RETROSPECTIVE: Retro Sarajevo PT.3

Retour à Sarajevo

Philippe Grandrieux. France, 1996. 73′

Grandrieux accompanies Sada, a Bosnian Muslim, on her journey back to Sarajevo after the signing of the Dayton Accords in a road movie that travels through a devastated country.

French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux follows a Bosnian woman’s return to Sarajevo after years of enforced absence from the war. In the background, in the faces and words of the people she meets, the material and moral wreckage of a conflict that has torn the country apart, leaving rifts still open. Retour à Sarajevo is Grandrieux’s first feature film, a prelude to works such as Sombre (1998) and La Vie nouvelle (2002), with which the director will consolidate a radical poetics.
In collaboration with Bottega Errante

Followed by

Images from the Corner

Jasmila Žbanić. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023. 32′

The director of Quo Vadis, Aida? reflects on the visible and invisible scars that mark Sarajevo, nearly a decade after the end of the war.

In 1992 while an explosion causes the amputation of a young woman’s arm, a French photographer, instead of helping her, takes a photo that will make him famous. This event will forever change the life of the director of Quo Vadis Aida? and The Secret of Esma, who in her career has put the role of women in history at the center and who in this documentary will return to reflect on that event, turning the camera back to herself and on her first encounter with death and destruction.

With the participation of

Alessandro Del Re –

Roberta Biagiarelli – multidisciplinary artist, cultural maker and activist. She produces, researches and performs shows on historical and social issues. Her theater of reality multiplies expressively by becoming documentaries, books, podcasts. Passionate about Balkan history of the 20th century, with special focus on the Srebrenica genocide. She is co-author of the volume Shooting in Sarajevo (2020).