The Film
Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Ado Hasanović delves into his father’s incredible story by exploring his diaries and footage from those years.
SYNOPSIS
In August 1993, Bekir Hasanović trades a gold coin for a video camera and begins documenting daily life in Srebrenica. The footage he captures with his makeshift crew, Dzon, Ben & Boys, offers an unexpected portrait of a disoriented population holding on to reality with resilience and humour. Ado uses these recordings and his father’s diaries to reconstruct his image and understand how Bekir survived the Death March and the Srebrenica genocide.
The film I never wanted to make
My Father’s Diaries is a documentary about my father, Bekir Hasanović, an amateur cameraman during the Bosnian War and one of the few men to survive the Death March. In 2011, my mother gave me his diaries and asked me to hide them because he wanted to destroy everything. After he survived a heart attack in 2016, I felt the urgency to turn the camera towards him.