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Posts tagged as “Bosnia”

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

DO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL? Director: Emir Kusturica, 1981, 109 mins, Yugoslavia Regarded as one of his best films, Kusturica won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this stylish coming of age story set in 1960‘s Sarajevo. Young Dino grows up in the shadow of his ailing father and is attracted to the world of small time criminals – and…

Tackling Trauma Through a Museum: The War Childhood Museum in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Please join the East Central European Center for a talk with Jasminko Halilović, Founder and Executive Director of the War Childhood Museum. How do you create a museum? Two years ago, young Bosnian author Jasminko Halilović and a small team of collaborators set out to establish an institution that would commemorate growing up during the country’s brutal war in the…