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DOM

by Massimiliano Battistella

synopsis

Mirela, a forty-year-old Bosnian woman, lives in Rimini with her partner and their two children. Driven by an unresolved past, she returns to Sarajevo, where she lived until the age of ten at the Dom Bjelave orphanage. Evacuated on a humanitarian convoy at the outbreak of the war, she now finds her childhood friends: Amela, her best friend, Branko, an almost brotherly figure, and others. Together they rediscover the city and the institution, now rebuilt, that once welcomed her. Initially reluctant and uncertain in her feelings toward the memory of her mother, Mirela feels a vague yet powerful sense of loss. Her journey turns into a search for her mother, and for herself, which leads her to the village where she was born, in the Republika Srpska, to recover her birth certificate.

international title: Dom
original title: Dom
country: Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina
year: 2025
genre: documentary
directed by: Massimiliano Battistella
film run: 83’
screenplay: Massimiliano Battistella, Lisa Pazzaglia
cinematography by: Emanuele Pasquet
film editing: Desideria Rayner, Giampiero Civico
music: Nedim Zlatar
producer: Riccardo Biadene
co-producer: Nihad Kreševljaković, Ivana Cvetković Bajrović
production: Kama Productions, MESS (BA), Method (BA)

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