A Touching Story from Srebrenica, 'My Father's Diaries,' Enters the Race for an Italian Oscar
The film 'My Father's Diaries' (I diari di mio padre), directed by Ado Hasanović, has been shortlisted in the Best Documentary Film category for the David di Donatello awards, often called the Italian Oscars.
TL;DR
- 'My Father's Diaries,' directed by Ado Hasanović, is a finalist for the David di Donatello award for Best Documentary Film.
- The film combines the director's own footage, his father Bekir Hasanović's amateur VHS recordings from the Srebrenica war, and six diaries written by his father.
- Bekir Hasanović documented daily life in Srebrenica and was a survivor of the 'March of Death'.
- The film explores the communication breakdown between father and son regarding the war's trauma.
- Ado Hasanović began filming his father after he survived a heart attack in 2016, and continued until his father's death in 2020.
- The diaries were entrusted to Bekir's mother by another woman, Seka, with whom Bekir had a relationship in Srebrenica.
- The documentary is described as a meta-documentary, exploring the difficulty of discussing war and connecting with his father.