Built solely from forensic visual archives and testimonies, Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, rejecting framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture to women from the Foča rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our own collective memories, surpassing time and space.
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Country
North Macedonia, Bosnia and HerzegovinaYear
2023Length
63'
Category
DocumentaryOrigin of archival materials
TESTIMONIES, VIDEOS, PHOTOS and TEXTS ARCHIVE from United Nations, ICTY Court Records.Original language of the film
English, BosnianScreenplay
Kumjana NovakovaEditing
Jelena MaksimovicSound
Vladimir ZivkovicProduction
Kumjana NovakovaDistribution
Sofia TocarDirector’s biography
Originally born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. She is the co-founder of the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, and acts as its chief curator and director. As an author, her research lays between cinema and contemporary video art, often exploring how moving images address identities, memories and the collective self. Currently she is an associated professor at Master of Film of the Netherlands Film Academy.
