Film Festival on Splintering of Yugoslavia in NY

[anna balint]

BAMcinimatek Presents
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia,
A Selection of Provocative Works about the
Wars of Secession in Yugoslavia

Filmmakers Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia) and Goran Radovanovic (Serbia) at BAM
for
Q&As, Saturday, April 13

Panel Discussion with Jasmila Zbanic, Goran Radovanovic, Howard
Feinstein,
co-curator, and Tomas Keenan, director of the Human Rights Project at
Bard
College on Sunday, April 14

Brooklyn, February 26, 2002-From April 12-14, BAMcinimatek, the
repertory
film program at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue), presents No
Man's
Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia, a selection of provocative films
and
videos depicting the recent wars in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, as well
as
dissidence in Serbia. The Friday-through-Sunday series includes five
different programs that feature short-format works responding to or
documenting the social upheaval, systematic genocide, and war crimes
committed in these regions. Among these films are early works by Danis
Tanovic whose feature No Man's Land received a Golden Globe and was
recently
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. No Man's
Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia is co-curated with Howard Feinstein,
a
New York based film critic who is also a programmer for the Sarajevo
Film
Festival.

According to Feinstein, "When republics began seceding from autocrat
Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, 'ethnic cleansing' and other horrors
perpetrated in the name of his 'Greater Serbia' ensued. The atrocities
in
Bosnia and Croatia, recorded by war correspondents and instantly beamed
around the world, were also captured by film and video makers."

"A number of Bosnians with an artistic bent, like No Man's Land director

Danis Tanovic, fought the war with cameras. Some talented dissidents in
Serbia managed to make subversive films and videos. Croatian artists
living
under dictator Franjo Tudjman, as well as ethnic Albanians caught in the

quickfire mass expulsion from Kosovo, had to wait until their conflicts
were
somewhat resolved before they could create interpretations of those
events.
Directors from abroad, outraged
by the world's blind eye, sought to expose the horrendous effects of war
in
Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo."
Feinstein concludes, "The exhibition No Man's Land: The Splintering of
Yugoslavia features some of the strongest of these works. Most don't
offer
solutions to the complex problems of the Balkans. Some choose to comment
on
the absurdity of the Yugoslav wars. A few do suggest possible ways out
of
the quagmire. No matter what the approach, the spectator is moved, even
provoked, by what is projected."

Two artists featured in the series will be present for special Q&A
sessions
and a panel discussion. Goran Radovanovic, of Belgrade, whose films and
videos have been exhibited worldwide, will discuss his alternative work
on
Saturday, April 13 as will Jasmila Zbanic, a filmmaker and cultural
activist
from Bosnia. Both directors will be on hand for a panel discussion with
film
writer and Howard Feinstein, co-curator and Tomas Keenan, director of
the
Human Rights Project at Bard College, on Sunday, April 14. BAMcinimatek
is
made possible through the leadership support of The Joseph S. and Diane
H.
Steinberg Charitable Trust.  No Man's Land: The Splintering of
Yugoslavia is
supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding.

General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for

students (with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays), seniors,
BAM
Cinema Club members, and children under 12. Tickets are available at the
BAM
Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by "name of
movie"
option), or online at www.bam.org. A dinner and movie package on Friday
and
Saturday nights at BAMcafi is available for only $30 (at the box office
only). For more information, call the BAMcinimatek hotline at
718.636.4100
or visit www.bam.org.

No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia
All programs presented in English or with English subtitles

Program 1 (84min)
Friday, April 12 at 6:50, 9:10pm

Portraits of Artists in Sarajevo (1994), Bosnia, 19 min
Directed by Danis Tanovic
Danis Tanovic captures the lives of Sarajevan artists during the siege.
In a
city surrounded by Serbian troops-cut off from electricity and water,
and
without adequate weapons to protect themselves-the artists still find
ways
to creatively respond to the daily horrors around them. Tanovic, who
shot
more than 300 hours of footage on the front lines during the war, just
received a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign
Language his first feature film, No Man's Land (2001).

Dawn (1996), Bosnia, 13 min
Directed by Danis Tanovic
This documentary records the bittersweet reunion of a man and his wife
and
children after three years apart. Having lost his eyesight and both arms
in
the war, he is aware of his family's mixed feelings of joy and shock.

Awakening (Ga Ira) (1998), France, 52 min
Directed by Danis Tanovic
The director journeys through postwar-Bosnia with a European aid worker,

interviewing people along the way and recording their stories of the
war.







Program 2 (92min)
Saturday, April 13 at 2, 7pm*
*Q&A with director Goran Radovanovic follows screening

A Man Called Boat (1992), Bosnia, 9 min
Directed by Pjer Zalica
Sarajevo-born Pjer Zalica documents a day in the life of a Bosnian
sniper.
Zalica pieces together fragments from the man's routine as he prepares
for
another day of battle, never once showing the sniper's face.

Serbian Epics (1993), UK, 40 min
Directed by Paul Pawlikowski
The filmmaker Paul Pawlikowski creates an intimate and shocking portrait
of
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader currently indicted for war
crimes.
Karadzic's views and daily life are captured in great detail.

