As part of our successful 'Presents' strand, multi award-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski will introduce his 1992 documentary Serbian Epics and take part in a post screening Q&A. In this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting, using a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary but on the power of images. He got complete access to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was only captured in July 2008 and now stands accused of war crimes.

Pawlikowski records Karadzic's personal life, his home, his daughter's wedding and his controversial views on ethnic cleansing. Through Pawlikowski's interview we come to understand how Serbian tradition and mystique were distorted into a rallying cry for war.

This enquiry into the ethnocentric view of the world, is an intimate and shocking study of myth making and nation-building gone wrong.

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