Nusmir Muharemović

Temmuz 1995 yılında Bosna’da İngilizce öğretmeni olan Aida Selmanagic, Srebrenica’nın küçük bir kasabasında Birleşmiş Milletler’in tercümanı olarak çalışmaktadır. Sırbistan ordusu bu küçük kasabayı ele geçirdiğinde Aida’nın eşi ve iki oğlu da BM kampında sığınma arayan binlerce vatandaş arasında yer alır. Aida, Sırp ordusu iktidara geldiğinde siyasi müzakerelerin bir parçası olur ve gittikçe daha korkutucu olan bilgileri tercüme etmek zorunda kalır. Aida ailesini kurtarabilecek midir yoksa onları ölüme terk etmesi mi gerekecektir?

The story begins in a small village in central Bosnia in 1989, when Asad, a 25-year-old boy, returns from school with the desire to marry his childhood sweetheart. Not knowing that his son already has marriage plans, father Agan arranges his son's marriage with the father of another girl whom Asad does not even know. After the sudden death of his father, the whole village begins to remind Asad of his bequest to his father, and until then the boring everyday life in the village becomes a dynamic and comical revelation of all the characters and their individual stories.

Testament is a humorous and emotional story set in a Bosnian village and the industrial city of Zenica in the early 1990s. It portrays, in a uniquely local way, the importance of a will and the consequences of its absence within Bosnian culture. Through the lives of ordinary people, the film weaves together a series of small conflicts and misunderstandings over inheritance, tradition, and human relationships, where old customs collide with a reality full of human flaws: gambling, gossip, love, and petty theft. The main character, Asad, after losing his father’s inheritance, must navigate the world of industrial Zenica, local taverns, and everyday rural troubles, aided by his best friend Dževad, a charming man constantly facing his own challenges while seeking shortcuts to every solution.

What is the true phrase? Heart is where the home is? Home is where the heart is? Bajo (37) is Bosnian-born Swede. After 18 years he has to visit his hometown. Against his will, Sarajevo is changing him. But that does not make him less Swedish or more Bosnian, just more himself. Or simply, home is where you are.

Daily routine of the public procurement agency in Bosnia-Herzegovina manned by terminally lazy socially awkward clerks with messy emotional lives.