Washington, DC: An Oscar-qualified short film focusing on the lives of two Bosnians during and after the breakup of Yugoslavia will be shown tomorrow (Sept. 18) at the Intercultural Center at Georgetown University.

The film, titled “In the Name of the Son: Using Art to Rebuild After War,” focuses on Tarik, a Bosniak who escapes execution and immigrates to the United States, and Pavle, a Serb who spares Tarik’s life in Bosnia and later shows up on his doorstep asking for a favor.

The film was written and directed by Harun Mehmedinovic, an American Film Institute student who survived the siege of Sarajevo and immigrated to the United States. Mr Mehmedinovic and actor Jack Dimich will appear at the film screening and be available for questions afterward.

The event will be held from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the 7th floor conference room at the Intercultural Center at Georgetown.

The Advocacy Project (AP) worked with the Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH) and the Georgetown Institute for the Study of International Migration and the to put together the film screening. Elmina Kulasic, Executive Director of the Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia & Herzegovina and AP Executive Director Iain Guest will speak at the event.

The event will also feature the Srebrenica Memorial Quilt, which was made by weavers from AP partner organization Bosnian Family (BOSFAM) to commemorate victims of the 1995 massacre. BOSFAM was founded in 1994 during the Bosnian conflict as a haven for refugee women, and many of the weavers lost family members at Srebrenica. Like Mr. Mehmedinovic, the quilt weavers use art as a means to both remember the conflict and promote reconciliation between women of various ethnicities in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

If you miss Thursday’s event, the film will be screened again at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19 at the Longworth Building near the U.S. Capitol. That event is being sponsored by the BAACBH and the Heinrich Boll Foundation.