Juanita Wilson : 2010
The story of Samira, a young woman beginning her first teaching assignment in a remote part of Bosnia, far from her home in Sarajevo. Suddenly her life is shattered the day a young soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse, she quickly learns the rules of camp life. The day she is picked out to 'entertain' the soldiers, the real nightmare begins. Stripped of everything she ever had and facing the constant threat of death, Samira struggles against all the hatred she sees around her. In a final act of courage or madness, she decides to make one last stand: to dare to be herself. And this simple act saves her life. It's when she realises that surviving means more than staying alive that she has to make a decision that will change her life forever. A modern war story that explores love, identity and the connections between us, Juanita Wilson's award-winning debut feature is a stark and compelling account of the atrocities against women in the Bosnian conflict.
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