End of Impunity​

​(End of Impunity) - Original Language Title
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director, Producer(s), Production: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Duration: 7'44''
Year of Production: 2004
​Short Description: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a United Nations court of law that dealt with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s. During its mandate, which lasted from 1993 - 2017, it irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law, provided victims an opportunity to voice the horrors they witnessed and experienced, and proved that those suspected of bearing the greatest responsibility for atrocities committed during armed conflicts can be called to account.
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Srebrenica Genocide: No Room for Denial

(Srebrenica Genocide: No Room for Denial)
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director, Producer(s), Production: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
​Short Description: In July 1995, forces of the Army of the Republika Srpska, the VRS, invaded the town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In a few horrific days, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men were taken to places of detention, abused, tortured and then executed. As their bodies fell into mass graves, the machinery of denial of those crimes was set into motion.
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Sexual Violence and Triumph of Justice

(Sexual Violence and Triumph of Justice)
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director: Rob Barsony
Producer(s): Steve Coulson, Petar Finci
Production: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Duration: 40'50''
Year of Production: 2011
​Short Description: Rape and sexual violence were long perceived as the inevitable collateral damage in a conflict, until the ICTY and its sister Tribunal, the ICTR, demonstrated that wartime crimes of sexual nature were being used as tools of conflict and that those crimes could and must be punished by international law. This documentary depicts the historic role that the two Tribunals have played in the prosecution and adjudication of wartime sexual violence, including gripping testimonies from witnesses and survivors who bravely gave evidence at trials, and interviews with former and current ICTY professionals who pioneered the prosecution of these crimes.
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Dubrovnik and Crimes against Cultural Heritage

(Dubrovnik and Crimes against Cultural Heritage)
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director: Steve Coulson, Petar Finci
Producer(s): Steve Coulson, Petar Finci, Klara Dokmanović
Production: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Duration: 62'17''
Year of Production: 2016
​Short Description: During the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia, hundreds of religious and cultural sites were systematically destroyed in an attempt to eradicate the culture of targeted groups in given areas. From its very first cases,  the ICTY affirmed that destruction of cultural heritage is a crime under international customary law. The ICTY also determined that systematic crimes against cultural heritage can amount to crimes against humanity, ”for all of humanity is indeed injured by the destruction of a unique religious culture and its concomitant cultural objects”.
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Never Justified: ICTY and crime of Torture

(Never Justified: ICTY and crime of Torture​)
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director: Petar Finci
Producer(s): Steve Coulson, Petar Finci
Production: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Duration: 47'56''
Year of Production: 2017
​Short Description: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY or Tribunal) has played an historic role in the prosecution and definition of the crimes of torture and cruel treatment. This documentary provides an overview of the Tribunal’s achievements in this field of international criminal law.
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Against All Odds

(Against All Odds)​
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: Sense TV
Duration: 63'
Year of Production: 2003
​Short Description: Even though its founders admit that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was “born to die” here is the tale of its survival and success against all odds.
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Sarajevo Roses – Terror in 12 Pictures 

(Sarajevo Roses – Terror in 12 Pictures)
​Country(s) of Origin: The Netherlands
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: Sense TV
Duration: 55'
Year of Production: 2012
​Short Description: It is a documentary film about the way the 44-month siege in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s capital has been depicted and reconstructed in the various trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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Storm in The Hague

(Storm in The Hague)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: SENSE - Center for Transitional Justice 
Duration: Interactive Narrative
Year of Production: 2015
​Short Description: "Storm in The Hague" narrative covers five key points of contention between the Prosecution and the Defense at the trial of Croatian generals Gotovina, Čermak, and Markač. The Trial Chamber and the Appeals Chamber of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), relying on the same facts and the same law reached diametrically opposed conclusions.
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Srebrenica Genocide in 8 Acts

(Srebrenica Genocide in 8 Acts)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: SENSE - Center for Transitional Justice 
Duration: Interactive Narrative
Year of Production: 2016
​Short Description: The events that took place over seven days in July 1995 in Srebrenica were the subject of the most extensive criminal investigation in Europe since World War II.The details of what transpired have been thoroughly reconstructedin the course of the dozen or so trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
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Targeting History and Memory

