STORM

Hans-Christian Schmid

The Hague, the court, the events that lead to trial and beyond.

Women are the heroes in Storm.

They are the ones with the intelligence, the moral fiber, the strength to face life and fear and conquer the elements that hold people back from doing what is right. Women speak out, they cry quietly but scream when the moment becomes unbearable. it is the men who give up living(commit suicide) who suffer in this seemingly real court scene; the men who do the dirty compromises behind the scenes, the men who impede the quality of life from moving on rather than in the wrong direction for all the wrong reasons.

This is the story of what happens when rape became an official crime at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague along with deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians.

From the moment the film begins there is one almost expected incident after another. Very little variance to this compelling story and yet the viewer is frozen in the moment because it feels so true, so real, so deeply upsetting.

The acting, the timing, the slow movement add to the atmosphere of real trauma, one after another.

Storm is a pensive film that creates for the viewer the life, the fears of people who live seemingly far from us and yet they are us; our mother, our child, our family.


Linda Z
WBAI Women's Collective