Libera Me

LIBERA ME – an audiovisual performance by Maja Zećo and Roman Stolyar

The Goethe-Institut Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo Fest 2025 present the audiovisual performance “LIBERA ME“ by Maja Zećo and Roman Stolyar, which, through powerful soundscapes and video art, brings to life the stories of witnesses of the two most recent European wars. Based on interviews with Bosnians and Herzegovinians, Ukrainians, and Russians, this documentary anti-war project seeks ways of liberation from fear, hatred, and distrust that military conflicts instill and that divide nations.

“LIBERA ME“ is an appeal for peaceful coexistence of people of different ethnic and geographical backgrounds in a global world where all borders can be overcome. Bosnian-German actress Maja Zećo and Russian pianist and composer Roman Stolyar met in 2021 at the workshop “A Beloved Enemy“ at the National Theatre in Zenica and have been collaborating ever since. Today they both live in Berlin and are themselves witnesses of the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Ukraine. Their first joint project was the short film “Postcards from Mostar“. Drawing on their own stories of displacement, experiences, and traumas, from 2022 to 2024 they conducted interviews with witnesses of both wars, out of which the audiovisual performance “LIBERA ME“ was created.

Performance
Duration: 55 minutes
Concept, direction: Maja Zećo, Roman Stolyar
Narration, video: Maja Zećo
Music and editing: Roman Stolyar
Saxophone: Camila Nebbia
Vocals: Beatriz Gijón Gijón, Tisa Neža Herlec
Narrators: Grirori Kofman, Maja Zećo, Roman Stolyar
Witnesses: Alyona, Joha, Svetlana, Asmir, Tatiana, Oleg, Vedrana, Jasmina, Amila,
Irma, Julia, Maja

The performance is presented in B/C/S, Ukrainian, and Russian with English
subtitles. Tickets are available at karter.ba.

After the performance, a discussion with the artists will take place.

In Collaboration with the Goethe-Institut in BiH.