Summary
The Sarajevo Film Festival has become a healing event for the war-torn city. The screening of the film entries has served as symbol of Sarajevo's recovery from the ravages of the 1991-95 war. The 1998 event marks the first time that it achieved normalcy after four years of political turmoil. Two entries that created controversy were 'Wounds' and 'The Hornet,' by Serbian filmmakers Srjan Dragojevic and Gorcin Stojanovic, respectively. The films were shown despite local opposition.
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The Sarajevo Film Festival.
Filmgoing as a form of collective therapy for a traumatized population is not what you think of when you say 'film festival,' but the Sarajevo Film Festival is just that, and its fourth outing this August marked the first time fest organizers could say it was a full return to festival "normalcy" for the brave city that resisted a four-year barbar...
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