Film: Children of Sarajevo (Djeca)

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/3/c/event_162720572.jpegIt is hard to choose from so many good films screening at this year's BFI London film festival, but this Bosnian, French, German, Turkish co-production directed by Aida Begić stands out following our visit to Bosnia earlier this year.

Rahima (Marija Pikić) is a young woman in her early 20s who lost her parents during the war. There are hints that she has come through a wayward adolescence, but has found solace renewing her faith in Islam. She becomes determined to set an example for her 14-year-old brother Nedim (Ismir Gagula) and ensure that he doesn’t make the same mistakes she did. Yet the long hours Rahima spends working in a restaurant kitchen mean she can’t constantly monitor what Nedim is up getting up to. When she’s called to Nedim’s school to discover he is being targeted for bullying by the spoilt son of a local politician, Rahima begins to uncover alarming secrets Nedim is keeping. Aida Begić’s powerful, pertinent drama depicts a generation growing up in a country knowing nothing of stability, struggling to recover from the horrors of recent wars only to suffer during the global economic meltdown. (Michael Hayden)

The film screens at 9pm, so as it is late for a "school night", we will meet for a drink before the film from about 7.30pm in the bar of the Institut Français.

Tickets are £11.50 and can be booked online here (http://www.bfi.org.uk/). If you want to see this film, it will be best to book soon as festival tickets will sell out fast.

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