Grbavica is a 2006 film directed by Jasmila Zbanic, a Bosnia and Herzegovina-Austria-Croatia-Germany co-production shot in Bosnian. Set in postwar Sarajevo, it follows a single mother, Esma, and her twelve year old daughter Sara as a long hidden secret tied to the systematic wartime rape of Bosniak women comes to the surface. The film won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wins: Golden Bear - Best Film - 56th Berlin International Film Festival 2006
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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.
Created By: Jasmila Žbanić, Infobox: director
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