Tag: Malgorzata Karpiuk

Living next door to Auschwitz

WHAT WOULD YOU tell your children if you lived next door to hell? While they ramble through their idyllic garden and live their perfect life, how would you explain the occasional screams of abject terror uttered by strangers, in the night, or the appearance of blood on your […]

Srebrenica: Lest we forget

WAR IS WELL-TRODDEN story-telling material. It’s about loyalties and politics, love and conflict. It’s about cruelty and kindness, territory and wealth. In short, it’s a microcosm of what makes society tick, ramped up to its most violent. Jasmila Zbanic’s film Quo Vadis, Aida? an extraordinary tale of a […]