Dom

Mirela, a forty-year-old Bosnian woman, lives in Rimini with her partner and their two children. Driven by an unresolved past, she returns to Sarajevo, where she lived until the age of ten at the Dom Bjelave orphanage. Her journey turns into a steep road of courage and reconquest, to answer a false question: who legitimizes my being in the world, when I myself “feel like a flower, as if I came from the earth?” Through archival footage of besieged Sarajevo and intimate memories, the film intertwines personal memory with the history of an entire people. (Giornate degli Autori)

Director's Filmography (Selection)
Dom (2025, doc) - Samira (2022, short) - Pierrot sui binari (Pierrot on the Tracks, 2020, doc short)
European Panorama Documentary · Eröffnungsfilme | Opening Films 2026
Director Massimiliano Battistella
Italy / Bosnia and Herzegovina 2025
color
82 minutes
Italian / Bosnian
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Massimiliano Battistella, Lisa Pazzaglia
Cinematography Emanuele Pasquet
Editing Desideria Rayner, Giampiero Civico
Sound/Sounddesign Mattia Biadene
Music Nedim Zlatar
With Mirela Hodo, Kristaq Nina, Denis Nina, Mathias Nina
Producer(s) Riccardo Biadene, Nihad Kreševljaković, Ivana Cvetković Bajrović
Production
KAMA Productions, MESS, Method
World Sales
KAMA Productions, Method
Austrian Premiere
World Premiere
Venice International Film Festival 2025
Tags
Family Ties & Generations, Migration / Military Conflicts, Current political relevance
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