![]() ![]() It was like a capsule and that’s what kept us sane all the time.” “None of us thought about what’s going on outside. It was kind of like teleporting to another place, like Amsterdam or Berlin, London or New York,” he said at the film festival. People would come and listen they would have fun. Zlatar Bure recalls how Sikter, his band, played in a club called Obala that took on a legendary status. At night they took refuge and sought each other’s company in underground clubs and bars, risking their lives as they ran through sniper zones even just to reach the venues. The protagonists recount their daily struggles avoiding sniper fire, living without water, electricity, gas and heat amid shortages of food, fuel and medicines. They wanted to find purpose, to feel human, to feel normal.” “Even in the darkest of times, people used music and art as a form of rebellion and survival and to help others. “Our intention was to humanise what it was like to go through something so horrific but in that darkness to find the most beautiful signs of humanity,” he told the Guardian. Kiss the Future, directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, which had its premiere at the Berlin film festival, has brought together musicians, artists and journalists who used music and art to rebel against their imprisonment and to assert their right to a multicultural identity amid Serb nationalist attempts to destroy them and their cultural heritage.Ĭicin-Sain, who was born in Slovenia to a Serbian mother and Croatian father, said he had been inspired by the rise of nationalism around the world to grapple with the story, and felt it was timely to bring it to a new audience. ![]() A father’s hands press against the window of a bus carrying his son and wife to safety from the besieged city of Sarajevo in 1992. ![]()
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