QUB HRC/MI/TJ - Film Screening of 'My Father's Diaries'

To mark Human Rights Day 2025, QUB Human Rights Centre, Transitional Justice Cluster and Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice are delighted to host two events: a lecture with Selma Ćatović Hughes (please see here for details: https://bit.ly/3We38uP), and this film screening of My Father's Diaries in which, thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, filmmaker Ado Hasanović delves into his father's incredible story by exploring his diaries and footage from those years.

Both these events are part of a 3-day programme organised in collaboration with the Conflict Textiles Trust, QUB and Ulster University. Please see here for details https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-quilts2/fullevent1/?id=363 .

My Father's Diaries - synopsis
In August 1993, Bekir Hasanović trades a gold coin for a video camera, which he uses to document daily life in Srebrenica from that point onward. The footage he captures during the war, along with his makeshift crew, Dzon, Ben & Boys, presents an unexpected portrait of a disoriented population that holds on to reality with resilience and a healthy dose of humor.
Ado, Bekir’s son, uses these recordings and his father’s diaries to reconstruct his image. Together with his mother, Fatima, he seeks to understand how Bekir survived the Death March and the Srebrenica genocide

Ado Hasanović (Director) Biography

Ado Hasanović is a Bosnian film director and festival programmer based in Rome. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Filmmakers Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

His short films, such as The Angel of Srebrenica (2010), Mama (2013), Pink Elephant (2017), Nomofobia (2018), and Let There Be Colour (2020), have been selected and awarded in many international film festivals. His first documentary, My Father's Diaries, produced by Palomar (Italy) and Mediawan (France), premiered in 2024 at Visions du Réel.

This screening takes place at 6pm in Queen's Film Theatre in screen 2.

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