I had the opportunity to record something very important to me personally while being in Bosnia last month. I know that in my last post I said that my next project would be a short film. One that was going to be carefully planned down to every detail before recording any footage. This was the total opposite. I had no intentions of recording anything while being down there.
Luckily, I took my camera along anyway, mainly to take some pictures of Sarajevo and my relatives. Then after staying with my granddad in Sarajevo it really struck me how one can find beautiful stories in the lives of people you already know and in people who are close to you. Stories we somehow take for granted.
My grandparents, Abdulah and Sehaveta, had to leave Bosnia back in the beginning of the 90's because of the Yugoslavian war. They ended up in Norway and lived there for 12 years until Sehavata got so ill that she had to be put in a nursing home. Due to not understanding the language very well and because they never really felt at home in Norway, they decided to move back to Bosnia. Abdulah now lives in Sarajevo while Sehaveta stays at a nursing home 90 kilometers from there in the city of Travnik. Every week he travels two hours by bus to visit her.
At first I had trouble deciding how to exactly make the film, how to portray the story in the best way possible, but in the end decided on doing a short documentary. It's my most personal and important work yet so I really hope you enjoy it.