(Targeting History and Memory)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: SENSE - Center for Transitional Justice 
Duration: Interactive Narrative
Year of Production: 2016
​Short Description: Targeting History and Memory, interactive narrative produced focuses upon the Tribunal’s investigations and trials involving crimes against cultural heritage during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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ICTY: The Kosovo Case

(ICTY: The Kosovo Case)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: SENSE - Center for Transitional Justice 
Duration: Interactive Narrative
Year of Production: 2017
​Short Description: The political crisis that had been developing in Kosovo from the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s culminated in an armed conflict between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia and the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA, from mid-1998.  Narrative consists of nine short films (10 to 15 minutes long) and a selection of evidence presented and admitted at the trials for Kosovo crimes. It is published in three languages: Albanian, Serbian and English.
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48 Hours of Ashes and Blood

(48 Hours of Ashes and Blood)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Mirko Klarin
Producer(s): Mirko Klarin
Production: SENSE - Center for Transitional Justice 
Duration: Interactive Narrative
Year of Production: 2019
​Short Description: Tragedy carried out in April 1993 in a small village of Ahmići reflects in a microcosm the much wider tensions, conflicts and hatreds which have, since 1991, plagued the former Yugoslavia and caused so much suffering and bloodshed. In a matter of a few months, persons belonging to different ethnic groups, who used to enjoy good neighbourly relations, and who previously lived side by side in a peaceful manner and who once respected one another’s different religious habits, customs and traditions, were transformed into enemies. 
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Croatian Memories​

(Osobna sjećanja)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Documenta
Producer(s): Documenta
Production: Documenta
Duration: Platform with Video Interviews
Year of Production: 2009 - 2024
​Short Description: Croatian Memories Personal Collection recorded by Documenta consists of more than 450 recordings of personal memories collected with the use of oral history method. We believe this to be a very valuable platform for public disclosure of numerous layers and meanings of different historical events. In our view, this platform could also serve for initiating a deeper and more serious investigation of destinies and sufferings, but also life battles, of people who suffered because they did not possess any political power and were not creators of political upheavals. 
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SHOK

(SHOK)
​Country(s) of Origin: Kosovo
​Writer: Jamie Donoughue
Producer(s): Eshref Durmishi, Harvey Ascott, Howard Dawson
Production: Ouat Media 
Duration: 21'
Year of Production: 2015
​Short Description: Based on true events, "Shok" is set during the escalation of the Kosovan War when the country was occupied by Serbia... Two young Kosovan boys, Petrit and Oki, are the best of friends. After Oki buys a bike, Petrit is desperate to have one of his own. Ever the businessman Petrit finds a niche dealing cigarette papers to the occupying Serbian troops. However with tensions and violence escalating in the country, many would see this as traitorous. Building a steady network of contacts, Petrit drags Oki into ever more dangerous situations until their lives are put at risk. As their relationship is tested to the limits they begin to encounter the true intentions of the Serbians and learn the meaning of friendship.
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1999 – A Documentary about the Kosovo War and Ethnic Cleansing

​Country(s) of Origin: Kosovo
​Director: Valdet Salihu
Producer(s): Valdet Salihu 
Duration: 47'
Year of Production: 2014
​Short Description: This is an hour documentary about Kosovo War, ethnic cleansing that followed, and the efforts of the Canadian government to shelter and assist 7000 of circa one million Albanian refugees expelled from their land by the Serbian military forces.
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A Kosovo Fairytale

("1999 – A Documentary about the Kosovo War and Ethnic Cleansing")
​Country(s) of Origin: Finland
​Director: Anna-Sofia Nylund
Producer: Marc Stanimirovic
Production: Arcada/Afda/Wits
Duration: 14'
Year of Production: 2009
​Short Description: A Kosovo Fairytale is a touching message for the little brother, so that he could understand the tough decision his family made – they fled to Finland, but he was left in Kosovo. The skilled animation tells the story of a happy family in the midst of war. Even if Finland is good, the family’s worry for the one left behind does not ease. The film illustrates collective pain and provides an intimate picture of one of Kosovo’s numerous human tragedies
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Documentary Films
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​Lora - Testimonies

