22/08/2023 - Ahmed Imamović’s third feature is essentially a TV film that deals with the topics of impending death and the sins of the past in a shallow and banal way
film profile]), which has just world-premiered at the Trieste Film Festival (21-30 January), is the grim story of a murder, based on a real-life event. The director positions the issue squarely as a result of the circumstances in a particular society – but despite being very strongly rooted in Bosnian specificities, it is easy to imagine this story taking place anywhere else.
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We meet the main character, and the victim, 24-year-old Aida (
Aida Bukva), as she wakes up in the bed of her new, older boyfriend. We soon learn that she is being stalked by an ex-boyfriend whom she left because he hit her. We also realise that she is a woman who wants to live her life on her own terms, independently, as she declines her boyfriend s offers to help her find a better job, instead of her current one in the textile factory in their small town.