DOM
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) |