All Stories
Apr 12, 2007
When Calamity Recedes, Life Must Go On
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…