3. WARM FESTIVAL (26.6.-2.7.2016.) Sarajevo
26.6.
18:00 Welcome Desk & Accreditations
19:00 WARM Festival Opening Drink
21:00 WARM FESTIVAL OPENING EVENT
THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST, a film by Johanna Schwartz
USA, 2016, 99mn
Islamic extremists have banned music in Mali, but its world famous musicians won’t give up without a fight. ‘They Will Have To Kill Us First’ tells the story of Mali’s musicians, as they fight for their right to sing.
(Partner: Frontline Club London)
27.6.
11:00 THINKING OF YOU, a film by Anna Di Lellio
The story of art and women activism to change the culture of isolation, resignation and shame that surrounds sexual violence in war.
BREAKING THE STIGMA & SILENCE AROUND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT - conference
moderated by Velma Saric
Learn from a range of inspirational local and international women who foster positive change and use art and movie culture in raising awareness around the issue of wartime sexual violence.
15:00 SHOOT! FILMING THE WAR, a film by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
France, 2015, 53mn
War is a major genre. This documentary portrays French filmmakers, historians and researchers who have completed or worked on war movies, from Jean-Luc Godard to Bertrand Tavernier and Alice Winocour.
21:00 THE DISAPPEARED - THE INVISIBLE WAR OF SYRIA, a film by Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale & Étienne Huver
France, 2015, 52 mn
A documentary investigating an invisible weapon that has been decimating the Syrian people since 2011: the forcible disappearance of more than 200,000 people.
28.6.
11:00 CIVILIANS AT WAR - conference with Stéphane Grimaldi (Director of Caen-Normandy Memorial), Vincent Giraudier (Director of the Invalides Army Museum), Youssef Haidar (Architect of Beit Beirut museum), Astrid Leray (Founder of Trezego), Roger Mayou (Director of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum), Iratxe Momoitio (Director of Guernika Peace Museum), Benoît Remiche (President of Tempora)
moderated by Stéphane Grimaldi
Exploring the representations of civilians in wartime at history museums, highlighting the need to focus on the social and historical impact of these issues.
(Partner: Caen-Normandy Memorial)
15:00 ALISA IN WARLAND, a film by Alisa Kovalenko & Liubov Durakova
Poland, 2015, 74mn
Alisa Kovalenko is a film student in Kiev when the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution kicks off. She grabs her camera and her boyfriend Stephane, a French journalist and lecturer, and heads into the streets. A living picture of her tragic experiences, feelings, pains.
18:00 ORDINARY HEROES / RESCUERS - outdoor exhibition
Photographs by Paul Lowe, Mirko Pincelli, Leora Kahn, Nicolas Axelrod, Sonia Folkmann, and Riccardo Gangale (at Skenderija Steel Bridge)
The photography exhibition showcases the testimonies of rescuers from Bosnia Herzegovina, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Holocaust genocides. The Ordinary Heroes program was created to inspire hope and activism among youth and to promote moral courage, interethnic cooperation, and sustainable peace in the Western Balkans.
(Partners: PCRC, PROOF)
21:00 IRAQI ODYSSEY, a film by Samir
Switzerland, 2014, 90mn
Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary pays a moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war, and foreign occupation of Iraq.
29.6.
11:00 WAR ARCHIVES - conference with Cécile Hennion (Le Monde journalist & WARM Syria Archive Project researcher), Suada Kapic (FAMA Collection), Adnan Pavlovic (WARM Ex-Yugoslavia Archive Project researcher), Zsuzanna Zadori (Audio-Visual Archivist)
moderated by Pierre Hazan (Advisor in humanitarian action and international justice)
(Partner: Caen-Normandy Memorial)
15:00 A SINGLE FRAME, a film by Brandon Dickerson
USA, 2015, 74mn
Weaving together the stories of the war, the now-deceased photojournalist, Alexandra Boulat, and the search for the boy, ‘A Single Frame’ is a testament to the power of photography and to the belief that every life matters.
18:00 AFGHANISTAN: AFTER ENDURING FREEDOM - exhibition by Andrew Quilty (Agence VU’) (at Java Gallery)
Australian photographer Andrew Quilty is based and has been photographing in Afghanistan since 2013, covering stories after breaking news events have moved on.
(Partner: Visa Pour L’Image Perpignan)
21:00 MY SON THE JIHADI, a film by Peter Beard
UK, 2015, 48mn
Portrait of a devastated mother. A masterful documentary about British citizens being recruited into terrorist organizations abroad. Sally Evans’s son, Thomas, left the UK for Somalia when he was 21 to join the al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab.
30.6.
09:00 PHOTOGRAPHY WEBINAR - an interactive online conference
Exhibited photographers discuss their works. Moderated by Paul Lowe and Maral Deghati.
