Jasmila Žbanić : 2013
On a summer holiday through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kym, an Australian tourist, is visiting the sites and souvenir shops promoted in her guidebooks and keeping a video diary. She decides to travel to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history on the border between Bosnia and Serbia. But inexplicably, one night spent there at a charming hotel gives way to anxiety and insomnia. Something is wrong, but she is not quite sure what. Once Kym is back in Sydney, she does some background research and discovers that the enchanting hotel she stayed in was a centre for torture, violence and death. Evocations of the region's atrocities begin to haunt her, as does the question of why the guidebook, or the town itself, made no mention of the event. The spectre of trauma is finally so insistent that she is compelled to return to Višegrad and investigate this hidden history for herself. But it is a history that no one wants to remember. Part drama, part essay film, Jasmila Žbanić's third feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2013.
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