Title: The Way We Played
Duration: 13 minutes 20 seconds
Director: Samir Mehanovic
Writer: Samir Mehanovic
Production: Brazen Hussies Ltd.
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It's spring 1992 and Bosnia is on the eve of war. Oblivious to the encroaching danger two friends Stevo and Ramiz play in the spring sunshine. They pretend to be pirates and look for treasure at a nearby abandoned fort. Instead of gold they find guns which causes an argument between the friends which mirrors the conflict moving ever closer to their door. When Stevo discovers that his father, a soldier in the Serb army, has instructions to kill Muslims in the village, he sneaks out to warn his friend Ramiz, but will it be too late?
Producer Susan Nickalls
Editor Tadgh O'sullivan
Director of Photography Scott Ward
Sound John Cobban & Marcelo De Oliveira
Music Nigel Osborne
Associate Producer (Bosnia) Almir Sahinovic, Heft Doo
Executive Producer Nigel Smith
Stevo Almir Mehanovic
Ramiz Eldar Zubcevic
Bane Jasminko Hodzic
Mira Jasminka Pasic
Teacher Ivana Perkunic
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of the war - Maria Montessori
The Srebrenica Massacre was the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Bosnian War despite a United Nations peacekeeping force being in the area. The Srebrenica massacre is the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II and has been declared an act of Genocide. The Bosnian Serb forces targeted for extinction the forty thousand Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica, They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity. A judge at The Hague tribunal was later to describe what happened there as "truly scenes from hell written on the darkest pages of human history."
The short film is based on my own real experiences of war and tells about the tragedy that happens to the most innocent - the children. It was shot in Bosnia and we could find real guns easier than cameras - Samir Mehanovic