Renowned documentarian Jean-Gabriel Périot bases his newest ‘Facing Darkness’ on the raw video footage shot over the course of a few years, starting with April 1992, by four Bosnian filmmakers. That very same month sees the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo. What we see on the screen are images recorded in the heat of the conflict – images that oscillate between samples of journalism under imminent danger and documentary-like fragments exhibiting an incipient analytical stance. In fact, these are vivid, fresh testimonies, impossible to "take in" without realising the horror that such an atrocity was possible. Thirty years later, Périot finds these people, hands them an iPad, and asks them to give us some context. The times have changed, yet the emotion on meeting these long-buried images remains as strong. With the aid of this very simple device, the film traces the obstructed history of a space, all thanks to those who dared to etch it in time, with an eye always open to the possibilities of the future. (Victor Morozov)