Sarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have "nafaka", the destiny which was bestowed on them by ... Read allSarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have "nafaka", the destiny which was bestowed on them by God Almighty. They have enough gallows humor and courage to believe in freedom and happine... Read allSarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have "nafaka", the destiny which was bestowed on them by God Almighty. They have enough gallows humor and courage to believe in freedom and happiness.
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I was born in 1993 in Bosnia. I don't have memories on war, but as far as I could tell, my parents and their generation could say a lot of that terrible conflict that they lived. My Nafaka is like that: I know so much about said war, but I cannot connect those stories with anything real. I sometimes feel lucky cause of that, and sometimes it makes me sad. Lucky cause there is no single experience from the war that could mess with my life and sad cause I know so much about it. That's my own Nafaka: so far but yet so close to something like that.
Nafaka is a story about realistic and wonderful people in times that are surreal and awful. Director and screenwriter chose to tell a story from a perspective of a stranger. Janet Hugh is that stranger, whom the career brought to Sarajevo and her Nafaka made her stay there. She discovered love and life in a place where both of those things were dying. She found people who were surviving, but all that they wanted is to live.
There are so many different topics that "Nafaka" is showing to us: life in times of war and after war; what are the things that gave people energy when everything was draining that energy away; what kind of consequences you will endure once you survived something terrible; etc etc etc.
I know that this movie didn't get the attention it deserves, so I'm gonna recommend it to every single person that I know. Everybody need this film. We Bosnians don't really know how to translate or even explain this strange word, Nafaka, so Jasmin Durakovic decided to tell us a story about it.
Is Nafaka life, or is life Nafaka? Find it out on your own.
Really worth the 10/10, thats what i think this movie deserves and for real. Even the way the characters have been portrayed, you can not but be drawn to them so much as they seem to have that feeling about them. The Characters Ahmed, Redeye, Sado and the commander bring this amazing Bosnian Movie to life.Excellent work.
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Janet Hugh: Nafaka is something strange in Bosnia. It is luck and it isn't. It is fate and it isn't. It is God's giving and yet may not be.
- SoundtracksNema vise
Written by 'Sejo Sexon'
Performed by 'Zabranjeno Pusenje'
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- €1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $8,998
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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