Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

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Nominated as one of the top 5 films in Europe for 2006 and winner of numerous other festival awards, Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams is a touching film about a single mother (Esma) who lives with her 12-year-old daughter (Sara), in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. When Sara wants to go on a school trip, questions arise about her father, who is supposed to have died as a war martyr. What secret is Esma hiding? The truth, threatening to tear them apart, will eventually bring them back together in what becomes a beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.