11:00 THE SHOCK OF THE IMAGE: DOES IT INFORM? - conference with Enrico Dagnino (Photographer), Bernandino Hernandez Hernandez (Photographer), Jérôme Huffer (Head of photo department at Paris Match magazine), Paul Lowe (Photographer & Course Director of the Masters Programme in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at London College of Communication), Enric Marti (Associated Press Chief photographer for Latin America & Caribbeans)
moderated by Maral Deghati (Photo editor & Curator)
Discussing how violent events are portrayed in the media.
15:00 FRAME BY FRAME, a film by Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli
Canada, 2015, 85mn
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born. Now, as foreign troops and media withdraw, Afghanistan is left to stand on its own, and so are its journalists.
18:00 UNTITLED, an exhibition by Enrico Dagnino (at Duplex 100m2)
Curated with Gaia Tripoli
Enrico Dagnino’s reportages and archives are distributed and exhibited around the world. His debut as a photojournalist occurred during the end of the 1980s, around the time of the fall of the Berlin wall and the Velvet Revolution in Prague. Dagnino’s singular eye captivates and leads the viewer into history with poetic and brutally honest testimonies displayed as photographs, video and self-made books.
21:00 WALLS, a film by Pablo Iraburu & Migueltxo Molina
Spain / Austria, 2015, 80mn
Never in the history of humanity have we built so many walls. This film narrates real stories of people who live on both sides of very different walls. The one that divides South Africa and Zimbabwe, the separation wall between the United States and Mexico, the fence that in Melilla is used as a border between Spain and Morocco.
1.7.
09:00 FILM WEBINAR - an interactive online conference
Showcased film directors discuss their works. Moderated by Paul Lowe and Maral Deghati.
11:00 CIVILIANS CAUGHT BETWEEN JIHADISM AND STATE REPRESSION: BREAKING THE MYTHS - conference with Cécile Hennion (Le Monde journalist), Marcel Mettelsiefen (Filmmaker), Donatella Rovera (Senior crisis response advisor to Amnesty International), Laurent Van der Stockt (Photographer)
moderated by Maral Deghati (WARM)
(Partner: Amnesty International)
15:00 KOUDELKA: SHOOTING HOLY LAND, a film by Gilad Baram
Czech Republic/Germany, 2015, 72mn
A unique insight into the creative genius of Czech photographer Josef Koudelka. Director Baram follows Koudelka on his journey through Israel and Palestine as he searches for the elusive moment in which a photograph emerges.
18:00 NOTA ROJA - exhibition by BERNANDINO HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ
BETWEEN HEADLINES - MEXICO GROUP show exhibition
NOTA ROJA, an exhibition by BERNANDINO HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ
Curated by Laurent Van der Stockt
Acapulco, in the province of Guerrero in Mexico, was by far the favorite coastal city of the American jet set of the 1950s and 60s, it was still a holiday destination popular a few years ago. Proportion to the number of inhabitants, it is today the most dangerous city in the country.
(Partner: Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents)
BETWEEN HEADLINES, a Mexico group show exhibition
Works by Dominic Bracco, Yael Martinez, Jeremy Relph and Monica Alcazar-Duarte
This exhibition brings together the work of four photographers who through their work challenge the way in which we form a sense of place. They all reflect on how modern society process information and encourage their audience to consider the subject of conflict and its effects from a different view and stance.
(Partner: University of the Arts London)
21:00 SYRIAN LOVE STORY, a film by Sean McAllister
UK, 2015, 80mn
Comrades and lovers Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. Filmed over 5 years, the film charts their incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
2.7.
11:00 BAGHDAD, CHRONICLE OF AN IMMURED CITY, a film by Lucas Menget & Laurent Van der Stockt
France, 2016, 54mn
Through the course of encounters with inhabitants, with religious chiefs, politicians and militants, the filmmakers, who have been working in Baghdad for years, evoke this ancient capital today at the heart of a devastating and historic civil war.
20:00 WARM FESTIVAL CLOSING EVENT
GUANTANAMO, a book reading & discussion with Frank Smith
In ‘Guantanamo’, Frank Smith appropriates the language of interrogation minutes from Guantanamo Bay, shaping the questions and answers into a literary world that is as faceless and compelling as the interrogations themselves. Smith’s work is beautiful and unsettling, transcending and confounding the categories of law and poetry, of innocence and guilt, of translation and interpretation.
21:00 WATANI - MY HOMELAND, a film by Marcel Mettelsiefen
UK/Germany, 2016, 82mn
The epic story of one family's escape from war torn Aleppo, and their attempt to make a new life in Germany.
22:00 WARM Festival Closing Party