‘Samir Mehic Bowie – Letters from Srebrenica’, a film directed by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina journalist Lamija Grebo in collaboration with the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, is now obtainable to understand free on designate online through YouTube, with English subtitles.
The 34-minute film looks on the lifetime of rock guitarist Mehic, who’s asserted to had been given his nickname attributable to he was one amongst the major of us in Srebrenica who listened to David Bowie.
Mehic remained in Srebrenica after it was besieged by Bosnian Serb forces in the spring of 1992. He died in the July 1995 massacres, which had been categorized as genocide by worldwide courts.
https://www.youtube.com/understand?v=8NRYcKakCoc
Grebo has outlined that the film originated from a plan story she wrote about Mehic in 2020.
“The need arose to mumble a story about Samir, but additionally about a quite so a lot of Srebrenica, which many folk presumably even don’t in finding out about, wherein there existed a rock scene and truly serious gigs,” she stated.
Grebo, who spoke to his family and mates, besides to quite so a lot of of us that knew the guitarist, described the film as “a story that will stay a testimonial about life, esteem, track and friendship”.
‘Samir Mehic Bowie – Letters from Srebrenica’ was filmed as share of a BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina challenge financed by the Authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The video editor was Elvedin Zorlak, the editor was Semir Mujkic, and the documentary was produced by Denis Dzidic. Actor Igor Skvarica plays Mehic in dramatised reconstructions in the route of the film.