Seven survivors, one impossible choice: flee the war or stay and fight to live.
A surreal exploration of the war in Bosnia told through the unbreakable spirit of seven of her people whose strength to leave was as powerful as the fight to stay. Through the lens of diaspora, the film captures not just the weight of displacement, but the defiant act of survival and the unwavering pursuit of home, no matter where the journey leads.
Direction
Repas weaves documentary truth with surrealist animation—devastating and transcendent.
Cinematography
Visual metaphors for displacement that will haunt your eyelids.
Director
Daniela Repas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Daniela Repas is herself Bosnian-Canadian; several interview subjects are her own family members, though this is never explicitly stated in-film.
The title derives from a Bosniak funeral custom—poured water so the dead don't return to trouble the living, here ironically inverted for those who left while others stayed.
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