Today Friday, March 6, at 8:45 p.m. Cinema Ariston hosts the documentary DOM by Massimiliano Battistella in the presence of the author and main character Mirela Hodo, Lisa Pazzaglia (authorial collaborator and psychodramaturge) and Riccardo Biadene (producer).The meeting is in collaboration with Trieste Film Festival, Meridiano 13 and RE/Est and is moderated by TSFF artistic director Nicoletta Romeo.
Mirela, a 40-year-old Bosnian woman, lives in Rimini with her partner and two children. Driven by an unresolved past, she returns to Sarajevo, where she lived until the age of ten at the Dom Bjelave orphanage. Evacuated on a humanitarian convoy at the outbreak of war, she now reunites with her childhood friends-Amela, her best friend; Branko, a quasi-brotherly figure; and others.
Together they rediscover the city and the now-rebuilt institution that once sheltered her. Initially reluctant and uncertain in feeling toward the memory of her mother, Mirela feels an undefined but powerful sense of loss. Her journey turns into a search for her mother, and herself, leading her to the village where she was born, in Republika Srpska, to retrieve her birth certificate. An all uphill road of courage and reconquest, to answer a false question: who legitimizes my being in the world, when I for one “feel like a flower, like coming from the earth”? Through archival footage of besieged Sarajevo and intimate memories, the film interweaves personal memory with the history of an entire people.
After its premiere at Venice Days – Venetian Nights as part of the 82nd Venice Film Festival, the film was screened at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival and Dok Leipzig, where it was awarded the MDR Film Prize, and then continued its journey to numerous festivals.
