Calling the Ghosts

Two adult friends make each other a promise: If they survive the hell of Bosnia, they will tell the world of the atrocities they have seen and suffered. Both women were raped in a camp in northwest Bosnia, and South African sociologist Mandy Jacobson and human rights lawyer Karmen Jelinčić focus on their stories in this documentary. What started out as a struggle against the reticence of women in the camps to tell their stories, became a search for justice in the world outside Bosnia. The film adds urgency to demands that the perpetrators not go unpunished, and that rape be acknowledged as a war crime. (One World)