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I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

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Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.

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When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.

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I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the country while I was studying, and we did not have neither electricity nor cinemas for three and a half years.

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I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.

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'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

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'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.

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My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

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It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

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As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.

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Biography

Nationality: Bosniak

Type: Director

Born: December 19th, 1974

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