Arquivo

A documentary that, for one year, follows up on therapy sessions for Sedina, Jasmina, and Senada, three women who survived the atrocities of the Bosnia war (1992-1995), where they lost members of their families, friends, and neighbors. The German NGO Vive Zene offered the sessions of therapy as a means to take up life once more for these survivors. Structured according to the four seasons of the year, the documentary uses its nuances to define the feelings of the protagonists and show that nothing is finite. “In the fall, there is the separation from him/herself in each character, just as the leaves that fall from a tree. The situation becomes more delicate with the coming of winter and its sad colors that evoke deep depression caused by the awareness of the losses in the war. A retake in the lives of those women seems to begin effectively with the coming of spring, to culminate in a period of true rebirth which is summer”, states director Laurent Bécue-Renard.