18.11.2016.
Wood from the roof of the former General Staff building planted in the Manjez park
In Belgrade Manjez park, today, the tree that has recently been growing on the ruins of the former General Staff building, one of the symbols of the 1999 bombing, has been planted. Below the birch that grew up in the concrete, which now has begun its new life in the Belgrade park, a marble plaque with the inscription "In the name of life 1999" was placed.Wood, which has grown from a destroyed building, is a kind of monument to life after the bombing in 1999, and today's action, symbolically, was attended by young men and women who were born that year, including students of the 42nd class of the Military Academy.
It is, in fact, about shooting the final sequences of the documentary film by director Bosko Savkovic, which connects the story of the life of the generation of children born during the bombing, who lived 17 years together with the wood on the General Staff building as a specific symbol of the indestructibility of life. This film is a continuation of the documentary film "After the bombs" by Savkovic, the director, and the Alternativa production company, dedicated to the trees that grew from concrete for years at that destroyed building, which was awarded numerous prizes at Cannes, Porto, Vienna and it was assigned also a "grand prix" for the best ecological film in the world in 2013.
The action was organized with the assistance of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia, the Secretariat for Environmental Protection of the City of Belgrade and the PU City Greenery.
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