The Love of Books
War-torn Bosnia in 1992. The city of Sarajevo is besieged and burning. Great art treasures are lost in the flames and only one library remains.
Amid bullets and bombs, a group of book-lovers risk their lives to rescue 10,067 irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts.
At stake is a nation’s history.
Using first hand testimony and dramatisation, this film is a gripping tale of wartime Sarajevo, and also of the importance of books to the identity of a people.
- Winner Special Award Al-Jazeera International Documentary Festival
- Winner Audience Award Sarajevo Film Festival
- Winner Documentary Official Selection: Beirut Film Festival
Related News
Press Reviews
...grippingly told through interviews, original footage and dramatised scenes
...remarkable tale...
A powerful and elegantly filmed tribute to the protection of knowledge during the horrors of war
...recalling with heartbreaking plausibility the fear and denial that engulf civilised people when their world is consumed by lunacy.
inspiring stuff...
- 1 of 2
- ››
