At this year's Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF), a special program called "1995-2015 - facing the past" was held, during which the audience will have the opportunity to see the films "Massacre in the Court" directed by Georg Larsen, "Voices of Srebrenica" by Nedim Lončarević and "The Diplomat," a film about the creator of the Dayton Accords, Richard Holbrooke, written by his son David.
Director of SFF Mirsad Purivatra said that these films can be an incentive to learn some important lessons from the past.
"All these documentaries deal with the events of 1995. It is a significant year for the lives of all of us and a new generation, during which Operation Storm, the genocide in Srebrenica and the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement took place," Purivatra described the reasons that prompted the organizers to include such an "engaged" program in the festival.
War traumas, but this time in Sri Lanka, are also the backbone of the French film "Dheepan" by Jacques Odiard, winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Festival, which was shown in Sarajevo last night as part of the Open Air 21 program.
The film offers the story of a former fighter of the "Tamil Tigers" organization Deepan, who, together with his wife and little girl, whom he does not actually know, "acting" as a family, tries to escape from the war in his country and find refuge in France.
The main actors of this production, Jesutasan Antonitasan and Kalieasvari Srinivasan, in a conversation with the audience in Sarajevo, spoke about their experiences.
Antonitasan, who plays Dipan, said that he himself experienced a similar fate, and that he is dealing with the past by writing books.
The war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, but the Asian country is still struggling with its consequences.
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