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Documentary Serbian Lidija Zelović grew up in Sarajevo and fled from the Balkan civil war with her family in the early 1990s to the Netherlands. Later, she reported as a TV journalist from her home country – and is now going back again. What awaits her 20 years on is a war that is still going on in the minds of the people. With mounting frustration, Zelović is confronted with old hatred and new nationalist aggression – and discovers that her family's role as victims wasn't 100% accurate: her cousin was a sniper during the war, responsible for insidious ambushes and killings. What the director had planned as an attempt at reconciliation with the past turns into a mission through a minefield.

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Lidija Zelović (*1970) studied film science in Amsterdam und has been a Dutch citizen since 1998. Once Upon a Time (1998) was nominated as Best Dutch Short and My Friends (2007) as Best Dutch Documentary.

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