Children of Sarajevo

Djeca

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey

2012

90 Min

Color

1.85:1

Bosnian

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Aida Begić, Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten

CAST Marija Pikić, Ismir Gagula, Bojan Navojec, Sanela Pepeljak, Vedran Djekic, Mario Knezovic, Jasna Beri, Nikola Djuricko, Stasa Dukic, Aleksandar Seksan, Velibor Topic

SOUND Igor Camo

Cannes (Un Certain Regard): Special Distinction of the Jury, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), London

Synopsis

Rahima (23) and Nedim (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 with the son of a local strongman and breaks his expensive mobile phone. This incident triggers a chain of events leading Rahima to the discovery that her brother leads a double life.

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Carlos Filipe Freitas

16Feb13

Everything is surrounded by misery due to the Balkan conflict and actual economic crisis. A look into the lives of two siblings in today's post-war Bosnia. Full Review and rating: http://alwayswatchgoodmovies.blogspot.com/2013/02/children-of-sarajevo-2012.html

paolone_fr

27Nov12

boring, poser, usual neorealistic european cinema stuff that only knows one way to keep the audience interested in what it has to say (not so much): fill the story with so much bad luck and unlucky steretypes that it becomes almost ridiculous. add a main character that wears the hijab as a choice and continuosly touches and fixes this veil, as if to underline that the hijab is always there, should you forget it.

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