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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

An Australian tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities.

  • Director: Jasmila Zbanic
  • Writers: Zoran Solomun, Kym Vercoe, Jasmila Zbanic
  • Type: Features
  • Year: 2015
  • Country: Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Language: English/Bosnian
  • Length: 82 mins

Instead of visiting Fiji like everybody else, Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the ‘romantic’ Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.

Date: Friday, February 6, 6:00PM 
Location: Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul

SPONSORED BY:
Whitewater Films

 

 

 

Filmmaker Bio:
Born in Sarajevo in 1974, Jasmila is a graduate of her native city’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, Theatre and Film Directing Department. Before filmmaking, she also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee Delong workshop. Jasmila’s films and video works have been displayed at dozens of art exhibitions worldwide such as Manifesta 3, the Istanbul Biennial, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, New Museum in New York.

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