Early in Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, a film from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a woman tearfully recalls the day Serb soldiers stormed her Sarajevo home, ordering her and her family – whose faces she says she has now forgotten – to leave. She's part of a support group for women who lived through the mid-1990s genocide that killed at least 100,000 and displaced the better part of two million people. Another woman in the room suddenly gets a fit of the giggles. Strangely, the first woman keeps remembering and talking and crying, while the second woman's laughing fit gradually spreads through the room, until nearly all of victims are smiling and laughing through their grief.
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When Calamity Recedes, Life Must Go On
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