‘The DNA of Dignity’ Director on Search for 11,000 People Who Disappeared During Balkans War
variety.comTara Karajica In Jan Baumgartner’s first feature, “The DNA of Dignity,” which plays in the Newcomers Competition at the Thessaloniki Intl.
Documentary Festival, the Swiss nurse-turned-filmmaker follows a team of forensic scientists who, in the anonymity of mass graves, are looking for the last usable traces of human DNA in the hope of giving the victims their names and dignity back decades after the Balkans War, which resulted in the disappearance of thousands of people.
Survivors and those left behind pin their hopes on excavations and scientific work. “Time is running out. Many people in the Balkans are still missing their loved ones.
I really wanted to make this film so that people start talking about this topic and maybe have a conversation with their families and ask their fathers if they know if there’s still somewhere where people could be because it’s very hard to find those victims now.” There are still 11,000 people missing in the Balkan region.
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