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Calling the Ghosts A Story about Rape, War and Women. A film by Karmen Jelincic, 1996, 63 min, Color. An extraordinarily powerful documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs.
An extraordinarily powerful documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs.
Feb 23, 1997 · The work of two first-time film makers, Mandy Jacobson and Karmen Jelincic, the documentary is the story of two Bosnian women, Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, who in 1992 were confined for...
Karmen Jelincic is known for Calling the Ghosts: A Story About Rape, War and Women (1996) and 60 Minutes (1968).
- Director, Producer
- Karmen Jelincic
Hoping to draw attention to the plight of female war victims, South African sociologist Mandy Jacobson and Croatian-American filmmaker Karmen Jelincic have directed a riveting new documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS, which details the Bosnian Serbs' deliberate use of mass rape as a military tactic.
Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women is a 1997 documentary film that details the experience of Nusreta Sivac and Jadranka Cigelj at the Bosnian Serb -run Omarska camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. [1]
During the war in former Yugoslavia, two Bosnian women fell victim to torture and rape in a concentration camp. After the war, Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac started a fight for the recognition of rape as a war crime.