​(Lora - Svjedočanstva) - Original Language Title
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia, Serbia​
​Director: Nenad Puhovski
Producer(s): Veran Matić, Nenad Puhovski
Production: Factum, B92
Duration: 65'
Year of Production: 2004
​Short Description: Severe torture and some seventy missing detainees is the
reality of Split's Lora Stockade in which more than 1,000 persons from
Split, Dalmatia, neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina and the rump Yugoslavia
​were detained between 1992 and 1996.
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The Boy Who Rushed

​(Dečko kojem se žurilo)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Biljana Čakić-Veselič
Producer(s): Nenad Puhovski
Production: Factum, B92
Duration: 53'
Year of Production: 2001
​Short Description: An intimate story about the author's search for her brother who went missing in action during war in Croatia in 1991. In a way, the film is a follow-up of the author's grandmother whose husband was killed in World War II. For the rest of her life the grandmother was awaiting his return. The Boy Who Rushed won numerous national and international awards, including the annual Vladimir Nazor Award for Film.
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Operation Storm

(Oluja nad Krajinom)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Božidar Knežević
Producer(s): Nenad Puhovski
Production: Factum
Duration: 52'
Year of Production: 2002
​Short Description: The film explores the international community and Croatian human rights organizations' accusations of war crimes committed after the wartime Operation Storm.
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Pavillion 22

(Paviljon 22)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Nenad Puhovski
Producer(s): Nenad Puhovski
Production: Factum
Duration: 52'
Year of Production: 2002
​Short Description: Pavilion 22'' deals with one of the most obscure episodes of Croatia's recent history – the 1991 events in the notorious pavilion in the Zagreb Fair compound.
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War for Peace

(Rat za mir)
​Country(s) of Origin: Montenegro
​Director: Koča Pavlović
Production: IPG Obala
Duration: 55'
Year of Production: 2004
​Short Description: The first Montenegrin documentary about the involvement of the Montenegrin army in the Civil War in Yugoslavia and the Siege of Dubrovnik
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The Scorpions, a Home Movie

(Škorpioni, spomenar)
​Country(s) of Origin: Serbia
​Director: Lazar Stojanović
Producer: Nataša Kandić​
Production: Humanitarian Law Center
Duration: 53'
Year of Production: 2007
​Short Description: Scorpions bring statements of former members and the materials recorded by the unit itself in course of its campaignes.This film demonstrates the functioning of a typical combat unit organized by the security service to do dirty jobs in the Balkan wars.  This is an example of the practice mushrooming in a half of the world for decades.  This film is also an attempt to cast light on the personal, intimate aspect of crime.
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Citizen A.T.

(Državljan A.T.)
​Country(s) of Origin: Slovenia
​Director: Dimitar Anakiev
Producer: Dimitar Anakiev
Production: Anakiev Production
Duration: 55'
Year of Production: 2010
​Short Description: The case of the Erased People of Slovenia is the biggest systematic policy of violence against human rights in the history of the European Union: in 1992. the Slovenian government removed 25,671 people from the official records, among them 6,000 children.
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Depth Two

(Dubina 2)
​Country(s) of Origin: Serbia
​Director: Ognjen Glavonić
Producer(s): Dragana Jovović, Sandra Orlović
Production: Humanitarian Law Center/Non-Aligned Films
Duration: 80'
Year of Production: 2016
​Short Description: In 2001 a mass grave was discovered in Batajnica, in a suburb of Belgrade. Soon there were more to come. "Depth Two" investigates the hidden story behind this horrid discovery and takes us back to 1999 and the NATO bombings in Serbia. In an attempt to uncover, shed a light on and give a voice to these stories, intentionally buried in silence, the film speaks directly to the sensations, imagination and emotions of the viewer, in a meditative and hypnotic way.
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"1999 – A Documentary about the Kosovo War and Ethnic Cleansing"

("1999 – A Documentary about the Kosovo War and Ethnic Cleansing")
​Country(s) of Origin: Kosovo
​Director: Valdet Salihu
Producer: Valdet Salihu
Production: Humanitarian Law Center/Non-Aligned Films
Duration: 47'
Year of Production: 2014
​Short Description: This is an hour documentary about Kosovo War, ethnic cleansing that followed, and the efforts of the Canadian government to shelter and assist 7000 of circa one million Albanian refugees expelled from their land by the Serbian military forces.
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Feature Films
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Tresholds

