A woman walks back into her war-scarred childhood—what she finds isn't closure, but herself.
Mirela, a Bosnian woman living in Rimini (Italy), returns to Sarajevo and the orphanage where she grew up, searching for her mother and herself amid memories of war and rediscovered identity.
Direction
Battistella blurs documentary and dream with surgical precision
Cinematography
Sarajevo's ruins shot like living memory, not history lesson
Director
Massimiliano Battistella
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bosnia's 'war babies'—children orphaned or abandoned during the 1992-1995 siege—remain a largely unexplored demographic in European cinema.
Battistella reportedly spent four years earning Mirela's trust before filming; her participation was conditional on final cut approval.
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