Word: sarajevo
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...Winterbottom is a past master at lending the traditional story-telling format to real stories of the modern world at war. Welcome to Sarajevo, In This World and The Road to Guantanamo all mixed documentary footage with either fictional scenes played by professional actors or reenactments by the actual participants. A Mighty Heart is a more straightforward docudrama, following the horrific tick-tock of Mariane's ordeal. As played by Jolie, she is a demanding, nails-tough woman, while Futterman's Danny is more easy-going but no less tenacious at his job - a good reporter, and a mensch...
...traveling companion, Mak cuts a charming figure. But his portrait of the last century is almost unremittingly dark. The mayor's scythe sweeps through the book as Mak tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors...
...just one day before the siege of Sarajevo, the four-year-old Emina Kobiljar ’10 fled Yugoslavia with her family, headed for a refugee camp in southern Germany where she would live for six years before moving to the United States. This summer she will return, funded by a $10,000 donation from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to rebuild a war-devastated athletic center in her hometown, Kolibe Gornje, Bosnia. Kobiljar said she hoped the reconstruction of the athletic center would promote peace by allowing the town to host the neighboring Bosniak, Croat, and Serb communities...
...International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens of thousands of rape victims from the Bosnian war, is trying to make ends meet in the eponymous suburb of Sarajevo, with her pre-teen daughter Sara (Luna Mijovic). Zbanic’s clear storytelling makes the film accessible to a global audience; you do not need to know about shaheeds or Bosnian war camps to empathize with the middle-aged mother working night shifts at a seedy club in order...
...confrontations in the streets between rebellious students calling for a state funeral and the hard-line government eager to downplay the event-eerily prefiguring the violence of 1988. But Thant was also educated at Harvard and Cambridge, and has worked on U.N. peacekeeping operations in Phnom Penh and Sarajevo, so he approaches Burma's history both as the rare outsider who knows the country's family secrets and as the rare insider who has the perspective of an international diplomat...