Tals of the Drina
Director Andrea Foschi, Marco Neri
Countries Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration 75 min
Synopsis
BA. The village of Bratunac is no-man’s-land; it is controlled by UN troops and oppressed by sr nationalism. Stanojka «Cana» Tešic, with the help of her daughter Vladana and of Radmila Zarkovic, makes a decision: to contact the pacifists of former Yugoslavia and reunite them for the first time after the war. The initiative works and this is how the association Forum Zena came to be. Over time, Cana creates a tight-knit national and international network and manages to protect the women of a country in which their role had been annihilated, turning her social dream into a political reality.
BA. The village of Bratunac is no-man’s-land; it is controlled by UN troops and oppressed by sr nationalism. Stanojka «Cana» Tešic, with the help of her daughter Vladana and of Radmila Zarkovic, makes a decision: to contact the pacifists of former Yugoslavia and reunite them for the first time after the war. The initiative works and this is how the association Forum Zena came to be. Over time, Cana creates a tight-knit national and international network and manages to protect the women of a country in which their role had been annihilated, turning her social dream into a political reality.