MK, BA

2023

63 min

Finished

Silence of Reason

Šutnja razuma

Directing: Kumjana Novakova

Synopsis

Forensic video essay built as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for rape as a form of torture and for sexual enslavement as crime against humanity.
While working solely with visual archive and testimonies, The Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, it rejects framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture by women from the Foča rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our collective memories, surpassing time and space.

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True Story Podcast, EP 55: Kumjana Novakova about her award-winning film Silence of Reason
15. 12. 2023

True Story Podcast, EP 55: Kumjana Novakova about her award-winning film Silence of Reason

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Nicole Jennifer Adelman talks with Kumjana Novakova about her new powerful film - Silence of Reason. The film focuses on one case of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, known as the Foča Rape Camps trial.
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Major success for participants of IDF projects at the Sarajevo Film Festival
28. 8. 2023

Major success for participants of IDF projects at the Sarajevo Film Festival

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Two awards at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival went to IDF participants' films. Anna Gyimesi received the Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Student Film for her graduation project Falling; Kumjana Novakova was granted the Human Rights Award
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IDF alumni at 29th Sarajevo Film Festival
26. 7. 2023

IDF alumni at 29th Sarajevo Film Festival

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Sarajevo Film Festival (11-18 August) has just published the programme of the Documentary Film competition. ​​​​​​​We are delighted to see that some of our alumni films, which previously participated in different IDF programs.
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