Impressive interest of the audience at the opening of the FAST FORWARD Festival in Berane

The overcrowded Hall of the Culture Centre Berane at the opening of the Berane edition of the FAST FORWARD Festival, organized by the Centre for Civic Education (CCE), in cooperation with the Berane Municipality, Cultural Centre Berane and Gymnasium ’Panto Malisic’, confirms that this concept of communicating human rights reached broad audience in this city.

Impressive interest of the audience at the opening of the FAST FORWARD Festival in Berane

Opened exhibition “BEHIND THE SEVEN CAMPS: From crime of culture to culture of crime”

At the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the only culture that is stronger than the crime culture is the culture of oblivion, as assessed today at the opening of the exhibition of photos “BEHIND THE SEVEN CAMPS: From Crime of Culture to Culture of Crime”, by Hrvoje Polan, organised by the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) and German Forum ZfD, within the X jubilee edition of the FAST FORWARD Human Rights Film Festival Montenegro at the Montenegrin National Theatre.

Opened exhibition “BEHIND THE SEVEN CAMPS: From crime of culture to culture of crime”

The Diary of Diana B

This is a true story about the great people in the worst of times. Diana Budisavljevic and her husband, a doctor, daughters and newly born granddoughter live the life of a high-class in Zagreb. In the fall of 1941, she learned that Jewish and Serbian women were being taken to the detention camps where they were left to die from hunger and disease. The Jewish municipality sends aid to the Jews, but no one cares about the Serbian women. She initiates and leads an action that will save more than 10,000 children from certain death in the Ustasha camps by the end of the war.

The Diary of Diana B

Our Mothers

This year’s Belgian Oscar nominee deals with the aftermath of a long-running civil war in Guatemala that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples. The year is 2018 and the whole country is preoccupied with the trials of former Civil War commanders, with victim statements coming from all sides. Ernesto is a young forensic anthropologist whose job it is to identify the bodies of the dead. One day, in the story of an old witness, he notices a clue that might lead him to the father of a guerrilla who disappeared in the war.

Our Mothers

What a country!

The film consists of three stories whose structure and interconnections we discover throughout the film. The main characters are a general who feels a strong desire to commit suicide, disappointed in what Croatia has become, a minister in the Government of the Republic of Croatia who, without a court verdict, imprisons himself in a cell because assessing that his place is there, as well as a group of parents of different nationalities (Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks) who, by excavating dead presidents of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia, want to force the governments of these countries to finally find their children who disappeared during the war.

What a country!