
(ANSA) - ROME, 18 NOV - Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a land divided by political, identity and cultural rifts. This unresolved legacy is brought into focus in "Zemlja - Divided Memory. The Land That Remembers, The Land That Forgets", an independent documentary by journalists Tatjana Đorđević and Joshua Evangelista, with photography by Nicolino Sapio. The 40-minute film will be screened for the first time in Italy on 19 November at 10 a.m. in the "Vittorio Bachelet" lecture hall of the Department of Political Science at Sapienza University of Rome. The screening will be followed by a debate between the authors and Renata Gravina, Alessandro Guerra, Goran Losic, Luca Micheletta and Ilaria Zavaresco. The film travels through Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Srebrenica, following the daily lives of two teenagers, Nia and Jakša, who grow up in parallel worlds, separated by opposing school systems and historical narratives. Their journeys reveal educational programmes that change depending on ethnicity and territory: in some schools, genocide is denied, in others war criminals are celebrated, while the memory of the conflict becomes a battleground for politics and identity. The two young people are joined by testimonies from teachers, historians, journalists and activists, including Nerma Hailović Kibrić, Sanja Kobilj, Džana Brkanić, Ismar Porić, Edvin Kanka Čudić, Selma Bajraktarović and Murat Tahirović, along with citizens and artists involved in cultural projects and remembrance initiatives. Their voices paint a picture of profound fragmentation, in which recent history continues to be manipulated through propaganda, monuments, symbols and distortions of the past. According to the authors, the documentary invites reflection on what remains after a conflict and what happens when peace fails to truly heal collective trauma. 'There is still no shared memory of what happened," emphasises Tatjana Đorđević. 'The wounds are being exploited for political ends and nationalism, instead of diminishing, appears stronger than ever. The division of the education systems is one of the most serious obstacles to reconciliation". (ANSA).