Diários da Bósnia

The director went to Bosnia in 1996 and two years later, in 1998. The movie is a diary of the two voyages, in which he deals with the memories of the war, the death and destruction and with the victims' struggle who don't know how to return home.

"This film was made in Bosnia after the end of the war, in June 1996. The images of this first trip were marked by the urgency that was still being experienced, a time more dominated by clamour than by words. When I returned in January 1998, it was not just a mantle of snow that had fallen over Bosnia, it was also a mantle of silence, broken only apparently by the chant of the muezzins. I could not break through the silence of my second journey nor the clamour of the first, although at the end of each day's filming my voice was speaking the words from the diaries I had written in Bosnia. For one simple reason - I am not from there, I am an outsider; I didn't live through what happened. But I hope I have succeeded, through the ordering of the images, in creating another dimension." (J. Sapinho)