I am very pleased to invite you to
the premiere of Karasevdah: Srebrenica Blues
at the State Library in Melbourne
at 6 pm on Friday 27th July 2007.
Karasevdah is the first film by the
young Melbourne
director, Saidin Salkic. It is a lyrical record of his return to Srebrenica
twelve years after the massacre that destroyed his family and led to his
arrival in Australia.
The film will be launched by
Professor Marcia Langton, Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne,
and Professor Richard Larkins, Vice Chancellor of Monash University.
Admission is free and refreshments
will be provided. RSVP is required. Please see the attached flyer for details.
We look forward to seeing you!
Sincerely,
Paul Komesaroff
Convener
Global Reconciliation Network
"This cinematic document is truthful and this rare
quality makes it extraordinary. When I watched it, I was reminded of my own
historical burden and experiences in East Timor
in 1999. While a very personal statement about love and attachment, it answers
the terrible question on the lips of far too many people who have experienced
such loss and suffering: how can we overcome this intimacy with death and learn
to see the beauty and joy in the world? " Marcia Langton
The
Global Reconciliation Network (www.grn.org.au)
is a coalition of groups and individuals around the world working towards the broad
goal of reconciliation, understood as the process of establishing communication
and dialogue across the divides of nationality, religion, race and culture.