#documnetary

So I just finished watching the HBO documentary Andre the Giant...

Andre the Giant is a documentary film chronicling the life and career of the films namesake, from his time growing up in France, his early years in the wrestling business, his rise to super-stardom, up until his untimely passing. 

A solid film. A very interesting look into the life and career of one of the greatest wrestlers to ever live...

Good editing, very fascinating interviews and perspectives, good soundtrack, great use of archival footage (some interesting information and footage that I didn't know or hadn't seen before), etc.

The examination of Andre's later years, when his health was failing and he was close to death's door, was heart breaking. It makes me think what he could have contributed to wrestling had he gotten the necessasry surgery earlier and been able to live longer.

Though I did find that they spent a little too much time on the rise of Vince and his den of musclely men. Like, I get that explaining the death of the territories and Vince taking the WWE national is important for setting up Wrestlemania 3, but any fan watching this doesn't need that recap. The director could have spent more time examining Andre and his life during Vince's takeover.

Further, in terms of filmmaking, it was about on par with other WWE documentaries. I was expecting a little more since this was an HBO production. I expected the director to take this in more interesting places. It was effective and well done, but nothing I haven't seen before.

Overall, this was a pretty good documentary about a pop culture icon and living legend in professional wrestling. A story told with class. Worth a watch.

8 out of 10.

I would like to thank my production crew and all the people involved in producing our film “Rigga Road Ramadan 1st Night” that were selected and nominated for the “Quarter Finalist” on short documentary film section of the festival held at Pollonzo, Italy. This is such an honor to be selected among thousands of entries from filmmakers worldwide and to be able to be on the quarter finalist, just…

"Sonja"

"Sonja"

The Sonja Pension and the Bunker detention facility were established in March 1992 for Bosniak civilians. The prisoners were subjected to daily abuse, torture, and forced labour in combat zones where they were killed and wounded. The Army of RS had jurisdiction over the facility. At least fifteen women and girls were raped at the Sonja Pension.

In the documentary film “Sonja”, we witness the struggle of one man to survive in the camp. Prisoner Haris Hastor describes the days spent in captivity, torture, mistreatment, facing death, struggle, fear, powerlessness and finally escape.

Haris Hastor will tell the story of the struggle for bare life, about hopes and fears, and about the life he lives today.

During the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina and the siege of Sarajevo, Serbian paramilitary forces as well as military formations of the RS Army committed numerous crimes against the civilian population.

Haris Hastor was 21 years old when he was captured and taken to the Vogošća camp. The days of torture he spent in the camp still goes trough his mind. This is documentary about his survival.

In the „Sonja“ and the „Bunker“ camp, many citizens of Vogošća were detained, women were raped and some were executed after being raped, and the detained men were tortured, mistreated, raped and many never got to experience freedom.

In May 1992, Hastor was captured in Vogošća by members of the VRS and imprisoned in the Sonja camp, the Bunker facility.

In August 1992, Haris Hastor defected to the Side of the Army of the RBiH and was the first inmate to succeed in doing so.

"صمت العقل" ، وهو فيلم وثائقي يستخدم مواد أرشيف محكمة لاهاي لاستكشاف كيفية تعرض النساء للعنف الوحشي خلال حرب البوسنة ، عرضه العالمي الأول في مهرجان سراييفو السينمائي.

يسلط الضوء على التجارب المروعة للنساء اللواتي عانين من العنف الجنسي والتعذيب في معسكرات الاغتصاب في منطقة فوتشا Foča خلال الحرب على البوسنة والهرسك، لأول مرة في مهرجان سراييفو السينمائي يوم الثلاثاء.

يعرض الإجراءات القانونية الرائدة في محكمة جرائم الحرب التابعة للأمم المتحدة في لاهاي، وهي أول قضية أمام المحكمة الجنائية الدولية تضمن إدانات بالاغتصاب كشكل من أشكال التعذيب والاسترقاق الجنسي كجريمة ضد الإنسانية – وهو تطور حاسم في العدالة الدولية وحقوق الإنسان.

تم اختيار الفيلم الوثائقي لبرنامج مسابقة أفضل فيلم وثائقي في مهرجان سراييفو السينمائي ال 29 لهذا العام. الفيلم من إنتاج كوميانا نوفاكوفا Kumjana Novakova ودعم إنتاجه بمنحة من المعهد للصحفيين والفنانين والمؤرخين ونشطاء المجتمع المدني تغطي مواضيع تتعلق بمحفوظات المحكمة الجنائية الدولية ليوغوسلافيا السابقة والمحاكم المحلية في البلدان اليوغوسلافية السابقة التي تناولت قضايا جرائم الحرب بالشراكة مع BIRN

Children Raped in the #Srebrenica Genocide النساء ضحايا الحرب في البوسنة و سربرنيتشا

synopsis

Built solely from forensic visual archive 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.

SILENCE OF REASON by Kumjana Novakova

2010: https://shayunbiqalbi.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post_12.html