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Grandeur et miniature de la Bosnie Herzégovine

Emmanuel Jespers
1996 Belgium 52 minutes bosniac

On the isle of Brac, guns and snipers are silent. Electricity is back, and gas too… Groups of teenagers, some women, a few men and old people stand under the archway of a hotel, waiting for the summer heat to die down. They are dressed as we are. They don’t talk much. For them, the Bosnian war is over. They have lost their country. Somewhere off the coast of Split, in Croatia, 2500 Bosnian refugees live on this small tourist island. In forced exile, starting from scratch, they trace their past. This film is the story of their memory regained.

Emmanuel Jespers

Diplôme d’architecture de l’UCL et de réalisation de l’IAD. De 1988 à 1996 il réalise des films publicitaires et industriels, puis des documentaires :

■ Delle (fiction), Childworth Egypt 1992 ■ Darko et Vesna, 1994-96 ■ Grandeur et miniature de la Bosnie Herzégovine, 1996 ■ Le Dernier rêve, 2000

Production :
To Do Today Productions
Distribution :
WIP Wallonie image Production
Editing :
Michèle Vander Syp; Denise Vindevogel
Sound :
Marc Engels
Photography :
Jean-Marc Vervoort

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