My Father's Diaries
It is 1993 when Bekir Hasanović exchanges a gold coin for the camera he will use to film everyday life in Srebrenica during the days of the war. The images he records with his improvised crew, called Dzon, Ben & Boys, give life to the unexpected portrait of a population lost, but able to maintain a proud connection with reality without giving up its typical humor. Ado, Bekir's son, starts from these images and from the pages of the diaries kept by his father to reconstruct, together with his mother Fatima, the image of his father and finally be able to know how he survived the Death March and the Srebrenica genocide.
Ado Hasanović is a Bosnian-Italian film director based in Rome. He graduated from the Sarajevo Film Academy as a director in 2013 and furthered his education at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, specializing as a director. In 2017, he completed a Master's in Dramaturgy as a guest student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. His short films have received worldwide festival selections and won numerous international awards. Ado is also the creator of "Cortovisioni - How to Make a Short Film," a workshop format where he imparts knowledge on creating a short film from the initial idea to post-production. He recently completed his debut documentary, My Father's Diaries (2024), produced by Palomar (Italy) & Mediawan (France).
