Nataša Petrović
Petra, who has made a life for herself in the big city has a crush on her office co-worker Igor and is trying hard to start a meaningful relationship. Her mother's visit from a provincial town in the south not only jeopardizes her efforts, but adds to the already palpable disconnect between the mother and daughter. But soon it will be New Year's Eve, and everybody is hoping for the best.
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable
