FES SOE has been working on Dealing with the Past throughout the region in many different formats. However, since 2021, we have expanded our partnership on this program to include several different and unique platforms contributing to achieving genuine reconciliation in Southeast Europe. While recognizing that experiences from the past and priority challenges vary throughout the region, many of them are primarily linked to the trauma and history of the 90s conflicts in the Western Balkans. When creating our activities, though, we wanted to explore beyond the usual methods and decided to focus the majority of our work in creating meaningful progress in promotion of peace and just and fair societies by using art and culture as our starting point.
Dealing with the Past in Southeast Europe currently covers partnerships with three film festivals in the region, namely the world-famous Sarajevo Film Festival, Rab Film Festival and Novi Sad Film Festival „Obnova“. Within these partnerships, FES SOE works on bringing together young people from the region and facilitating the exchange of the experiences they have when it comes to reconciliation and the history of the region. In addition to hosting film screenings related to these topics, we also establish workshops, dialogue with artists and film creators, academics and their peers.
Asife from our work with the powerful medium that cinema truly is, we work on other activities that we recongize as valuable to fostering respectful culture of rememberance and objective telling of the region's history. With other FES offices in the region, we work on the Joint History Project, the History of the Goli Otok in Croatia and other activities that we hope can bring about a meanigful change in understanding the past in Southeast Europe.
For the fourth time in a row, the Dealing with the Past program organizers, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation—Dialogue for Southeast Europe, in cooperation with the Delegation of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Zivilerfriedensdienst Forum, had the pleasure of welcoming 22 young people from all over the region.
The program will gather young people from the Western Balkans to attend the Sarajevo Film Festival and tell the story of intercultural dialogue, youth cooperation, diversity and peace building.
With the end of the 29th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, another edition of the "Dealing with the Past" program was closed. This year, the program included screening eight films and additional workshops, tours, and educational talks for young people from the Western Balkans.
At the #29thSFF, the "Dealing with the Past" program brings forth authentic stories of real events and individuals who courageously delve into the traumas of recent history. Through the True Stories Market, dialogue becomes a bridge to personal testimonies, igniting inspiration for future film projects. The program is supported by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation (FES).
„Unpleasant issues from the past must be included in the education system, because their scientific and pedagogical treatment creates a basis for preventing violations of human rights and repression, and gives an impulse to critical thinking, freedom of expression, attitude towards otherness and democratization“, concluded the gathered participants at the seminar on the Goli otok (Barren Island), organized for history professors by the Center for Civic education (CGO), Association of History Professors of Montenegro (HIPMONT) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES).
On March 21st, we opened the exhibition "Imagine: Reflections on Peace "with our partners from VII Academy, Forum Ziviler Friedendienst, and our colleagues from FES Belgrade at the Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju.
From the 11th to the 17th of February, Sarajevo was home to the special edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival titled Dealing with the Past / Present. Together with Sarajevo Film Festival and partners Pro-Future (USAID Project), Catholic Relief Services, and Forum Ziviler Friedendienst, FES SOE co-hosted two programs for youngsters in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans.
From the 10th to 14th of October, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute and the German Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, supported the project "Remember – Feel – Understand – Act, "based on the campaign of renowned German actor Thomas Darchinger for artistic democracy. The events consisted of the performance of "Das andere Leben / The Other Life, "a performance by Thomas Darchinger, as well as public discussion and workshops following the performative reading.
From the 1st to the 4th of September, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue SOE cooperated with the Novi Sad Film Festival "OBNOVA" and facilitated the establishment of cooperation between Sarajevo and Novi Sad Film Festivals. The contributions to the Festival were based on FES SOE's work on reconciliation and dealing with the past in the region.
Rab Film Festival lasted from 18th to 24th August on its name-sake island Rab, in Croatia. This was the festival's fourth edition, and it gathered prominent film industry members, artists, film enthusiasts, musicians, locals, and internationals again. What was unique about this edition is that it had an addition to the program in cooperation with Sarajevo Film Festival and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe for the first time.
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Guided by the paradigm of critical historical science, FES hopes that this brochure will help you understand what exactly took place on this small Adriatic island – Goli Otok – and allow you to draw lessons for the present and the future.
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