Life continues in a Sarajevo street, despite the snipers and shelling from the hills above.

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In November 1993 BBC2 began to broadcast "Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege", a 2-minute film shown every night before the 22.30 Newsnight programme. It was bringing a day-by-day account of how the siege was affecting a group of ordinary citizens. Ademir Kenovic, a graduate of the Sarajevo Film and Theater Academy, and Patrice Barrat, a director from an independent French production company, gathered and edited the footage each day.  Finally, a longer film was cut and broadcast in March 1994.

In 1994 the film "Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege" ("Chaque jour pour Sarajevo") received a BAFTA (British Academy Award of Film & TV Arts) award and the Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival.

Views about this film after it was published online in December 2007.
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Milosck wrote: This should have never happened, the hair on my skin is pointing up, because the sound of a gun shot means another life is taken. This is terrible what my country did, but the balkans were attacking eachother. Let’s hope we can start a relation between the balkans, and hope this will never happen again.

casino16:
because we are all de sensitized to violence…..we laugh at it now

bmwcekacar:
svi su krivi za ovo i srbi i hrvati i muslimani ,ovo je tuga ,siromasni ljudi muka beda jad i ocaj ..ovo ne treba vise nikad da se ponovi . . .

dudianus:

But how did you manage to get over it? I was in Sarajevo in April and I can say it was the most personal experience of my life, the contrast between the beauty of the town and landscapes and the scars of war is really terrible. I remember images from tv, it was so close to me (Romania) and I was not able to understand how this could happened. Be proud of your country, it is the most beautiful I have ever seen. Hvala

NoMoreLiesAboutMe:
I cant eaven watch this it so scary i was just born when the war started so luckly i dont remember…
It is so terible let it never hapen again.

pacoieck:
“Nationalism is first and foremost paranoia, individual and collective paranoia. As collective paranoia it is the product of envy and fear and primarily the result of a loss of individual consciousness; it is thus nothing but a set of individual paranoias raised to the degree of paroxysm.” (Danilo Kiš, late Yugoslavian writer)

ahmi94:

I grow-up with this war on TV. Some of the children i meet in school at this time were refugees from this ex-yougoslavia.
Stupid war ! now, bosnian, serbs, croats, all of you are living in smalls countries and hating each other. don’t you now you are made by the same flesh and blood ? you are human, why this fucking hate between all of you ? for your fucking stupid own nationalism or religion ?

DadoPennsylvania:
ne mogu da vjerujem da momci koji su zivjeli u nekadasnjim finim vremenima kao sto sam ja …to jeste prije rata se mre ovako kao vas trojica. Kao prvo svi zivite sada u inostranstvu i napustili ste ono sto toliko patriotski branite. Ne znate ni na nasem da pricate izmedju sebe ali MRZNJU imate. Smirite se malo i shvatite vec jednom da se niste vi zavadili nego neko drugi radi njihovih interesa. Nikom od nas nije bilo dobro niti ce budemo normalni. Ne mora to biti jedna zemlja ali dobar komsiluk.

crysiseternity:
I liked the video.
I just want all Bosniacks, Croats and Muslims to remain neutral or allied. There has been enough killing between us and it is time to stop!

djpedy:
war sucks, lived just oustide sarajevo from 89 till 99 ,so since i was 3 till i was 13.
it wasnt fun groving up in a war zone.

ELiTE906:
this is sad. i think the british SAS soldiers have killed most of the terrorist snipers though.

breadbaker:
half born there and been UN soldier… cannot forget and don’t want to! remember this city, what it was and what it turned to be… this is what mankind is doing to each other…
this is crazy!

zuuruvo:
hey the UN soldiers are french, he didn’t say “get lost we have work to do”, he said: “(the name of his friend), hurry we are gonna be late”.
the documentary is really great.

gizmo496:
Zašto ljudi moraju ovako da pate i stradvaju zbog cega zbog koga,zbog vjere,zbog neceg šta nitko još nije uspijio da dokaže.Nemojte ljudi da se ubijamo nije to vrijedno patnje boli razaranja.Budite svi živi i zdravi i sretno,smijte se.Neka vam svima bude ovo dobro pouka da sami razmišljamo svojom glavom ne trebaju nam vjera politika samo nas lažu i tjeraju na mržnju.

ROCKYMARCIANOXX0:
im reading a book called “All Necessary Measures”, bio of an SAS bloke on his tour of Bosnia. Really good book with fantastic pics but really wanted to see what it was really like and this is a brill vid (sorry for sounding heartless, i mean it with utmost respect), watched a film called “Saviour” with dennis quaid as a FrenchForeign Legion guy protecting a pregnant woman in Bosnia, really brutal film but deffinately worth seeing. cheers for the docu mate.

dzanicjasmin:

Yeah. Just beeing in the war is a 180 degree turn on whatever you have imagined. It is nothing fun, and the only persons that might consider this fun are thoose attacking and not under any threat of beeing eradicated.

Hardzjaq1:
All the countries did there own war crimes. While the UN sat there and watched civillians being murdred peacekeepers more like watchers. U wouldnt think such a short war could be so brutal.

decaalv:
Serbs wanting to keep supremacy even in the states that separated from yugoslavia.

number1celticson:
Serbians wanted to exterminate the muslim and independence wanting people of the balkans and of course money and power.

wedgepledge:
can anyone tell me why this war started in the first place?

rhodezy92:
im english and i think U.S and UK should have sent task forces in to stop the fighting,
im glad they’ve captured him and that he will be put on trial for war crimes.