CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO
by Aida Begic
synopsis
Rahima (23) and Nermin (14) are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, including in the way it treats children of the people who were killed fighting for the freedom of their city. After crime-prone adolescent years, Rahima has found comfort in Islam and she hopes her brother will follow in her footsteps. Their life of bare survival becomes even more difficult after Nedim gets into a fistfight at school with the son of a local strongman. This incident triggers a chain of events leading Rahima to the discovery that her young brother leads a double life…
| international title: | Children of Sarajevo |
| original title: | Djeca |
| country: | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey |
| sales agent: | Pyramide International |
| year: | 2012 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Aida Begic |
| film run: | 90' |
| release date: | IT 03/01/2013, FR 20/03/2013, DE 05/09/2013 |
| screenplay: | Aida Begic |
| cast: | Marija Pikic, Ismir Gagula, Bojan Navojec, Sanela Pepeljak, Vedran Djekic, Mario Knezovic |
| cinematography by: | Erol Zubcevic |
| film editing: | Miralem Zubcevic |
| art director: | Sanda Popovac |
| costumes designer: | Sanja Dzeba |
| producer: | Aida Begic, François D'Artemare, Benny Drechsel, Semih Kaplanoglu |
| production: | Film Hause Sarajevo, Rohfilm GmbH, Les Films de l'Après-midi, Kaplan Film/Istanbul |
| backing: | Eurimages |
| distributor: | Pyramide Distribution, KitchenFilm |
