For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

  • October 21, 2016 / 21:00
  • October 23, 2016 / 17:00

Director: Jasmila Žbanić
Cast: Kym Vercoe, Boris Isaković, Simon Mcburney, Branko Cvejić, Leon Lučev
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013, 75’, color

Bosnian, English with Turkish subtitles

Jasmila Žbanić 's third film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales follows an Australian tourist as she discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities in a seemingly idyllic town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. On a summer holiday through Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kym is the picture of an average tourist: visiting the sites promoted in her guidebook and keeping a video diary. Yet her stay at a hotel in Visegrad inexplicably gives way to anxiety and sleepless nights. Upon returning home to Australia, she finds out that the Vilina Vlas hotel was used as a rape camp during the war. Questions around 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 testimonies she later finds online compel her to return to Visegrad and investigate this hidden history for herself.

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Trailer

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico was born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, to an Italian family. His mother, Gemma Cervetto, was from a family of Genoa origin, but most likely she was born in Izmir. His father, Evaristo, was born on June 21, 1841 in the Büyükdere district of Istanbul.

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Memory of the Region

Memory of the Region

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