🔜 More screenings to be added soon.
📍 Bridge Film Festival
Special screening
My Father’s Diaries will be presented within the 13th edition of the Bridge Film Festival, as part of the Coming of Age program.
Director Ado Hasanović will attend the festival and take part in talks and discussions with the audience.
The collaboration may also include a selection of films from the Silver Frame Film Festival.
📍 Pistoia DocuFilm Festival
Public screening
Public screening of My Father’s Diaries, followed by a conversation with director Ado Hasanović, who will be present in person.
Organized within the framework of the Pistoia DocuFilm Festival.
📍 Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema
Special screening
My Father’s Diaries will be presented at the 62nd edition of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro.
Director Ado Hasanović will attend the festival as a member of the International Jury of the Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Competition.
The screening will take place in the context of the festival program, alongside the director’s participation in jury activities and public events.
📍 Organized by TBC
Public screening
Public screening of My Father’s Diaries.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Ado Hasanović, who will be present in person.
📍 BiH Diaspora Conference (BiHDC)
Special screening
Screening of My Father’s Diaries within the BiH Diaspora Conference 2026.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Ado Hasanović, who will also take part in the conference as a keynote speaker.
May 29, 2026 – Rome, Italy
📍 Holiday House Santa Maria alle Fornaci
Special screening
Screening of My Father’s Diaries organized in collaboration with James Madison University.
The event will include a conversation with director Ado Hasanović, who will be present in person, in dialogue with students and invited guests.
📍 Cultural and Information Center – Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public screening
Public screening of My Father’s Diaries followed by a conversation with director Ado Hasanović, who will be present in person.
📍 Italian Cultural Institute
Private screening
Private screening of My Father’s Diaries for diplomats and international staff.
📍 Mozaik – Festival dell’Est
Public screening
Presentation of My Father’s Diaries within the 2nd edition of Mozaik – Festival dell’Est.
Selected excerpts from the film and conversation with director Ado Hasanović, who will be present in person.
📍 Il Cinemino / Nuovo Armenia
Public screening
Screening of My Father’s Diaries within the Urbinary project, promoted by researchers from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. The event is part of a curated film and documentary series exploring urban narratives, memory, and social transformation.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Ado Hasanović, who will be present in person, in dialogue with the organizers and audience.Â
Organized in collaboration with Il Cinemino and Nuovo Armenia.
📍 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Private screening
Private academic screening of My Father’s Diaries for first-year students within the Contemporary History course, curated by Prof. Maria Chiara Rioli.
The screening is part of an educational program exploring memory, war, and contemporary history.
📍 Festival de films d’auteur de Val-Morin (FFAVM)
My Father’s Diaries has been selected for the 2026 edition of the FFAVM, an international art-house film festival presenting a curated selection of 15 films. The film will be presented in competition for the Grand Prix Orel (Best Film) and Best Screenplay awards, highlighting its strong authorial vision.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ado Hasanović.
📍 Bertha DocHouse
My Father’s Diaries will screen five times at Bertha DocHouse, starting April 18.
Public screenings
Sat 18 Apr – 18:00
Sun 19 Apr – 18:00
Tue 21 Apr – 14:00
Wed 22 Apr – 20:00
Thu 23 Apr – 16:00
“A tangible visual interpretation of the ideas of memory that cannot be erased.” — Screen International
The film follows Bekir Hasanović, who in 1993 began filming daily life in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war. Nearly thirty years later, his son, director Ado Hasanović, revisits these VHS recordings alongside his father’s diaries, creating a deeply personal portrait of a family and a nation marked by war and memory.
📍 Cinema Troisi
Back at Cinema Troisi after the March 25 screening — three additional screenings.
Public screenings
Thu 16 — 11:00
Fri 17 — 15:00
Sat 18 — 20:00
📍 Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave
6:30 PM – Public screening
An intense autobiographical documentary intertwining personal memory and collective history, 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre: a special screening at the MedFilm Festival in New York with My Father’s Diaries.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ado Hasanović.
The film previously had its Italian premiere at the 30th edition of the MedFilm Festival in Rome, where it received an award. This screening is part of the first MedFilm Festival edition in New York.
March 25, 2026 – Rome, Italy
📍 Cinema Troisi – Rome
19:15 – Public screening
Special Screening
Screening of My Father’s Diaries (I Diari di Mio Padre) by Ado Hasanović.
In attendance:
Ado Hasanović (director)
Iosonouncane (composer)
Screenwriters: Anna Zagaglia & Armando Maria Trotta
Editors: Esmeralda Calabria, Desideria Rayner, Elisabetta Abrami
Producer: Antonio Badalamenti; Assistant Director: Chiara CruciattiÂ
Several members of the creative team will be present for a conversation with the audience following the screening.
March 7, 2026 – Perugia, Italy
📍 Cinema Méliès – Perugia
21:00 – Public screening
Screening of My Father’s Diaries (I Diari di Mio Padre),
a documentary by Ado Hasanović.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director. Moderator: Paolo Pignocchi
The film reconstructs, through the original VHS footage and diaries of the director’s father, everyday life in Srebrenica during the war and the silence that followed.
Public screening at Cinema Méliès, Perugia.
📍 Organized by “Perché no? Volontari in Bosnia”
Public screening
Public screening of My Father’s Diaries within a cycle of educational and dialogue-based events curated by Perché no? Volontari in Bosnia, an association active since 2004 in fostering solidarity, cooperation, and post-war understanding in the Balkans.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Ado Hasanović.
March 4, 2026 – Rome, Italy
📍 Aula Magna
Department of Communication and Social Research
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Salaria 113
15:30–19:30 – Lecture & Screening Event
Screening of My Father’s Diaries (I Diari di Mio Padre) by Ado Hasanović,
followed by a conversation with the director.
The event is part of the course Entertainment and Television Studies,
held by Prof. Mihaela Gavrila.
March 3, 2026 – Cesena, Italy
📍 Cinema Eliseo – Cesena
10:30 – Educational screening
Educational screening of My Father’s Diaries (I Diari di Mio Padre) by Ado Hasanović for senior classes of Liceo Classico “Vincenzo Monti” of Cesena.Â
Followed by a conversation with the director.
March 2, 2026 – Cesena, Italy
📍 Cinema Eliseo – Cesena
20:30 – Public screening
Screening of My Father’s Diaries (I Diari di Mio Padre) by Ado Hasanović.
The film tells, through the original images filmed by the director’s father, everyday life during the siege of Srebrenica in July 1995.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director.
Moderator: Prof. Stefano Maldini.
Event organized by Associazione Benigno Zaccagnini and Centro Pace Cesena, in collaboration with Liceo Statale Vincenzo Monti and with the patronage of the Comune di Cesena.
May 21, 2026 – Milan, Italy
📍 Il Cinemino & Nuovo Armenia – Milan
Screening of My Father’s Diaries (I Diari di Mio Padre) by Ado Hasanović,
as part of the Urbinary film series, promoted by young researchers of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano.
The event is organized in collaboration with Il Cinemino and Nuovo Armenia.
The screening will be followed by a post-screening discussion in English,
with the director Ado HasanovićÂ