Sarajevo Safari

Sarajevo Safari (2022)

Among the many dramatic episodes of the siege of Sarajevo in the years 1992 to 1996, the story of a human safari has remained concealed from the public eye. Few people knew that those fighting the war on the Serbian side were not only the Bosnian Serb Army, volunteers and mercenaries but also a small, clandestine group: wealthy foreigners who paid high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents of the city under siege.

Date of release
2022-09-10
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Miran Zupanič

Casting

Interesting facts

Sarajevo Safari is a 2022 Slovenian documentary film directed by Miran Zupanič. The film alleges that during the siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996), a form of war tourism emerged involving the organization of human-hunting safaris through which wealthy foreigners paid high fees to shoot at civilians from sniper positions held by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS).

Production

The film is the third in director Miran Zupanič's unofficial "Bosnia trilogy," following Oči Bosne (1993) and Moj prijatelj Mujo (2012). Zupanič was first told the story in February 2019 by producer Franci Zajc, who had spent years searching for individuals willing to speak on camera about the phenomenon.

Zupanič described the story as "absolutely shocking," stating that he initially "could not believe that so much evil exists". He has stated that the film's intention was not to scandalize the public but to explore the "phenomenology of evil" and that it is "a film about the evil that people inflict on people," not one directed against any specific nation.

All archival footage used in the film, with one exception, was shot by the production team (led by Zajc) during the war in 1993 and 1994. Zupanič noted that some witnesses who initially agreed to participate later backed out, suggesting that fear was still present nearly 30 years later. The film was co-produced by the Slovenian production house Arsmedia and Al Jazeera Balkans.

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