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Silence of Reason
(Šutnja razuma)
North Macedonia, Bosnia, 2023 (63 min.)
A meticulously constructed and emotionally undoing video essay that exposes the rape camps set up by Serb forces in the town of Foca early in the Bosnian War. This piece of performative research, employs actual court transcripts that were used to condemn sexual enslavement as a crime against humanity in the first Hague tribunal of its kind. Weaving terror out of truth, the film uses visually altered archival footage of once-sublime locations, their beauty now mangled by the traumas that occurred there. As the film unfolds, so do the stories of hundreds of female victims, including multiple generations of women and girls from the same families.
“I would like to imagine that each film is one more chance for us to work against the violence and absurdity of our times, the system, the unjust world we are part of.”
― Kumjana Novakova
DIRECTED BY
Kumjana Novakova
CONTACT
Medea
In Bosnian and English with English subtitles
Film 6
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