BALKAN DOX
Ceasefire
Prekid vatre
Director
Jakob Krese
Producers
Annika Mayer
Ivana Naceva
Jakob Krese
Cinematographer
Jakob Krese
Editor
Annika Mayer
Sound
Gaston Ibarroule
Contact
Andy Norton
Raina Films
[email protected]
2025
Germany, Italy, Slovenia
31 min
Color
Hazira, a survivor of the Srebrenica massacre, lives in limbo at the Ježevac camp near Tuzla—far from her former mountain village, now in Serbia. With dark humor and quiet resilience, she endures the monotony of displacement. As Bosnia marks 30 years since the genocide, Ceasefire reflects on survival, memory, and the cost of unresolved history, asking: how long can someone live in the shadow of a war that never truly ended?
Directors' Biography
Jakob Krese grew up between Yugoslavia and Germany, the grandson of both a partisan and a Nazi judge. His films explore tensions between the individual and the collective, memory and resistance. He studied film in Berlin, Havana, and Sarajevo, and works across Trieste, Ljubljana, and Berlin.
Other films in BALKAN DOX
A Strange Colour of Dream
Antigona
Blue, Revolution and VHS Tapes
Bright Future
Greetings from the Secretariat
Human Fiction
I Have Never Been on An Airplane
Inventory
Lavender
Merging Bodies
Possibility of Paradise
Soil and Wings
Stars of Roma Termini
The Divided City of Mitrovica
The Mountain Won't Move
The Track
