''I was dreaming that they were after me and wanted to kill me…'' – This could be a statement by someone who survived the horrors of a war, someone plagued by trauma that is never forgotten, someone whose experience is etched into the deepest part of their consciousness. My name is Mirela. I live and...

The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) is not only the most important film festival in South East Europe, but also a symbol of unquestionable courage and unwavering spirit of a city that survived one of the most terrible periods in modern history. This festival, which was established in 1995, when the siege of Sarajevo was still...

The Croatian War of the 1990s, for Croatian political elites, is one of the historical periods often and gladly used to promote crude ethno-nationalism, exploit the suffering of victims, and ignore court-established facts.



One event that marked the 1990s and still holds an important place in state commemorations is Operation 'Pocket '93', better known publicly as...

Do you know letters of self-compassion?



We are not talking about goodbye letters of authors parting with their identities and personalities they inherited nor about notes about the end of social and political systems that authors blindly believed into.



We are also not talking about fragmented pseudo dramas in which the ego and superego are substitutes for...

Philosopher Emil Cioran gives a special status to music in our being-in-the-world. He, with a masterful lucidity, affirms that "we carry in us all the music that we have not heard in our life, which lies in the bottom part of the abyss of memory. All that is musical in us is memory. When we...