SDA Sarajevo Canton: SFF should not have served Belgrade's propaganda!

(Patria) - By promoting the Serbian film by Radoš Bajić “Heroes of Halijard”, which glorifies Draža Mihailović's Chetnik movement, the reputation of the most important regional and European-valued Sarajevo Film Festival has been damaged. The reputable platform for promoting BiH film, created as a symbol of cultural resistance to the siege of Sarajevo and aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, should not have served revisionist propaganda from Belgrade, according to the reaction of the SDA Sarajevo Canton Committee.

"The Government of Sarajevo Canton is the sponsor of the Sarajevo Film Festival, and they should be the first to determine the responsibility of the organizers, take appropriate action, and calm the public. However, a government that organizes disgusting performances in which a naked man harasses female citizens, which promotes Serbian trash music in the Historical Museum, ignores the commemoration of May 2nd, and calls the defenders of Sarajevo 'peasants', has no credibility to lecture anyone.

It is important to recall the recent statement by the Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, that he 'cannot allow Sarajevo to have a better festival than Belgrade'. It is clear that mutual accusations and political bickering within the ruling Trio are no obstacle for Vučić's regime to try to seriously damage the reputation of SFF, and for the city of Sarajevo, according to Edin Forto's prediction, to try to make it 'the center of nothing'", the reaction stated.