A film from the former Yugoslavia is going to be released at a small cinema on this weekend. The title is "Grbavica: Ema's secret". I have found it on an advertisement on a magazine by chance recently. Since I travelled the former Yugoslavian region last year, I have developed an interest in the region. As Sarajevo had been so impressive, I found immediately that Grbavica might be a part of it. Shortly after I watched the official Japanese website of the film. According to the website, the film is about a single mother and her daughter in the current Sarajevo. The mother is a victim of the systematic humiliation during the Yugoslav war in the 1990s, but she cannot talk to her daughter about it. Although the film is so serious, it is described with non violent scenes. This film won the golden bear of the Berlin film festival in 2006. I do not know how good the film is, but I really want to watch it. One more thing I found on the website is that there was the special comment of Ivica Osim, the coach of the Japanese national football team and he is unconscious because of a stroke at the present time. I remembered that he was born in Sarajevo. He commented that they never forgot that they used to live together there and must not hush up the tragedy. He is also one of the victims of the war. His comment was so serious and meaningful. I was deeply impressed. The date of his signature was 13 November 2007, which was 3 days before he was struck by a stroke. I hope he will recover from the illness.