Second Circle (1998), Serbia, 27 min
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Goran Radovanovic's Second Circle follows a struggling family of Gypsies
in
Serbia as they face discrimination at every turn.

Hop, Skip & Jump (1999), Bosnia, 16 min
Directed by Srdan Vuletic
In this award-winning dramatization of the war, Srdan Vuletic depicts
the
uneasy relations between Bosnian Muslims and Serbs before, during, and
after
the siege of Sarajevo, as the powerful and the oppressed change places.

Program 3 (93min)
Saturday, April 13 at 4*, 9:30pm
* Q&A with director Jasmila Zbanic follows this screening

Red Rubber Boots (2000), Bosnia, 18 min
Directed by Jasmila Zbanic
Zbanic documents the horrors of Milosevic's ethnic cleansing directive
in
Red Rubber Boots. The camera follows Bosnian women while they search
through
mass graves to identify their family members. One mother seeks a pair of
red
rubber boots, hoping they will lead to the remains of her missing child.

The Abyss (2000), Bosnia, 15 min
Directed by Adis Bakrac
Bosnian filmmaker Adis Bakrac descends with workers into a cave called
The
Abyss-a mass grave for 84 murdered Bosnians.

Crime and Punishment (1998), Norway, 60 min
Directed by Maria Fugelvaag Warsinski
Warsinski retells the story of the 1995 massacre of Bosnians in
Srebrenica,
the single worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, during which

Serbian soldiers invaded the UN-designated "safe area" and killed more
than
7,500 men. Warsinski explores the event through interviews with
survivors
who are searching for their loved ones' remains.




Program 4 (104min)
Sunday, April 14 at 2, 8:30pm

The Valley (1999), UK, 70 min
Directed by Dan Reed
Dan Reed's The Valley, a documentary about the bloody conflict in
Kosovo's
Drenica Valley, was shot just as the war was beginning in this region.
Against the backdrop of burning villages, armed men, and burying of the
dead, individuals on both sides discuss their rights to the land.

Documentary Mosaique (1999-2000), Kosovo, 28 min
Directed by Eugen Saracini
Eugen Saracini weaves together three stories of Albanian suffering in
the
aftermath of the Kosovo war. One family maintains its optimism in the
face
of losing five sons; two men from different generations, the sole
survivors
of a massacre in their town, reflect on the past and future; and a
family of
seven decide to remain where they are despite the destruction of their
home.

Program 5 (103min)
Sunday, April 14 at 4:15pm*
*Panel discussion with Jasmila Zbanic, Goran Radovanovic, Howard
Feinstein,
and Tomas Keenan follows this screening

Operation "Storm" (2001), Croatia, 52 min
Directed by Bozidar Knezevic
Operation "Storm" in 1995 resulted in the liberation of all occupied
Croatia, and was deemed a success. But after several years, the
unsettling
truth about what really happened began to see the light.

Model House (2000), Serbia, 21 min
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Using a small model house as a metaphor, Goran Radovanovic gently
satirizes
the intolerable living conditions of Serbian refugees from Croatia
living in
Serbia.

The Last Wish (1999), Serbia, 1 min
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Radovanovic's The Last Wish is a one-minute version of a 30-second
public
service announcement from 1999 about the repression of the press-one of
many
he made for Serbian TV from 1998-99.

Ethnically Clean (1998), Serbia, 30 min
Directed by Janko Baljak
Created in association with Radio B92, a Belgrade news and music outlet
for
Serbian resistance to Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Ethnically Clean
examines
Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" tactics by documenting the civilian court

case of a Serb who has murdered several Croats.

Credits

The BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a major gift in honor
of
Jonathan F.P. and Diana Calthorpe Rose.  BAM Rose Cinemas would also
like to
acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation,
Richard
B. Fisher and Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Brooklyn Borough President Marty
Markowitz, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, New York
City
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, HSBC

Bank USA, Bloomberg Radio AM1130, and Bowne of New York.  Additional
support
is provided by The Liman Foundation, and  Coca-Cola Enterprise of New
York.

BAMcinimatek would like to offer special thanks to Howard Feinstein and
to
the filmmakers: Dan Reed, Danis Tanovic, Goran Radovanovic, Paul
Pawlikowski, Srdan Vuletic, Adis Bakrac, Jasmila Zbanic, Maria Fugelvaag

Warsinski, Pier Zalica, Janko Baljak, Eugen Saracini and producer Nenad
Puhovski.

General information

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafi, and
Shakespeare &
Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette Avenue
(Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM

Harvey Theater is located at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and
Rockwell) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only
movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and
repertory programming. J.A.M Catering Services provides food and
beverages
at BAMcafi, which features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music
on
Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sounds of Praise (live gospel
music
with a soul-food buffet) on selected Sunday afternoons. A package
including
dinner in BAMcafi and a movie ticket to BAM Rose Cinemas is available
for
only $30 (at the box office only). BAMcafi is open Friday-Saturday from
5-10:30pm and Sundays from 2-8pm. Additionally, dinner is served from
5-7:30pm on all Monday-Wednesday mainstage performance nights.

Subway:  1, 2, 4, 5, Q Local, and Q Express to Atlantic Avenue
W, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue
Train:  Long Island Railroad to Flatbush Avenue
Car:  Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM.

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