PREKID VATRE
CEASEFIRE
Jakob Krese / Germany, Italy, Slovenia / 2025 / 30 min / Colour
Italian premiere
What was meant to be a temporary shelter has, for thirty years, been home to Hazira and many others like her who survived the Srebrenica massacre. Ježevac, a refugee camp near Tuzla in the mountainous region of Republika Srpska, the Serb-held part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has become a place where time seems frozen, and where Hazira is stuck. Her days are spent gathering firewood and cleaning obsessively. Worn out by exhaustion and smoke, she faces the trauma of war with a grim sense of humor. She’s constantly in motion, perhaps trying to outrun her memories and the dread that history might repeat itself. The camera mirrors her restless energy, with fragmented, shaky shots capturing her daily life in a world of forgotten people: young men and women without drive or direction, and elders who have lost the most precious thing they had, their land. At one point, a TV screen flashes images of the massacre unfolding in Palestine, a stark reminder that humanity seems to learn nothing from history.
Jakob Krese
Photographer and director, born in 1984, raised between former Yugoslavia and Germany, he studied Cinematography and Directing in Berlin and trained at the University of Fine Arts in Cuba and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bosnia. He is the founder of the independent production company Majmun Films. He co-directed the documentary La Espera (2020) and has participated in festivals such as IFFR Rotterdam and Visions du Réel. His feature film Lo que queda en el camino (2021) won an award at DOK Leipzig.
