Written by a former teacher in Sarajevo She was an old woman, seventy-five years old, she told me, holding up seven fingers and then five. The day I moved into the flat in the building her family owned, she came up the steps the first day with some homemade sirnica, cheese pie. Every week or [...]
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Yugoslavia Documentary Compilation Available From A Million Movies a Minute
PORTLAND, Oregon: A Million Movies a Minute, an independent distributor specializing in short documentaries, has announced the release of AFTER THE WAR: LIFE POST-YUGOSLAVIA. This 150-minute compilation includes films by 5 film-makers from the former Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Peru and the United States. These 9 films represent a broad spectrum of contemporary documentary film-making.The recent [...]
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By ISA BELLEBosnia and Herzegovina must certainly be the world-champion in fitting several schools under one roof. A common phenomenon in this country is the so-called ‘two schools under one roof’ which means that there are two different ethnic groups enrolling in different school curriculum in the same building. One group usually starts early in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One Day On Earth Media Project Wants Bosnian Citizens (10/10/2010)
From my mailbox—- I am contacting Beyond Sarajevo on behalf of a global media event that I am helping to produce. One Day On Earth is an online community of filmmakers, students, and inspired individuals all teaming up to film in every country in the world during the 24-hour period on 10/10/2010, to create a [...]
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