PRAVO LJUDSKI - ECHOES OF TRAGOVI
Guillermo Carreras-Candi
2009/ 92' / Spain
Director: Guillermo Carreras-Candi
Avant – Premiere
ABOUT THE FILM:
How do young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina live? Who are they listening to? Where are they going? What are they hoping for? Are their voices heard at all?
Intended as an homage to the post-war generation of young people, the documentary film Traces by the Spanish author Guillermo Carreras - Candi is offering an encounter with a complex, evocative network of reflections of Sarajevo, Mostar and Zenica – reflections that cover the urban cores in which we see those who, like ghosts, hide the traces of war deep inside themselves. This stylistically pure, visually impressive and cinematographically mature documentary reveals the cracks of post-war reality in fragments that actualise the irreversible images of the past, but it also reveals the (lack of) ability of young people to cope with the transitional logic of urban life. The author's focus on problems of adapting the existence to a burdensome social reality dominated by corruption, hopelessness and shadows of the war, results in an extremely empathic and layered structure whose relations depict the efforts of the survivors to shape their view of the world in accordance with the post-war circumstances. The film Traces is a valuable documentary research on silence which, with the use of images, speaks about the identity of a generation of those who are not asked about the future.
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