Film selection: AJB DOC Film Festival

Al Jazeera was launched in 1996 as the first independent Arabic news channel in the world. Ten years later, Al Jazeera has launched a program in English and in November 2011, a program in the Balkans. Al Jazeera Balkans is owned by Al Jazeera Media Network – multimedia and multinational conglomerate that owns all news channels of Al Jazeera, several specialized programs (from documentaries to children’s programs) and a network of global prestigious sports programs. News programs of Al Jazeera currently have 82 centres across the world, making this network the largest in the world after the BBC.

From 2018, in cooperation with Al Jazeera Media Network and Al Jazeera Media Institute, Al Jazeera Balkans organizes the international documentary film festival AJB DOC. Martovski Festival will screen two AJB DOC award winners, co-produced by Al Jazeera Balkan and Brand Me (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

 

A Feat Of Perseverance

  1. / 48’ 38”  

Directed by: Nerminka Emrić

Audience Award winner for the best documentary, AJB DOC 2019

The story deals with the forgotten hero of the past, Marin Radul, known in Communist Yugoslavia as the Titan from the island of Mljet. With his own hands, and assisted by his wife Nike, Marin dug through a 96-meter-long rock to create agricultural land. This story celebrates a man by remembering the fragments of past times unimaginable to new generations. 

*Serbian premere

Neighbours

  1. / 29’

Directed by: Nerminka Emrić

AJB Programme Award, AJB DOC 2020

Nearly three decades after their lives were upended by Europe’s most brutal conflict since the World War II, residents of eastern Bosnia, many of them former refugees, and their first neighbors across the border in Serbia are again witnessing human suffering. This timethose who suffer before their eyes are migrants and refugees escaping war and persecution in their faraway homelands. 

*Serbian premiere

Nerminka Emrić

 

Holds a political science degree, investigative journalist, film director. Worked at B&H Television, Federal Television, Sarajevo Television, and the Center for Investigative Journalism. Founder of Brand-Me Productions. The auteur of three documentaries.