Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...
Acting
Cvitešić's face carries entire silent scenes of devastation.
Direction
Žbanić finds poetry in kitchen arguments and parking lots.
Writing
No villains, just broken people making broken choices.
Director
Jasmila Žbanić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Žbanić filmed in actual Bosnian communities still recovering from war, casting non-professionals whose lived experience bleeds into the frame. The 'fundamentalist' group depicted was based on real post-war Wahhabi-influenced movements in rural Bosnia.
The title's Bosnian 'Na Putu' literally means 'on the way'—suggesting the characters are perpetually in transit toward something undefined, never arriving. Žbanić has called this her 'anti-romantic' film about the violence of hope.
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