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The film features Hasema Aliskovic and Lejla Fazlic, who describe what they have gone through while growing up without their fathers.
Hasema Aliskovic was two, when her father was taken to Keraterm detention camp, near Prijedor, while Lejla Fazlic was only a few months old, when her father went missing without trace. One of them has found her fathers remains, while the other one has not.
Following the screening of the documentary, a panel discussion on the Trans-generational transfer of trauma and the importance of memorialization was held.
Hasema Aliskovic said that she agreed to become part of this film for the sake of other children, who did not want to share their emotions in public.
I agreed to do it, because I want people to see and pay attention to us, the children, instead of focusing only on mothers and fathers, who lost their sons, or wives, but also us, the children, who do not actually remember. We have our imagination. I create my father using stories and photographs. I saw him, but I do not remember him, Aliskovic said.
Matthew Holliday of the International Commission for Missing Persons, ICMP, said that this film was very important because it offered a possibility to see how the issue of the missing affected young people.
This is the first documentary by the Association of Prijedor women – Izvor, which was produced with support from the International Commission for Missing Persons, ICMP.
