Araf

Araf is a road movie of Nayia, who travels between Srebrenica and Sarajevo to Mostar in Bosnia. She has been in exile since the war and returns for the 22nd memorial of the Srebrenica genocide. The film is guided by her notes and is merged with the myth of Daedalus and Icarus – Icarus being the name given to the winner of a bridge diving competition in Mostar. Icarus, which is a myth symbolic of man’s over-ambition and inevitable failure, is weaved throughout the film as a way to think about exorcizing the vicious cycle of such events happening in the future. Nayia also thinks of Icarus from a different angle, that of seeing the optimism of such a leap, his braveness of taking a leap into the unknown in this era of radical instability.