The documentary takes listeners along the so-called Balkan route, in the footsteps of those who died trying to find a safe place in the European Union. In the 1990s, these were people fleeing the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Today, they are non-European refugees. An invisible network of people has gathered around their deaths, doing everything that institutions should. Thus, in cemeteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, we meet activists who are searching for the missing and dead, trying to identify them, pass on information to their families and mark their resting place with dignity. We also meet the families of the deceased, who are grieving thousands of kilometers away and blame the border regime of "Fortress Europe".
Croatia 2024, '43
DIRECTOR: Barbara Matejčić
MONTAGE: Srđan Nogić, Miroslav Šeb
PRODUCERS: Nikica Klobučar
Barbara Matejčić
Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Barbara Matejčić is an award-winning freelance journalist, non-fiction writer, editor and audio producer focused on social affairs and human rights in the Balkan region. She won several awards, including European Press Prize (2024, finalist in 2021) and Investigative Journalism for Europe award (IJ4EU, 2024). The Croatian Journalists’ Association awarded her as the best print journalist in Croatia for her features about post-war societies in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She writes for Croatian and international media and produces radio documentaries for Croatian Radiotelevision. Barbara collaborates with activists, artists, and scholars in various projects. She lectures at the Journalism Studies at the VERN' University in Zagreb.
