Political reconciliation remains a challenge in Bosnia and much of former Yugoslavia more than a decade after the wars that ravaged the region in the 1990s. "So I didn't feel that maybe this.can do something for me personally until I came to 2008 and I felt after the sectarian violence that happened in 20, I felt that revenge cannot sort out the problem of Iraq." Because, personally, I think I was full of revenge, full of anger about what happened in Iraq," Daradji says. "I did not have this character in the film until 2008. He defends the character, saying people like him must be both confronted and forgiven if Iraq is to move forward. The film's treatment of the character is sympathetic, which Daradji said did not go over well with the Iraqi public when the film was shown there. One of the film's characters, a man called Musa, asks for forgiveness for committing war crimes while serving as a soldier in the old regime. The film also explores the difficulty of political reconciliation in a country that has experienced decades of dictatorship and war. Oscar-winning Bosnian film director Danis Tanovic's new film "Cirkus Columbia," a tragicomedy set in Sarajevo just before the siege of the city began in 1992, had its world premiere at the festival opening on July 23.īut this being Sarajevo, somber themes of war, remembrance, and reconciliation are omnipresent and have a specific resonance.ĭaradji says he made "Son Of Babylon," which stars nonprofessional actors - many of whom experienced war atrocities in their real lives - as an expression of the challenges facing Iraq as well as his personal hopes for stability in the country. This year Morgan Freeman is headlining the event and will be present for the screening of "Invictus," a film about South Africa's Nelson Mandela, at the festival finale on July 31. Her search leads her on a gruesome journey through the mass graves of the Saddam Hussein regime.Įvery year tens of thousands of people stream into Sarajevo to watch films, attend parties, and line up outside the red carpet in the hopes of glimpsing a famous movie star or director. The film explores the plight of a Kurdish woman as she searches for her missing son just after the U.S. SARAJEVO - References to mass graves tend to strike a raw nerve in Bosnia, where the remains of 17,000 victims of the country's 1992-95 war have been unearthed.īut this week at Sarajevo's 16th annual film festival, another country's mass graves were being discussed after viewing Iraqi director Mohamed al-Daradji's film "Son of Babylon."
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