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DESCRIPTION:Videoletters, Program 2   Katarina Rejger, Eric van den Broek 
 (Netherlands/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Slovenia/Macedonia/Croatia/Serbia and 
 Montenegro, 2004–5)   Introduced by Eric Stover   Eric Stover is director 
 of the Human Rights Center and adjunct professor of public health at UC 
 Berkeley.   A project designed to reconcile citizens of the former 
 Yugoslavia metamorphosed into an inspiring cinematic feat in this powerful 
 collection of video “letters” to and from former friends, neighbors, 
 and lovers. Dutch filmmakers Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek created 
 the project, and in most cases acted as initiators, recorders, and even 
 mail carriers, finding and bringing into contact those whom the war had 
 driven apart. Traveling across five separate republics, the two urged 
 people of different nationalities to send one another a video letter of 
 questions and answers, comments and expressions of sadness. A Bosnian woman 
 appeals to a former soldier to help find the bodies of her children; a 
 Croat tries to find an old friend, only to discover the friend is dead; and 
 a Muslim seeks his childhood best friend, but hears rumors that he is a war 
 criminal. Most, however, have only one question: “How are you?” Across 
 the Balkans, there are now over sixty places where individuals can record 
 their own letters; Bosnian radio stations now announce when a letter has 
 arrived from Serbia, and vice versa. In a further testament to the power of 
 this remarkable series (and to the commitment of the filmmakers), every 
 public television station in the former Yugoslavia agreed to broadcast the 
 episodes.   Winner, Nestor Almendros Prize 2005.   An additional program of 
 Videoletters screens on Friday, February 24.   —Jason Sanders   • 
 Photographed by various participants. (Total running time: 75 mins, In 
 Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian with 
 English subtitles, Color, Beta SP) \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86433.php
SUMMARY:Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2006
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive  2575 Bancroft Way  UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86433.php
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