To step inside Sarajevo’s Apollo Cinema 30 years ago, you first had to find the door. The streets of the Bosnian capital were pitch black. Power cuts brought on by a crippling siege, which started in ...

This year’s Sarajevo Film Festival commemorates the foundation of the Apollo wartime cinema, which screened movies during the 1992-95 siege, attracting film fans who braved sniper fire to attend and ...

In 1993 Sarajevo was under the siege. Against all odds a small group of enthusiasts managed to open the First War Cinema in Sarajevo. For them this cinema was a distinction between surviving and being ...

To step inside Sarajevo’s Apollo Cinema 30 years ago, you first had to find the door. “To go into the Obala war cinema, where there was light from a generator, felt like stepping into a concrete, ...

To step inside Sarajevo’s Apollo Cinema 30 years ago, you first had to find the door. The streets of the Bosnian capital were pitch black. Power cuts brought on by a crippling siege, which started in ...