A Cry from the Grave
A reconstruction of the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.
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Srebrenica is Dutch History
July 11th, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. IDFA, at the invitation of and together with the Bosnian Girl collective, has put together a film program that explores this tragic history from different social and cultural perspectives. It is a history that cannot be considered remote or disconnected; Srebrenica is a critical part of the Netherlands' contemporary history too.
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Crazy
Dutch U.N. soldiers speak about their experiences in various conflict areas around the world. The vehicle for their recollections is the music they played at the time, which has become forever tied to their memories of war.
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The Fog of Srebrenica
Survivors of the siege of Srebrenica talk about the events leading up to the mass murder of 8,372 Bosnian men.
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Good Husband, Dear Son
The way Bosnian women commemorate their husbands, sons, brothers and fathers murdered during the war, reveals their strong bond with the deceased.
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Serbian Epics
‘Women don’t wage wars’, Radovan Karadzic’s mother says when her son comes to visit her and tells her about the military situation in Bosnia. A little later, SERBIAN EPICS shows a meeting of the Bosnian-Serbian war cabinet, in which the now notorious Ratko Mladic and Biljana Plavcic are seated. Initially, the tone of this portrait of Karadzic - psychiatrist, poet, businessman and leader of the Bosnian Serbs - is light-hearted, but gradually a shady world of power and delusion emerges. Without comment, with an almost anthropological eye, director Pawel Pawlikowski observes the besiegers of Sarajevo. The Serbian cultural heritage - centuries-old songs and poems - is used to justify the new ethnic struggle, and Karadzic loves to recite poetry.
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The Trial of Ratko Mladić
The trial of General Ratko Mladić, through the eyes of prosecutors, defense attorneys, genocide survivors and Mladić's supporters.
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