Dear Orchid
Dear Orchid is a poetic and diaristic documentary, using the perspective of a child to ruminate on fleeing the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 17, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026, Verdict Shorts |
Dear Orchid is a poetic and diaristic documentary, using the perspective of a child to ruminate on fleeing the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Aug 16, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo 2024 |
One last memory of a Yugoslavia that no longer exists becomes a site of obsessive return in Iva Radivojevic’s elegantly narrated reconstruction.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Apr 14, 2024 | Festivals, Visions du Réel |
The Balkan landscape is a witness to cycles of time and displacement in Nicole Vögele’s atmospheric, compelling and very human doc, winner of the top prize at Visions du Réel.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Aug 21, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023 |
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s surrealistic vision of a Sarajevo dating event turned lab for reconciliation is refreshing and offbeat in grappling with the Siege’s legacy.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023 |
Kumjana Novakova masterfully contextualises archival testimony in her sensitive, formally inventive reckoning with violence against women as a weapon of the Bosnian War.
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