Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Ado Hasanović, Armando Maria Trotta, Anna Zagaglia Fotografia / Photography: Ado Hasanović Montaggio / Editing: Esmeralda Calabria, Elisabetta Abrami, Desideria Rayner Musica / Music: Iosonouncane Suono / Sound: Daniele Viti, Matteo Bendinelli, Antonio Giannantonio Interpreti / Cast: Bekir Hasanović, Fatima Hasanović, Ado Hasanović Produzione, distribuzione per l’Italia / Produced by, Distributed in Italy by: Palomar in associazione con / in association with Mediawan Rights Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo – Ministero della Cultura Distribuzione internazionale / World Sales: Mediawan Rights
It is August 1993 when Bekir Hasanović exchanges a gold coin for the camera he will use to film everyday life in Srebrenica from then on. The images he records during the days of the war with his improvised crew, called Ben, John & Boys, give life to the unexpected portrait of a population lost, though able to maintain a solid connection with reality without giving up its typical humour. Ado, Bekir’s son, starts from these images and from the pages of the diaries kept by his father to reconstruct the image of his father and, together with his mother Fatima, finally be able to understand how he survived the Death March and the Srebrenica genocide.
“My Father’s Diaries is a meta-documentary that investigates my great difficulty in trying to talk about and with my father. For this reason, the images will be raw and scratchy… The story will be told in first person, as if I was writing a diary myself: from the difficulty in finding a channel of communication with my father, through his dreadful memories, ending with the appreciation of having survived.” (A. Hasanović)
Ado Hasanović
Bosnian-Italian filmmaker Ado Hasanović was born in 1986 in Srebrenica, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is based in Rome. He graduated in Directing from the Sarajevo Film Academy and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since 2015, he has been the artistic director of the festival “Passaggi d’Autore: Intrecci Mediterranei” in Sardinia. In 2024, he founded the Silver Frame Film Festival in Srebrenica. My Father’s Diaries premiered at the latest Visions du Réel.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography
2010 Anđeo Srebrenice (The Angel of Srebrenica) cm / sf 2012 Plavi Viking u Sarajevu (The Blue Viking in Sarajevo) cm / sf 2013 Mama cm / sf 2015 Breath of Life Srebrenica cm / sf 2017 Rock My Trumpet cm / sf; Pink Elephant cm / sf 2018 Nomofobia cm / sf 2020 Let There Be Colour cm / sf doc. 2024 My Father’s Diaries (I diari di mio padre) doc.
