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Esma

 
Esma

(Esma) Director: Alen Drljević, BaH, 2007, original version / Czech subtitles, 26 min

"Unfortunately, your husband is not alive," says a psychic at the start of the film to the psychologist Esma "I see him lying on his belly, his head bent down. He was shot once in the head and once in the belly area." Without hesitating, Esma goes to the designated place accompanied by several men. In a short while, they really do come across some human remains. A DNA test shows, however, that they are not the remains of her husband. He was most probably murdered during the Bosnian–Serbian war on the orders of the infamous General Ratko Mladić. Consequently, Esma did not hesitate to go and testify during Mladić's trial at The Hague. "How absurd!" says this widowed mother of two with tears in her eyes, as she talks about the discovery of another victim of the Balkan conflict. "You have the need to find him. On the other hand, it's crazy, but you're happy when it's not him..." At the end of this enormously powerful but very simply made film, we learn that there are still an estimated 13,500 people missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


 

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