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- Taking place in 1992 as Bosnia is plunged into war, the story, adapted from Croatian Slavenka Drakulić 2001 novel, sees young Muslim teacher Samira (Natasha Petrovic) move from Sarajevo to a remote village to replace the previous mysteriously-disappeared teacher.
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Sep 13, 2010 · Being in the wrong place at the wrong time makes a young schoolteacher a prisoner of an ethnic war in As If I Am Not There. Juanita Wilson’s troubling debut feature revisits the...
As If I Am Not There is a story of a young school teacher from Sarajevo, Samira, whose life is shattered the day a Serbian soldier walks into her apartment and orders her to pack her things. Shortly after the onset of the Bosnian War, her village is invaded by the Serbian army: the men are executed, and the women are rounded up and cast into ...
Nov 30, 2011 · As If I Was Not There, is set during the Balkan war of the 1990s and delves into the resilience of the human spirit amidst extreme violence and upheaval. The film, which was screened by the Irish film and Television Academy at BAFTA’s London HQ, has been chosen to represent Ireland in the Foreign Language category for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Dec 13, 2011 · Based on the 1999 novel S. by Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic, As If I Am Not There, is a film about the mass rapes and violence against Bosnian women during the Balkan Wars of 1992-1995 [by some estimates, as many as 60,000 women were raped as part of a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing]. It is also Ireland’s entry to the 2012 ...
The story follows Samira (Petrovic), a modern teacher from Sarajevo who goes to teach in a small village just as the conflict is beginning to escalate. Soon after she arrives, Serbian soldiers come to the village, kill all the males and transport the females to camps to use as labour or sex.
Mar 10, 2011 · Juanita Wilson has followed her Oscar-nominated short 'The Door' with an adaptation of Slavenka Drakulic's novel 'As If I Am Not There'. The true story is a disturbing insight into crimes ...
Mar 4, 2011 · With Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova, Sanja Buric. A young female teacher from Sarajevo who travels to a remote village. Soon after arriving, the village is attacked by a group of soldiers. The men are killed, the women separated from the children, and placed in a makeshift brothel.
