Winner of this year's IFTA (Irish Film and Television Awards) for Best Film and Best Director. Directed by Irish filmmaker Juanita Wilson, this is her first feature film and follows her 2008 Oscar nominated short The Door.
Based on actual testimony from the Bosnian War in the 1990's as revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague.
A young woman from Sarajevo begins her new job in the country as a school teacher. It's not long after this that she and the other villagers are kidnapped and transported away. The men are shot and the women are used as laborers and sex slaves for the soldiers.
Harrowing and hard to watch at times, it's difficult to comprehend how this was allowed to occur not that long ago.
An ending full of life and hope emerges from the darkness that came before it...
