NAFAKA

The narrator in the feature debut of Bosnian director Jasmin Durakoviæ is a black American, a journalist who stays in Sarajevo during the siege because she is in love. The film takes her own experiences as the basis for describing the wartime fates suffered by her neighbours and friends. The journalist’s microcosm is peopled by winners and losers, heroes and traitors – all of them traumatized survivors united by a shared history and the search for happiness. Some see their fulfilment in material prosperity, others in true love, the family, or the homeland.