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Pick of the Indies
Esma’s Secret
ESMA’S Secret, by director Jasmile Zbanic, was feted at the Berlin Film Festival. It is a study of the social dislocation that comes in the aftermath of war, it is one of a wave of new films that are turning their attention to the conflicts of central and eastern Europe in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Set in Bosnia it tells the story of Esma who lives in Sarajevo with her 12-year-old daughter Sara.
Esma is struggling to make ends meet, and works as a waitress to try and keep their heads above water. But the world they live in carries painful reminders of the trauma of the conflict they have survived, and when the truth about Sara’s father begins to emerge, the pair have some soul searching to do.
The film is followed by a question and answer session with director Jasmila Zbanic and Peter Hames, a film academic from Staffordshire University.
It’s Winter
THIS is a slow moving but engrossing film by Iranian director Rafi Pitts, which tells the story of a wife and daughter left by her husband to look after themselves as he travels abroad to find work. And when the couple hear nothing from him for months, they start fearing he may no longer be alive.
Step in the town’s dashing mechanic, who wants to win the perhaps-widowed lady’s attentions, and a dilemma for the heroine to solve.
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