Jasna Krajinovic

Violeta and Vyollca Dukay live in the south of Kosovo, close to the border with Albania. Faced with a very high unemployment in their country since the end of the war, they became deminers. They’ve been going to the minefields every day for six years now. The unique and very strong relationship that exists between the two sisters helps them to overcome their fear and to keep hoping in spite of the precariousness of their situation and the risks they run each day to earn their living.

12-year old Anton is spending his summer holidays at Kaskad military training camp, where he and 60 other Russian children are subjected to tough exercise regimens created by President Putin for the fight against Muslim Chechens.

After surviving ISIS prisons as a child, Rashid has been reunited with his family in Sinjar, northwestern Iraq. Now a teenager, the young Yazidi dreams of a brighter future. But peace is fragile, and hatred against his community is resurfacing.

Damian is 20 years old. We meet him a few months before he leaves the juvenile prison in Celje (in Slovenia), where he has been detained since he was sixteen. From his cell he dreams of the room at home, the room that once used to be his father’s and which awaits him when he returns to his grandparents’ house. When he finally arrives in this house, his desire to start a new life and to renew the relationship with his family and the society is put to trial.

Sabri left to combat in Syria, leaving his family alone in the face of such sudden and unbearable absence. Saliha, his mother, decided not to keep silent. Her story intertwines that of other parents who unite and fight against the youth indoctrination by the jihadist networks.

A riveting, close-up examination of a brave mother in the aftermath of her daughter's sudden decision to join the fight in Syria.