Jasmila Zbanic's debut movie focuses on the Balkan War's painful aftermath on a Bosnian woman and her daughter. Esma is living with her 12-year-old daughter Sara in Grbavica, a quarter of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. When Sara wants to participate in a school trip, Esma tries to find a way to pay the full price, although a certificate proving Sara's father is a war hero would allow her a...

The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations... more

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists... more