A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
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★★★★★
Highly recommended.
Sarajevo is a raped city, Bosnia is a raped country and the culprit, although known, has never been convicted. How a person, and a nation, finds a strength to overcome the injustice? Very difficult, sometimes impossible.
I hoped and praye...
★★★★★
This Movie is excellent, and it's starting in cinemas around Bosnia and Herzegovina March 1st.
GRBAVICA is a story about contemporary Sarajevo
Single mother Esma wants to grant her twelve-year-old daughter Sara's wish to participate in a school trip. A cert...
★★★★★
This little film drew me in with it's central characters, a Mother who was a war survivor,who had been in the P.O.W. camps in Sarajevo (played to perfection by Mirjana Karanovic), and her daily struggle to keep her head above water, with a thankless job in a c...
★★★★★
This is Jasmila Zbanic's debut movie. It is about the painful aftermath of the Bosnian war and focuses on a Bosnian woman and her 12 years old daughter Sara. They are living in Grbavica, a quarter of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. Esma needs money to pay a scho...
★★★★★
I was fortunate enough to see this wonderful film at the Melbourne International Film Festival where it seemed to receive a positive reaction from the large audience.
Jasmila Zbanic has written and directed a film that is powerful enough to speak to a global...
