CREDITS OF THE CREW
Sound Design
FELICIA HAMBERG, MALMÖ
Researc, Co-screenwriter
JENNI KAUPPILA, TAMPERE
Screenwriter
DRAGAN KOMADINA, SARAJEVO
Director, cinematographer
RIKARD ROGELAND, MALMÖ
Producer
KATRI SAUKONPÄÄ, TAMPERE
Cinematographer
HANNA KORHONEN, TAMPERE
Editor
RAISA LAUKKANEN, TAMPERE
CREDITS TO THE SUBJECT OF THE FILM
Mehdin Ibisevic, main character
Elvira, Merima, Ehdina, Ehdin Ibisevic
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Story/synopsis
This is a story of the young Bosniak refugee Mehdin, who managed to survive the genocide on Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, where his father and brother were killed and his home burned down. He came from six months of captivity in a Serbian war camp to Tampere in central Finland, where he works odd jobs and spends his free time playing football with Bosniak refugees from the Srebrenica camp.
We follow Mehdin’s story from the memories of escaping death during the war, to coming to where he is right now and what impact the events of returning to the old memories have. Using the memories and associations as a backdrop to the development that is taking place in Mehdin and his family’s life, we would like to conclude that a vicious circle has come full circle and bears with it a new beginning.
The aim of this film is to show a person coming from the war and successfully creating a new life after undergoing some of the most serious ordeals imaginable. The film will link together the psychological issues coming into a new context, being more or less in the hands of a greater force wether it be a government or a plagueing past. A young voice, laden with heavy losses and strong roots it can never return to, tells us about possible hopes and fears for the future. A voice breaking up with its known world, finding a personal freedom and a new beginning.
Biography main character
Mehdin Ibisevic
Mehdin Ibisevic, is a 28-year old Bosnian born and raised in Srebrenica, Bosnia. He joined the army when he was 16 to be in the forest with his father and brother and served for 4,5 years. Both his father and brother were later killed and their farm and home was burned down. Mehdin was taken prisoner of war and spent some 6 months in camps in Serbia and Pazar. He came to Tampere in central Finland as a refugee from war and now lives with his wife Elvira and their three children in the suburbian residential area Hervanta. He has established a new life for himself in Finland, formed a family, has picked up studies, is working and meeting people. A lot of things are keeping him directed forward: the possibility of his mother coming to live with him in Finland, a new-born child, moving to a new, permanent home and his oldest daughter starting school this August.
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