Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)

Grbavica

A mother. A daughter. A past that cannot stay buried.

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Date of release
2006-03-01
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (96)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Jasmila Žbanić

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 3. Including: Golden Bear

Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War. It was released in the United Kingdom as Esma's Secret: Grbavica, and in US as Grbavica: Land of My Dreams.

Background

The title refers to the neighbourhood of Sarajevo where Esma lives, which was one of the most traumatized neighbourhoods in the city.

...in 1992 everything changed and I realized that I was living in a war in which sex was used as part of a war strategy to humiliate women and thereby cause the destruction of an ethnic group. 20,000 women were systematically raped in Bosnia during the war.

In the film, the Serbian rapists are referred to as Chetniks, a term which some of the population of Sarajevo (mostly Bosnian Muslims and Croats and Sarajevan Serbs) used for the besieging Serb troops.

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