Ceasefire

Hazira survived 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 humor and quiet resilience, Hazira copes with the trauma of a war that continues to define her life.

Jakob Krese grew up between the former Yugoslavia and Germany. Grandchild to Yugoslav partisans on one side and a Nazi judge on the other, he became obsessed with the tensions within the relationship between the individual and the collective. He tries to explore these structural connections in his cinematic work, searching for past memories and future possibilities of resistance. He studied cinematography and directing in Berlin, Havana, and Sarajevo and lives and works as a director, producer, and cinematographer between Trieste, Ljubljana, and Berlin.