WARM Academy

The open call for 2023 edition of our traditional annual WARM Academy has been published! Please, consider applying and share the word. See you in Sarajevo July 10-15 for the WARM Festival and Academy.

WARM Academy July 10-15, 2023 Open Call - warmfoundation.org WARM Foundation WARM Academy 5th edition TELLING THE STORY IN TIMES OF CRISIS OPEN CALL   Sarajevo, 10-15 July 2023 Application deadline: 25 June 2023   Dear Sir/Madam, We are delighted to inform you about the upcoming 5th edition of the WARM Academy, organized by the WARM Foundation. The WARM Aca...

Wednesday, July 6

What happens if you let an talk to people affected by conflict? Filmmaker Florent Marcie takes his robot Sota to places like the war zones of and or the uprising in Paris. He will tell us about the approach of his documentary and be open for discussions.

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Wednesday, July 6

Le Monde war correspondent Remy Ourdan will talk to about developing projects long after reporting on a story. About memory. About integrating journalism, as well as the skills of others such as artists or researchers, into a long-term different project. And about his taste for obsessions.

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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 12:45 - 14:00



With his first documentary "Trenches", Loup Bureau takes his audience to the Donbass - in a reality of war, where Russian-backed separatists are fought by Ukrainian soldiers. The film pulls the viewer into the heart of the trenches. Here, everyone has to protect themselves from death, but also try to recreate normality in the abnormal universe of the conflict.

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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 11:30 - 12:45



Reporting is a challenge in sensation-driven journalism. Maryam Ashrafi presents her take on reporting from war zones not showing how weapons speak, but how daily life continues under these circumstances. During she gives insights into her recent project and is open to discussion.

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TUESDAY JULY 5, 10:00 - 11:30



Raül Gallego Abellá presents his award-winning documentary series to . In the series, he is exposing some of the biggest issues of the present that have become part of a so-called . With his special documentary approach, he is covering e.g. , , . But, should these images really depict a new normal?

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MONDAY JULY 4, 13:00 - 14:00

Artist and photographer Velibor Božović is going to present his latest work to the : “Unfolding Elsewhere” based on interviews with members of the Bosnian diaspora displaced by the war in the 1990s

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MONDAY JULY 4, 11:30 - 12:45

Amila Buturović, Professor at the Humanities Department of York University (Canada), is going to present her research to the : Ottoman Talismanic Charts of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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MONDAY JULY 4, 10:00 - 11:30

Damir Šagolj, and director of .foundation is going to open the on Monday 4th with his talk “Emotions vs Forensics - deconstructing a photograph”. 📷

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OPEN CALL
WARM Academy
Sarajevo, July 4-8 2022 🔥

Submission deadline extended to June 26 2022

Don't miss the chance to join our friends and partners at WARM Academy for the 4th edition of their multidisciplinary educational program which will feature a series of masterclasses, workshops, and interactive panel discussions that present cutting-edge approaches, innovative techniques, and best practices being utilized across the globe to address issues related to contemporary conflicts and post-conflict transitions.

The Academy will be taking place in Sarajevo in parallel with the WARM Festival and focus on the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Afghanistan, among others, and the role of reporters, artists, and academics in times of crisis.

For more information please visit their website at http://www.warmfoundation.org/warm-academy-2022

Open Call & Applications
WARM ACADEMY 2022
4-8 July
Sarajevo

WARM Academy 2022 | Warm Foundation

We are letting you know that the program of WARM Academy for Thursday 08.07. is going to be held at Kino Meeting Point and it is open for public!
If you want to hear from Remy Ourdan, Ed Vulliamy, Jasmila Žbanić and the rest of our amazing speakers, join us there!

Full timetable and program is available at our website! http://www.warmfoundation.org/warm-academy-2021

There have been a couple of last minute changes in our program, which you can check out on the following links:

WARM Festival
http://www.warmfoundation.org/warm-festival-2021

https://www.facebook.com/events/842699459959280

WARM Academy
http://www.warmfoundation.org/warm-academy-2021

https://www.facebook.com/events/1241671149585213

Looking forward to seeing you!

Due to technical difficulties we are unfortunately unable to stream all of the lectures from today, but we will be live tomorrow!
All of our lectures are being recorded and we will post them on our page!

Our first lecture will start 15 minutes later due to technical difficulties!
We'll see you at 10:15!

For all of you who are not with us in Sarajevo this year, all of our lectures will be live on FB on the WARM Academy and WARM Festival pages and available to watch without registration starting from Monday morning at 10am!

Don't be late!

We're wraping up this years program with graphic designer Bojan Hadžihalilović who will talk about magazine front pages, and a team of amazing young people presenting KUMA International and Mahala magazine!

Let's get started!

For the 1st afternoon session we'll listen to Haleh Anvari, artist and arts and culture journalist with a special interest in photography based in Tehran.

The Talking Walls of Tehran, originally delivered to the Society of Iranian studies in Vienna in August 2016 deciphers the changes in the ideology of the state through the changes in the style of murals in Tehran through a collection of photographs taken by Anvari over several years living and watching the city’s walls.

Our next speaker is Džemil Hodžić, a Video Editor at Al Jazeera English, and founder of the ‘Sniper Alley Project’. Through this project Džemil aims to establish a database to record and archive the life of his brother, who was killed by a sniper during the Sarajevo Siege, as well as live experiences of thousands of children of Sarajevo during the war. Collecting photos of the Siege and preserving the memory of survival through the eyes of the children living under the oppressive conditions of war.

Friday, July 9th, 2nd morning session!

Last day of the WARM Academy starts with Pulitzer prize winning photographer Soe Zeya Tun, who will be talking about Visual history of Myanmar uprisings, a personal view.

You can join us at Soes session via stream on our fb page https://www.facebook.com/warmacademy/

Our last session of the day is by author Kenneth Morrison and photographer Paul Lowe who will be talking about their book "Reporting the siege of Sarajevo". This session is also going to be held @ Kino Meeting point and open for public!

We'll see you there!

We are delighted to announce this trio of multi-award winners: film director Jasmila Žbanić, anti-war reporter Ed Vulliamy and photographer and WARM Foundation director Damir Šagolj. Their session "Perception of genocide in Srebrenica in popular culture" will be held in partnership with Bookstan @ Kino Meeting Point, and it is open for public!

We'll be waiting for you, Thursday, July 8th!

Next on we have Béla Tarr, award-winning Hungarian filmmaker, whose work speaks for itself. Bélas lecture is inspired by his movie "Werckmeister Harmonies" and violence and totalitarianism in the art 20 years after.

Join us Thursday afternoon to hear more from Béla!