GLOBAL VOICES (9/9/2015)
Considered the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb troops at Srebrenica in 1995. A new film focusing on survivors of the Srebrenica genocide premiered at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival on August 17
On August 17, Bosnian director Samir Mehanović presented his documentary film The Fog of Srebrenica to a packed cinema hall the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.
The film tells the story of Mehmed, Hatidža, Ahmed and Zinahida, four survivors of what most define as the worst crime committed on European soil since the Second World War. Over a period of seven days during the Bosnian War in July 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in and around the city of Srebrenica were massacred by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladić.
By reporting the characters’ personal experience of this tragedy, the film makes the audience reflect upon many important questions about humanity, memory and forgiveness (…)