
The Srebrenica Tape: What Happened in Srebrenica?
Between 1993 and 1995, an amateur filmmaker named Sejfo recorded everyday life inside the besieged Bosnian-Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, intending the tapes as a message to his young daughter Alisa, whom he and her mother had sent to safety with grandparents in Ljubovija, Serbia. Sejfo stayed behind and was among the more than 8,000 Muslim men murdered when Ratko Mladić's forces took the town in July 1995. Almost thirty years later, Alisa returns to Bosnia with her father's footage, tracking down relatives, friends, and survivors who appear on the tape to piece together what her father saw and felt in the enclave's final months: rumors of safety, dwindling food, and the slow realization that no one was coming to help. The film intercuts Sejfo's grainy home-video footage with Alisa's present-day search and interviews with those who lived through the siege and its aftermath. It is a personal account of the genocide built from one family's private record rather than official history.