Due to the extraordinary interest in the documentary Sarajevo Safari by Miran Zupanič, additional screenings were announced in Cankarjev dom. The film began its journey through cinemas at the end of October and already had a series of screenings on CD.
The film will also be shown on Saturday, December 3, Sunday, December 4, at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, December 6, at 7 p.m.
The documentary, which focuses on the time of the siege of Sarajevo in the years 1992 to 1996, was watched by more than 300,000 viewers during its premiere on October 31 this year on Al Jazira Balkan, the CD announced. Viewers will also be able to watch the film in the Art cinema network of Slovenia in the month of December.
It had its world premiere at the 5th AJB DOC festival in SarajevoThe film had its world premiere at the 5th AJB DOC festival in Sarajevo, and was awarded the dokudoc chosen award at the Dokudoc documentary film festival in Maribor.
“There was a structure that allowed certain people to shoot at the inhabitants of the besieged city from Serbian positions above Sarajevo for a fee. We have reached a certain point of knowledge, from here on we can guess, but we cannot categorically state anything.”
“How the structure was established, shaped, we do not know and do not find out in the film. In this sense, the film does not want to be more than it is,” he described Miran Zupanic a phenomenon he explored in his new documentary produced by Arsmedia.
In the film, a Slovenian witness, whose name and face remain hidden, talks about his contact with the safari, and Edin Subasican intelligence officer of the army of BiH, and the point of view of the snipers’ victims is illuminated Stana and Samir Ćišić and Faruk Sabanovic. The filmmakers were Božo Zadravec, Maksimiljan Sušnik and Zupanič, who was next to him Jake Kovačiča also an assembler. He was a composer Tilen Slakansound designer Boštjan Kačičnik. The film was made in the production house Arsmedia z Danica Ikovic, Boštjan Ikovic and Franci Zajce.
“The film gives the viewer an inkling of the absolute evil that hides under the masks of humanity, and at the same time brings an insight into the fate of those whose lives were changed forever by sniper bullets. Along with their suffering, it brings the viewer closer to their wisdom and willpower to live.” Zupanič said, among other things.
“I felt the need to go public with this Sarajevo story first in Sarajevo, because this is our moral commitment,” says director and screenwriter Zupanič, but adds that there the film was accompanied by a media-political tsunami, especially from Republika Srpska, where the film was recognized as an attack on Serbia. Željka Cvijanovićat the time of the premiere the president of Republika Srpska, and recently elected member of the country’s presidency, accused the director of falsifying the truth, while the mayor of Sarajevo Benjamina Karić based on the film, she has already filed a complaint against unknown perpetrators.
She recently completed her criminal complaint. He expects that the competent authorities will carry out legally prescribed measures and investigative actions on the basis of new evidence.
Among the new evidence, the mayor of Sarajevo submitted, among other things, a recording of the TV show Al Jazeera Balkan, in which it is stated that only law enforcement authorities have access to some documents of the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also supplemented the criminal complaint with the testimony of John Jordan at the trial against Dragomir Milošević and by examining the witness Luce Leona.
Source: Rtvslo