Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter Sara in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, a community still marked by the civil war of the 1990s: unemployment, corruption and sluggish reconstruction are as omnipresent as the scars that the years under siege left on the bodies and souls of the city's inhabitants. When Sara begins to ask questions about her father, the previously loving relationship between mother and daughter is put to a traumatic test. Jasmila Žbanić treats the subject of mass rape during the Bosnian War, painfully illustrating the complex consequences of this monstrous military strategy. Žbanić received the Golden Bear at the 2006 Berlinale for ESMA'S SECRET.
Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter Sara in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, a community still marked by the civil war of the 1990s: unemployment, corruption and sluggish reconstruction are as omnipresent as the scars that the years under siege left on the bodies and souls of the city's inhabitants. When Sara begins to ask questions about her father, the previously loving relationship between mother and daughter is put to a traumatic test. Jasmila Žbanić treats the subject of mass rape during the Bosnian War, painfully illustrating the complex consequences of this monstrous military strategy. Žbanić received the Golden Bear at the 2006 Berlinale for ESMA'S SECRET.
