajevo Festival (QSF) was organized in September 2008. The Government, subtly and verbally, and the hooligans, brutally and physically, found themselves on the same side – against the Festival. The police was somewhere in between. Eight people were injured at the Festival, while the organizational team became a target of hate speech and constant threats.