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• Untold
Stories
is a documentary movie about the examples of good and even heroic deeds, in
which people helped people of different nationality during the time of wars in
the Ex-Yugoslavia since 1991, risking their lives, but also risking
excommunication from their own ethnic group
• Eleven
years after signing of Dayton agreement, the event that marked the begging
of the process of the return of peace to our region, we are still
witnesses of the obvious consequences of war that present an obstacle to
the efforts to reconstruct multiethnic communities in this war-torn region.
After some positive shifts concerning security process of reconciliation
in our region has been stalled. Red
roofs of reconstructed houses in post-war areas, give hope for the future,
but how hard it is to live under those red roofs only people that returned,
carrying with them a heavy burden of war-trauma, know. By returning to
their homes, all those people are facing a challenge of rebuilding good
neighbour relationships, as a precondition for a building of appropriate
social environment with future in their multiethnic societies. To these
people, with their personal traumas, in a present situation where media is
still focused on a hate-speech and intolerance toward different ethnic
groups, as well as on presenting just a negative side of the truth, the
challenge of building sustainable coexistence proves to be even harder to
achieve.
But there are people in those small
communities who where capable to differentiate between good and evil and
to risk their own lives in order to save lives of neighbours, friends, and
often unknown people , disregarding their national or religious background.
These people and their deeds are a healthy
base on which all of us together can and will build progressive and
functional multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society.
The noble and unselfish deeds of these people are also part of our
heritage and the future generations should remember a present generation
for this as well.
• We
will explore and use this social potential in Ex-Yugoslavia ethnical and
religious diverse societies as a fundament for reestablishing inter-ethnic
dialogue and social reconstruction of those societies, but also to present
to wider European public a positive heritage of mutual cooperation and
understanding of different ethnic, religious and cultural groups. With
this project we will highlight positive examples from our nearest history
as universal values on which our societies are based. We will promote this
part of our heritage as a fundament for building and accepting modern
universal values of tolerant and righteous communities. This project will
present, to a wider European public, mutual values that nations of Ex-Yugoslavia
share with a European nations and raise awareness about possible common
future of all cultures, religions and nations of Europe.
On the behalf of NDC Osijek, contact
person for this project is Srdan
Antic.
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