The story of this year's award winning human rights film Calling The Ghosts is, to put it succinctly, about the rape as a weapon of war. Two women, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian Muslim, both from Prijedor, both lawyers, tell their gruesome stories of incarceration in concentration camp Omarska in a rather grey tone of their profession. There is no narration. Yet the film flows seamlessly, because the film makers obtained footage of every period in life of two heroes. The film actually take us to Omarska.
Pictures show everything short of actual act of rape.
The complex circle in which Bosnian Serb Army used mass rape as a weapon against the Muslim population has to be broken. It is almost too good to be true. Film makers are healthy aware and kind of worried of that. Still, they believe that the more global, the more general, the more far reaching film's message, fighting the war, destruction and violence against women, will outlast the contemporary political one. Yesterday, Mandy threw a barbecue party at her roof on Bowery.