Bosniak - Director | December 19, 1974 -
Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.
Jasmila Zbanic
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When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.
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What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.
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I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.
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It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.
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I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.
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'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.
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In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.
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In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.
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The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with other major religions and was much softer and more liberal.
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'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.
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The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.
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