couch me! / Cultural Forum Sarajevo

Short film by Aldina M. Topčagić

The dancer and choreographer Aldina M. Topčagić, who lives in Austria, participated in the Women’s Festival Tuzla in June at the invitation of the Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo. This festival has been inviting special women from business, art, science, etc. for 5 years to exchange experiences. Her award-winning short film couch me! was shown for the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this film she can be seen with the book “The Cat I Never Named” by Prof. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess (a story of escape from Bosnia-Herzegovina from the perspective of a teenager). Together with the festival director and artist Edina Selesković and the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo, Sabine Kernthaller, they discussed issues of identity, homeland and integration.