1395 days without red

TIRANA, May 17 – 1395 days without Red, a movie by Albania born, Paris-based artist Anri Sala will also feature in Tirana this weekend after making its premiere at the Manchester International Festival in 2011. The movie focusing on the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s will be screened at the Millennium Cinema Tirana on May 20 at 20.15.
Critics say Sala’s most impressive work to date might be his 44-minute film entitled 1395 Days Without Red, which was made in collaboration with ˥jla Kamerić. The Siege of Sarajevo, which began in 1992 and ended in 1996, was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare, during which Serbian forces embarked on a campaign of incessant violence against the city’s inhabitants. Every school, home, and street crossing was under threat of attack. Throughout this period, residents were advised to not wear bright colors, specifically red, for fear of the snipers lurking in the surrounding hills. To draw the slightest attention to oneself was to become an easy target. Kamerić and Anri Sala’s film revisits this history, not through narrative, dialogue, or documentary, but only through music and sound.
The film charts the path of a young woman, played by Spanish actress Maribel Verd