​(Pragovi)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia, Belgium, France, Slovenia
​Director: Dijana Mlađenović
Producer(s): Dijana Mlađenović
Production: Kinematograf
Duration: 12,55'
Year of Production: 2013
​Short Description: The year is 1992. War is raging in Croatia. The new government carries out forceful evictions of the ‘unfit’ occupants from their apartments. In a sudden eviction, Ivan and Vesna find themselves on the opposite sides.
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Before the Rain

(Prije kiše)
​Country(s) of Origin: United Kingdom, France, North Macedonia
​Director: Milčo Mančevski
Producer(s): Čedomir Kolar etc.
Production: Aim Productions, Noé Productions, Vardar Film
Duration: 113'
Year of Production: 1994
​Short Description: Before the Rain tells the stories of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. This gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema's most powerful laments on the futility of war.
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Grbavica

(Grbavica)
​Country(s) of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
​Director: Jasmila Žbanić
Producer(s): Barbara Albert, Damir Ibrahimović, Bruno Wagner
Duration: 90'
Year of Production: 2006
​Short Description: A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
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Crnci

(Crnci)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Goran Dević, Zvonimir Jurić
Duration: 75'
Year of Production: 2009
​Short Description: Looking for the enemy, they found it where nobody expected - in themselves.
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Circles

(Krugovi)
​Country(s) of Origin: Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
​Director: Srđan Golubović
Producer(s): Srđan Koljević etc.
Production: Vertigo etc. 
Duration: 112'
Year of Production: 2013
​Short Description: The impact of a selfless deed of benevolence and heroism right in the middle of the raging Bosnian war inextricably intertwines the lives of five people who are still affected by its consequences, over a decade later.
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No Man's Land

(Ničija zemlja)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia
​Director: Danis Tanović
Producer(s): Cédomir Kolar, Marc Baschet, Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Production: Fabrica
Duration: 98'
Year of Production: 2001
​Short Description: Movie about a Serb and a Bosnian soldier caught together in a trench in no man's land, has the mainstream feel of an old-fashioned anti-war satire. This is the film for which Bosnia and Herzegovina won the first and so far the only Oscar.
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Man don't cry

(Muškarci ne plaču)
​Country(s) of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina
​Director: Alan Drljević
Producer(s): Damir Ibrahimović etc.
Production: Deblokada Produkcija etc.
Duration: 98'
Year of Production: 2017
​Short Description: Bosnia and Herzegovina, fifteen years after the war. A group of middle-aged Yugoslav War veterans gather in a remote mountain hotel for an extended group-therapy session that unravels the complexities of their pasts.
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Hive

(Zgjoi)
​Country(s) of Origin: Kosovo
​Director: Blerta Basholli
Producer(s): Valon Bajgora
Production: LevelK
Duration: 84'
Year of Production: 2019
​Short Description: Fahrije's husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision.
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Quo Vadis, Aida?

(Quo Vadis, Aida?)
​Country(s) of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway, Croatia, Sweden, Montenegro, Italy
​Director: Jasmila Žbanić
Producer(s): Damir Ibrahimović etc.
Production: Deblokada Produkcija etc.
Duration: 101'
Year of Production: 2020
​Short Description: Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
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The Man who could not Remain Silents

(Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti)
​Country(s) of Origin: Croatia etc.
​Director: Nebojša Slijepčević
Producer(s): Katarina Prpić, Danijel Pek
Production: Antitalent
Duration: 13'
Year of Production: 2024
​Short Description: February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent
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Remake

​Country(s) of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Turkey
​Director: Dino Mustafic
Producer(s): Enes Cviko and Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Production: Forum MACT Productions
Duration: 108'
Year of Production: 2003
​Short Description: Tells the parallel coming-of-age stories of a father living in Sarajevo during World War II and his son living through the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War
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Sympathy for the Devil

(Sympathie pour le diable)
​Country(s) of Origin: Canada, France, Belgium
​Director: Guillaume de Fontenay
Producer(s): Pascal Bascaron, Nicole Robert, Jean-Yves Robin, Marc Stanimirovic
Production: Monkey Pack Films, Go Films, Logical Pictures
Duration: 100'
Year of Production: 2019
​Short Description: Is a war drama film directed by Guillaume de Fontenay Based on the book of the same name by French war correspondent Paul Marchand, the film stars Niels Schneider as Marchand covering the Bosnian War in the 1990s.
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