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Prekid vatre

Ceasefire
Berlinale Shorts 2025
© Majmun Films
Hazira survived the massacre of Srebrenica. She has lived in the Ježevac refugee camp near Tuzla for almost 30 years. She has never been able to return to her home village in the mountains above Srebrenica. Today, it is in Republika Srpska, the Serbian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Put on hold by political and social conditions, her days are marked by survival routines – collecting firewood, cleaning obsessively and navigating the harsh conditions of camp life. Through dark humour and quiet resilience, Hazira copes with the trauma of a war that continues to define her life. To keep it from becoming too painful, she is in constant motion, always running from her memories, her situation, and the fear that it could start all over again. This standstill is symbolic of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina today. 2025 marks the genocide in Srebrenica and the end of the war in former Yugoslavia for the 30th time. This film pays tribute to those who are still suffering from the consequences of this war.
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by Jakob Krese (Director), Meta Krese (Screenplay) Germany / Italy / Slovenia 2025 30' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

Crew

Director Jakob Krese
Screenplay Meta Krese
Cinematography Jakob Krese
Editing Annika Mayer
Music Gaston Ibarroule
Sound Design Gaston Ibarroule
Producers Annika Mayer, Jakob Krese, Ivana Naceva

Produced by

Majmun Films

Zero Stress Productions

Pótem

Photos

Jakob Krese

© Jernej Čampelj

The filmmaker grew up in former Yugoslavia and Germany. As the grandchild of Yugoslav partisans on one side and a Nazi judge on the other, he became obsessed with the tensions in the relationship between the individual and the collective and now explores these structural connections in his films, searching for past memories and future possibilities of resistance. He studied cinematography and directing in Berlin, Havana and Sarajevo and lives and works in Trieste, Ljubljana and Berlin.

Filmography

2018 Kein Ende (No End); short film 2020 La espera; short film, co-director: Danilo Do Carmo 2021 Lo que queda en el camino (What Remains on the Way); Co-director: Danilo Do Carmo 2025 Primer paquete para Honduras (First Package to Honduras); short film · Prekid vatre (Ceasefire); short film

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025