Grbavica

feature film, 2006.

DIRECTED BY: Jasmila Žbanić

Grbavica

CAST:
Mirjana Karanović (Esma),
Luna Mijović (Sara),
Leon Lučev (Pelda),
Kenan Catić (Samir),
Jasna Beri (Sabina)

SCRIPT:
Jasmila Žbanić

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Christine A. Maier

Synopsis:
The films tells a story about a mother and a daughter in the time after the war in the 1990s, when a lot of people were still trying to deal with the atrocities that directly or indirectly affected them. Esma, the single mother of twelve-year-old Sara lives in the Sarajevo neighborhood Grbavica. Trying to earn enough money to support her daughter, she gets a second job as a waitress in a night club and does not spend enough time with her daughter.

digital, color, 107 min