Cooling Waters
Original title: Hladivode
Country: Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year of release: 2015
Runtime: 9 minutes
Colour: Colour
Language: Bosnian
Subtitles: English
Producer: Jean-Guillaume Sonnier
Camera: Adnan Branković
Sound: Alain Guillebeau
Music: Emmanuel Burnier
In a single take lasting several minutes, the film shows the village of Hladivode (whose names means “Cooling Waters”) near Sarajevo. After a slow tracking shot across an orchard, the camera zooms out to show a group of men engaged in conversation. They are filling in the bullet holes on a ruined building – a reminder of the recent events in the Balkan peninsula’s turbulent history.
