Karasevdah: Srebrenica Blues — a film by Saidin Salkic
Karasevdah: Srebrenica Blues is a story of Australian reconciliation. This film is a journey through memory, an intimate and loving dialogue with the landscape of his birthplace, drawing the breath of beauty and life from it, seeking to move out from the shadows of the past to embrace new futures. The parallel between the tasks facing the survivors of Srebrenica and the challenges still confronting indigenous people around our country is striking.
After watching the film, indigenous leader Professor Marcia Langton AM, Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, said:
“…I was reminded of my own historical burden… While a very personal statement about love and attachment, it answers the terrible question on the lips of far too many people who have experienced loss and suffering: how can we overcome this intimacy with death and learn to see the beauty and joy in the world?".
Karasevdah is a film by Saidin Salkic and was produced with the support of Professor Paul Komesaroff and launched in 2007 by Global Reconciliation, with Professor Marcia Langton AM and Professor Richard Larkins AO, then Vice Chancellor of Monash University.