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Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

A single mother of a teenager in the midst of a divorce, Nevena Murtezic struggles to balance her life between her 17-year-old son, Dino, and a job constantly under pressure from politics and the public.

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar finds a new job working with a community of Muslims. This affects his relationship with his girlfriend Luna as his beliefs begin to change.

A film about a woman who discovers her husband's war crimes and must decide how to respond.

"Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; post-production was carried out in Germany. The theme "generation" is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new self-understanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Traditions and national history are viewed in a new way and cinematically narrated. The concept of generation was not intended to neutralize the differences between the countries, but to create a fascinating frame for comparison. The stories were written in accordance with this thematic guideline especially for this project.

Causes and consequences of the assassination that happened hundred years ago in Sarajevo still echo throughout Europe. On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip shot Austro-Hungarian heir presumptive Franz Ferdinand. The assassination was used as a cause for the First World War.

When Bosnian-Serb forces began shelling Sarajevo in 1992, an officer of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian army made an appeal to all inhabitants of the city with video cameras to "start filming, because their material would definitely influence events." Whether prompted by this call or not, many of those who possessed a camera attempted to capture the atmosphere of the besieged city, resulting in this extraordinary film. At once engaging, horrifying and funny, these "home movies" provide a stark testimony of the courageous spirit of a people under siege, trying to live "normal" lives against all odds.

The director used the fate of her friend Bilja as a role model of a generation of young people who spent their teenage days in the war-torn Sarajevo. In 1992, Bilja was severely wounded during one shelling. She lost her arm and a French photographer was making pictures of her while she was bleeding in the street, helpless. He did not help her. The photograph won him fame and World Press Photo Award for 1993. And what was Biljana's fate?

Twenty-six-year-old Igor is a maintenance worker at a medical rehabilitation center where 71-year-old Edita is undergoing therapy. Their chance encounter will turn into an unusual relationship. Without exchanging a word, the two realize they are kindred spirits and start changing one another.

THE PLACE WE LEFT is a film about six people, all born in Sarajevo, who left the city mostly due to war. They talk about their experiences fleeing their city, settling down somewhere else, or being caught in the middle.

"What remains" is about the empty spaces left behind in the wake of war and violence.

Jasmila met her husband Damir Ibrahimovich in a shelter, during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Today they are both successful filmmakers, but Damir, who defended Sarajevo during the war, faces a particular obstacle: his fear of flying. For that reason, he never travels to festivals and film sets by air. To solve his problem, Damir takes a seminar and over the course of the sessions realizes that all of his fears are consequences of a bigger picture, the four-year siege of Sarajevo. Will Damir fly?

Story of a man who changed three names, three political systems, three wives and three religions. Member of Russian mafia, son of the famous film director, a boy looking for love.