28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Cooling Waters
director: Jonas Scheu
original title: Hladivode
country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland
year: 2015
running time: 8 min.
synopsis
In a single take lasting several minutes, the film shows the village of Hladivode (whose names means “Cooling Waters”) near Sarajevo. After a slow tracking shot across an orchard, the camera zooms out to show a group of men engaged in conversation. They are filling in the bullet holes on a ruined building – a reminder of the recent events in the Balkan peninsula’s turbulent history.
biography
Jonas Scheu (1980) is a director, photographer and video artist. He has also shot documentaries in India (Amrit Nectar of Immortality, 2012) and in Myanmar (Ma Yan Chan – Waves of Transition, 2016).
more about film
director: | Jonas Scheu |
producer: | Jean-Guillaume Sonnier |
photography: | Adnan Branković |
music: | Emmanuel Burnier |
sound: | Alain Guillebeau |