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Title: FOG OF SREBRENICA, the

Reference number: 13891

Date: 2015

Director: d. Samir Mahanović

Sponsor: Creative Scotland

Production company: Paradiso Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 60 mins

Description: What happens to you when you live in a society riven by civil war, when you’re forced to entertain the inconceivable thought that your neighbours are out to kill you? Hatidza, one of the mothers of Srebrenica, sums up this sense of disillusionment: “Because of what happened in World War II, we thought people must have been uncivilized back then. We thought civilization had progressed and that we understood each other now.” And the disillusionment was followed by fear. Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass murder of 8,372 Bosnian men. Women and children were carried off in buses, and along the way they saw “their” men, half-naked on a soccer field. One of the girls was the then-13-year-old Zinahida. She thought they were being driven to her deaths while the men played soccer. The Fog of Srebrenica presents interviews that are structured in chapters, each of which handles a new phase of this atrocity: the chaos and desperation, the starvation, the severely weakened Bosnian militias marching through the woods – a hellish ordeal that few survived. The sometimes-shocking images of the past drag up the horrors of a nightmare that just won’t end. [Synopsis taken from director's Vimeo account, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thefogofsrebrenica/129314925, last accessed 21/10/2021]

Catalogued from secondary sources including Creative Scotland and Paradiso productions website.

Won IDFA Special Jury Award for Mid-Length Documentary at Amsterdam’s International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA).

Filmed interview with Mahanovic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwgHhd4-D4 [last accessed 21/10/2021]

Credits: [p. Samir Mahanovic
music. Nigel Osborne MBE]