Films
WARCHILD
Australian Premiere
WARCHILD
Australian Premiere
Germany/Bosnia 2006, German with English Subtitles,103 mins.
Director/Producer: Christian Wagner
Writer(s): Edin H. Hadzimahovic
Genre: Narrative Drama.
Film Website: http://www.www.wagnerfilm.de/warchild/en/balkanbluestrilogy.htm
Film Trailer: http://www.wagnerfilm.de/warchild/en/trailer.htm
Themes: Conflict, War, Rights of the child.
Related Links: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=europe_pub&c=bosher
Montreal World Film Festival - Best Screenplay Award
Bavarian Film Awards - Special Jury Prize 2007
Synopsis
The second instalment in Christian Wagner's Balkan Blues trilogy, Warchild is the moving story of one woman's quest to find her lost daughter. Senada is irrevocably caught up in the Bosnian conflict when her daughter, Aida, is taken from her. Nine years on, Senada refuses to give up hope that Aida is still alive, despite protests from her friends and ex-husband. After discovering that the Red Cross flew children from Bosnia to Germany during the war, Senada begins a long and treacherous journey to reunite with Aida. When she arrives, she is forced to make a choice between her love for her long-lost daughter and her struggle to heal her wounds.
"...psychologically and politically profound" — Tamara Straus (San Francisco Chronicle).
