For the Hollywood Reporter, Eliza Whitfield on 19 August 2023 gives the result of the Sarajevo Film Festival 2023:
……Macedonian filmmaker Kumjana Novakova won the human rights award, given to the film in the Sarajevo competition that best addresses human rights issues, for her documentary Silence of Reason, which used the archives of the international court of human rights in the Hague to explore how violence against women was used as a weapon of war in the Bosnian War.
Nvoakova took part in the public discussion held in Sarajevo on Thursday into the artistic and media representations of violence against women. The discussion was held on a day of national mourning across Bosnia and Herzegovina called in response to a shocking triple-murder suicide in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac last week, in which a man live-streamed the murder of his ex-wife. The Sarajevo festival suspended its regular programming, with the public discussion as the only event of the day.
As part of the festival, a public discussion was held in Sarajevo to examine the artistic and media representations of violence against women. The discussion took place on a day of national mourning in response to a tragic triple-murder suicide in the town of Gradacac. The Sarajevo festival suspended its regular programming to prioritize this important conversation.
