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Ivo Čolak, Marko Mikulić / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 99' / 2021.
Synopsis

Zidine is the story of three aging war prisoners who decided to make a film about what they experienced in the camps during the Homeland War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anđelko, Karlo and Mirko, who hired a film crew to tell the story of the horrors they experienced, are in the focus of the story. The three of them are preparing the archive for the film, they talk every day, analyze the prepared material, and the camera is always present somewhere on the side. The impression is that they are creating their own film. They visit the witnesses all over B&H who went through tortures in the camps. They talked to them in everyday situations, while cutting fruit trees in the field, in their offices, during work, they came to witness's houses for a cup of coffee and a story...Today, their life is "normal", there is humour and optimism, ordinary rituals of everyday life. But beneath the everyday exterior, there remains pain and bitterness under the skin. ("Only an inmate knows what goes on in his head at night when he is alone. Sleep is both an obligation and a burden to me," Mirko Zelenika said).Unfortunately, tragic events occur during the filming of the film. We’ve lost Anđelko, Karlo and

• Screenwriter Ivo Čolak
• Cameraman Marko Mikulić
• Editing Gordan Prskalo
• Producer Marko Mikulić

Festivals and awards

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