WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN

Followed by a Q&A with Aida Šehović

Length: 89 min
Film Category: Feature Documentary
North American Premiere

Cast & Credits

Director: Mirko Pincelli
Editing: Mirko Pincelli
Producer(s): Pinch Media Film Ltd and ŠTO TE NEMA, Inc.
Co-Producer: The Post-Conflict Research Center
In Partnership With: The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Executive Producers: Dženeta Karabegović, Ilene H. Lang, Edina Škaljić, Winnie Wong
Cinematography: Daniel Salter and Mirko Pincelli
Music: Darko Spasovski and Igor Vasilev, Chris Parrello and Karlie Bruce
Sound: Andrea Maffi
Sound Editing and Mixing: Darko Spasovski

Cast: Ahmet Begović, Mirza Mešić, Hajra Ćatić, Aida Šehović, Nura Begović, Srebrenka Mršić, Enver Šehović, Vedad Brkanić, Dragana Vučetić, Hamed Suljić
 

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Film Synopsis:

Thirty years after genocide – the first in Europe since World War II – survivors in Bosnia and Herzegovina still search for their loved ones. Where Have You Been traces the homecoming of the Bosnian-American artist Aida Šehović and her participatory, nomadic monument to the Srebrenica Genocide. With the monument coming to its final resting place after traveling the world for 15 years, those who remain gather at the site of the atrocities to fill thousands of small, ceramic coffee cups in memory of the victims. As they collectively mourn, painful questions endure. What does "never again" mean in a world where perpetrators live with impunity? Can art and empathy help fill the void left by immeasurable loss and trauma?
 

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Director's Biography

Mirko Pincelli is an award-winning fiction and documentary director, cinematographer with a strong photojournalism experience in post-conflict areas. He graduated with a BA Honours in Photography from the University of East London, then directed and shot dozens of commercials, music videos and web-series. In 2010 he set up the production company Pinch Media Film Ltd. Mirko shot and directed an extensive number of documentaries for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross across Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, the Middle East and the Balkans. In the last few years, Mirko has been able to focus on feature length character-driven documentaries and fiction films, directing and shooting seven feature documentaries, one documentary series and his feature film debut.

Guest Biography
Aida Šehović (born 1977 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is an artist whose work creates spaces for collective acts of healing, mourning, and resistance. Forced to flee her homeland in 1992, she lived as a refugee in Turkey and Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1997. In 2021, she returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and now lives and works in Sarajevo. She is the founder and caretaker of ŠTO TE NEMA, a participatory monument and nonprofit dedicated to imagining a world without genocide. First realized in 2006, the project traveled to 15 cities worldwide and has since evolved into a transnational initiative working with survivors, artists, and activists.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Kunsthaus Dresden, the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Queens Museum, and the 58th Venice Biennale. She has received support from Culture Push, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, among others. Where Have You Been, a feature-length documentary about her work directed by Mirko Pincelli, premiered at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2024.