SEAD AND AMIR [Main Title]

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  • Title: SEAD AND AMIR [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UNT 582
  • Other titles: UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: UNTV interviews Sead and Amir, two young men from eastern Bosnia who are living as refugees in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They describe their lives before the war and the impact that the conflict has had on their prospects for the future.
  • Description: Sead Dzafić introduces himself. He says that he is from Bijeljina and is 20 years old. He says that he came to Ljubljana on April 11th 1992. He is preparing breakfast in the small apartment that he shares with his parents. He helps both of his parents on a daily basis because they are ill and cannot work. He says that when he arrived, he did not have enough money to continue his education. He describes his life before the war and the changes that the conflict has brought. His family had to leave because his father is a Muslim, his mother is a Bosnian Serb and Sead, as a child of a mixed marriage was not safe in the town. He describes life during the war as horrible, never knowing if relatives in the next town were safe, spending time sheltering in cellars and being interrogated by the authorities. When they were told not to leave the house, they knew it was time to run away. Over the next few weeks, they fled first to Brcko and then on to Slovenia. His brother decided to stay behind and they have heard nothing from him since 1992, just rumours from others, some say that he is alive, others that he is dead. Sead’s mother sits, quietly knitting. He describes setting up home in a run-down apartment. Shots of residents talking outside, beside the washing hanging out to dry. He says that his sister and her baby went to Berlin with her husband and he stayed here with his parents. He says that he would only return to Bosnia if he knew that his brother was alive, otherwise it was a place without beauty and any town but his own would treat him like a refugee and his own would treat him as an outsider. Amir Al Zubi, 17 years old, explains that he has been in Ljubliana for two and a half years and he comes from Bratunac, a town on the border with Serbia. He was prevented from crossing the border into Germany and so Slovenia has become his temporary home. Shots of comic strips that Amir has drawn. He says that he has been drawing for longer than he can remember. His comic strips are published in a top-selling magazine in Bosnia. His heroes used to universal characters but now he tries to make them Bosnian. He says that although Muslim themes come up in his comic strips, he does not seek to exclude Orthodox and Catholic minorities in Bosnia. In fact the mixture of people acts as an inspiration. He says that by drawing cartoons he is contributing to the magazines of today for the archives of the future.
  • Alternative Title: UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: English (Tape Code A)
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: UNT 582
  • Sound: Croatian (Tape Code C)
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 1994-12 1995-05-31
  • Production Country: UN
  • Production Details: Mackey, Robert (Production individual) Hrebickova, Janina (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: Slovenia & Ljubljana (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: English (Tape Code A) Sound format: Croatian (Tape Code C) Soundtrack language: Serbian (Tape D)
  • Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP Running time: 9 mins 45 secs
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UNT 582

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    UNT 703 (UNTV PROGRAMME NO 88 [Main Title]) UNT 754 (UNTV PROGRAMME NO 101 [Main Title]) UNT 583 (LJUBLJANSKA KRONIKA [Main Title])
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