The association "Women Victims of War" from Bosnia and Herzegovina have sent a note to the UN asking Angelina Jolie not to be a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, because she has "no credibility". UN replied to this message with: "We are completely satisfied with Jolie".
So what is this all about?
Angelina Jolie during her visit of Bosnia
Controversy over the first film by Angelina Jolie as a director, is still present in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The filming have caused unsatisfactory among the victims of the war in BiH, which caused problems and cancellation of several movies scenes.The Minister of Culture of the Federation BiH Gavrilo Grahovac made such a decision after the request of the members of the association of victims who found this movie insulting to women victims of raping in BiH. After Jolie forwarded the original script to the Ministry, in which there were no scenes that can cause problems, permission to record was renewed, but representatives of the victims of war are not satisfied because Angelina Jolie did not met with them to solve the differences.
The new movies of Angelina Jolie posses a painful and unusual story
Jolie's film speaks about the relationship between the victim and the rapist."The movies about the suffering of the people in BiH, through artistic catharsis, returns the focus to the unfinished sufferings of women - victims of war, which often remain forgotten in their grief and the margins of current social developments. The question of Angelina Jolie's film is something that is out of her job. It is not something that have something to do with her responsibilities around the UN", said Deutsche Welle UN spokesman in New York, Farhan Haq. Of course, it is about using artistic freedom, to reach a new, non-institutional dimension of the victims.
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| Angelina Jolie filming her directorial-debut |
The famous Italian Film "Night porter ", recorded in 1974, which was also directed by woman - Liliana Kavani, with Charlotte Rempling in main role, spokes of love dramas on raped women. In this film story, Lucia, after the horrors of Nazi death camps, a few years later, in Vienna, met her torturer Max. He is a former EsEs officer, acted by Dirk Bogard. From all of that that was created unforgettable film story, which after all, with taste of controversy, outlived the critics.
But like any piece of art, the real life is only a basis for building the story and everything else is the result of creative imagination: in this case - a fiction film. In this context we should mention the film "Grbavica," by the director from Sarajevo, Jasmila Zbanic which won the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 2006.
Therefore, the UN will not be dealing with the film of Angelina Jolie, in a way that some may want to, no matter the fact that the famous Angelina Jolie is their goodwill ambassador. A spokesman for UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq, Deutsche Welle, said that this issue did not found place on the agenda of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:
Angelina Jolie is only doing her job "Angelina Jolie is a Goodwill Ambassador of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), she traveled around the world to do important job in the name of UNHCR and emphasized what the refugees needs. Now, the High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres should decide whether Jolie will continue her work, with the status of goodwill ambassador. But it is certain that the UNHCR is very pleased with her work so far, "said UN spokesman in New York.
Abstaining from any aesthetic or moral commentary, Farhan Haq, highlights the clear difference between Angelina Jolie as filmmaker, and an honorary ambassador to the UN:"The question for the films of Angelina Jolie's something that's out of her job as goodwill ambasador. It is not something that has to do with Jolie's responsibility to the UN. "
But when it comes to extra emotions related to the victims of war, specifically-the prolonged suffering of the women raped during the war in BiH, a spokesman for the World organization in New York reminds us that many perpetrators of war crimes, including the raping in the war in BiH, has been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Hague.