The ethnographic film M.I.R. offers an insight into everyday lives and perspectives of four men of Bosnian Muslim origin. Mire, twin brothers Ibro and Ibrahim and Ramo are friends who live in postwar Srebrenica. Their individual life stories differ but what connects them is the last war in BiH and the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, which profoundly changed their lives and left their families incomplete. Despite their troubled past, these child survivors of war emphasize the necessity of reconciliation and mutual coexistence. The title of the film M.I.R. attempts to highlight the possibilities of coexistence. Not only it combines the initial letters of the main characters’ names, “mir” also means peace in several Slavic languages. The film is an experimental “ethnographic road movie” in the style of cinéma vérité – it is a reflexive work, which facilitates dialogue between the Srebrenica genocide survivors, Czech anthropologist Markéta and documentarist Viola.
© Markéta Slavková & Viola Tokárová 2021