Short Documentaries And Films 19
Acts of Courage: Resisting Hatred
To mark Remembering Srebrenica’s 2018 theme ‘Acts of Courage’, we celebrate the ordinary people who undertook acts of extraordinary courage and stood up for their neighbours and resisted hatred. In this short video, we witness some of those inspiring stories of bravery, friendship and love.
Breaking the Silence – The Women of Bosnia
This film features two women, Bakira Hasečić and 'Mirsada', who were both subjected to horrific ordeals at the hands of Bosnian Serb forces during their brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing, but bravely speak out to prevent anything similar from happening again.
Breaking the Silence – video
Introducing our theme for this year: "Breaking the Silence: Gender & Genocide", this powerful short film reveals the shocking truth about women's experiences.
21 Seconds
This video was made by our Community Champions in Kirklees for the 21st anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica.
YouPress video on Lessons from Srebrenica programme
In October 2015 a delegation of artists from London Collective YouPress went out to Bosnia on the Lessons from Srebrenica programme. This video documents their journey and features interview footage with our Bosnian in-country Coordinator, Resad Trbonja.
Srebrenica Memorial Day, 11th July 2016
A short video with excerpts from our powerful and moving 2016 Srebrenica Memorial Day event at Durbar Court in London.
Dr Janine Clark’s talk: “Remembering the survivors of rape and sexual violence”
Breaking the Silence: Bosnia and Beyond brought together a panel of experts on violence against women to consider how we can learn from our collective dark past. This talk was recorded to be shown at the event in Gloucester in July 2016. All the names in the talk have been changed.
Unite Against Hatred
A short video on what can happen if hatred and prejudice goes unchecked.
Beatfreeks’ performance poetry marks genocide
Creative young people from the Birmingham-based social enterprise Beatfreeks held a special Srebrenica 'Poetry Jam' during Memorial Week this year.
Manchester ‘flashmob’ flowers for Srebrenica
Manchester delegates who took part in the 'Lessons from Srebrenica' educational visits programme were inspired to stage a 'flashmob' event during Memorial Week this year.
A harrowing but important read 👇 https://t.co/AkHWlxhagg
Throughout the Bosnian genocide, there were over 625 concentration camps operating that served as ways to humiliate, exterminate, and destroy Bosnian Muslims. In many of these places, the survivors haven’t been allowed to memorialize them for the genocidal tools they were. https://t.co/vFYz06Ro13
Today also marks the establishment of the Batković concentration camp; one that was operated from ‘92-‘96 and in which over 4,000 mainly Bosnian Muslims, as well as Croats, were detained in, tortured, and raped at the orders of the Serb army. Harrowing account of the conditions:
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