Die Brücke von Mostar

In the organizer's words:

Play by Igor Memic
Translated from the English by John Birke

"Humanity must from time to time change the shoulder on which it carries the burden that is called life."
Ivo Andrić

1988 in Mostar, Yugoslavia. It's summer, the city is electrified. Everyone is talking about the annual skydiving competition on the old bridge. Mina and her friends Leila and Sasha sit on the riverbank and watch the jumpers. Among them is Mili, a young man from Dalmatia. He knows neither the city nor the dangerous river current, but dares to jump anyway. His botched jump gives Mili a swollen face, but also a date with Mina. The two become a couple, the four friends inseparable. Their origins and religious differences don't matter, as they have music to unite them. They retain their light-heartedness until the spring of 1992: where Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, both Muslim and Catholic, sat together in the street cafés in their summer, there is now coldness, mistrust and hostility between them. Mili, Mina, Sasha and Leila seem unaffected - until the first shots are fired at the mosque.

Against the backdrop of the Bosnian war, Igor Memic tells the story of a group of friends who defy ideologies, put trust above faith, their family of choice above origin - and remain radically hopeful.