Grbavica (film)
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| Directed by | Jasmila Žbanić |
| Produced by | Tanja Aćimović |
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Jasmila Žbanić Barbara Albert |
| Starring |
Mirjana Karanović Luna Mijović |
| Distributed by | Dogwoof Pictures |
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107 min. |
| Language | Bosnian |
Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Chetniks' troops during the war. It was released in the United Kingdom as Esma's Secret: Grbavica, and in USA as Grbavica: Land of My Dreams.
The film shows, through the eyes of the main character Esma, her teenage daughter Sara, and others, how everyday life is still being shaped by the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The film was an international co-production between companies from Bosnia, Austria, Croatia and Germany; it received funding from the German television companies ZDF and Arte. Grbavica received an enthusiastic response from critics, earning a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that aggregates professional critiques.
It won the Golden Bear at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival and it was Bosnia & Herzegovina's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards.
The title refers to a neighbourhood of Sarajevo Esma lives in which was one of the most traumatized neighborhoods in the city.
According to the director,
In the film, the Serb perpetrators of sex acts are referred to as Chetniks, a derogatory term which some of the population of Sarajevo (mostly Bosnian Muslims and Croats) used for the besieging Serb troops. The director claims that she avoided the word Serb on purpose in order to avoid imposing collective guilt on an entire ethnic group.
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