Bosnians in the cinema
May 21st, 2007 by Viktor Dimitrov
Jasmila Zbanic, a young Bosnian film director, ‘dragged’ me to the cinema on Saturday evening in Budapest to see her new movie Grbavica. To be more accurate, I do have a soft spot for Balkan movies so I couldn’t miss this opportunity. Moreover, it is always a great feeling to be the only person in the cinema who can understand both the Bosnian speech and the Hungarian subtitles.
The movie is about the difficulties of a Bosnian woman and her daugher a decade after the end of the war that tore Yugoslavia apart. I would recommend it to all of you who think that the Dayton Accord closed the whole issue: the scars are still there and it will take generations before the psychical wounds are healed.
People forget so easily - occupied with their work, family, holidays, a football team that never wins, it is easy to ignore the hardship of others whom they don’t even know. Once it is off the media, it is as if it has never happened. It is good to have young, creative minds like Jasmila, who are not letting Bosnia fade to irrelevance. Moreover, the movie won the golden bear at Berlinale. Everybody heading to the nearest cinema, eh?
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