A Bosnian war grave digger falls for the woman who stopped him jumping off a bridge. Heavy.
Benjamin is a young poet from Turkey, works in Bosnia as a volunteer to help the extrication of dead bodies from the mass graves. He comes to Bosnia in order to escape from his past. A childish game of Benjamin causes Joseph's lover-Zeliha's dead. The psychological pressure of his job revives his past in his dreams. Zrinka is Serbian-Bosnian psychologist who is helping to the people in post war syndromes.Benjamin meets her committing suicide on Mostar Bridge.By the time they fall in love. She releases Benjamin from his qualms of conscience. Benjamin goes back to Turkey to face with his brother and past. Zrinka saw a dream something bad happened to Benjamin. She goes to Turkey but she finds secrets and new description of love.
Cinematography
Mostar Bridge as a character—liminal space between life and death.
Acting
Krepela's Zrinka carries the weight of two nations in her silences.
Writing
Dream logic that blames without excusing—rare moral complexity.
Director
Faysal Soysal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mostar Bridge's destruction in 1993 and 2004 reconstruction mirror the film's themes of fractured reconciliation.
Director Soysal volunteered in Bosnian grave exhumations—Benjamin's dissociative dreams draw from actual field notes.
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