Halima’s Path (2012)

• Year: 2012
• Released: 25 Oct 2012
• Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Adwords: 30 wins & 16 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2244877/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/halimas_path
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Bosnian, Croatian
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Drama, War
• Runtime: 97 min
• Writer: Fedja Isovic
• Director: Arsen A. Ostojic
• Cast: Alma Prica, Olga Pakalovic, Mijo Jurisic
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	8.0/10
	86% – Critics
	86% – Audience

Halima’s Path Storyline

After the end of the war in Bosnia, Halima, a good-natured peasant woman from a remote Muslim village in Western Bosnia, searches for the remains of her husband and her teenage son, who were taken by Serbian paramilitary forces and executed. Using DNA analysis, the UN Committee for Missing Persons manages to identify the remains of her husband in one of the mass graves, but the Committee still can’t identify the remains of her son, since Halima refuses to give a blood sample for DNA testing. There is something that the Committee doesn’t know, something that Halima is hiding from others: her beloved son wasn’t actually her biological son. The story takes us back two decades ago, during the period of Yugoslavia, where we learn how Halima and her husband became adoptive parents, after fruitless efforts to have a child on their own. Along with that story, we follow Halima’s path nowadays while she is searching for the biological mother of her son, the only person who can give a blood sample, to help identify the remains of her adopted son. We learn that the biological mother of Halima’s son is her own niece, her brother’s daughter, who had an affair with a Serbian boyfriend from a nearby village. Since Halima’s brother strongly disapproved of his teenage daughter’s relationship with a Christian boy, his daughter has secretly given the unwanted child to her aunt Halima, hiding this from the others, and more importantly, from her own Serbian boyfriend who thought that the baby had died. As Halima searches for her estranged niece, who now lives in the Serbian controlled part of the Bosnia with her husband and three daughters and doesn’t want to have any links to her previous life, Halima discovers a horrifying fact from her worst nightmares which stops her from searching further. Still, with this discovery, the spiral of tragic events from the past would continue in the present, disrupting once again the troubled lives of the characters.—anonymous

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Another Masterpiece from the Balkans

I watched Halimin Put last night and I can only congratulate Arsen Ostojić on the magnificent job he did by directing this feature film; as one says in Croatian, svaka čast majstore! I always enjoy watching films from the Balkans because of the actors’ fascinating acting. Indeed, they act in such a natural way that we have the feeling to be also part of the film and experience the actors’ feelings.

Beyond the tensions and cultural differences that may exist between Christians and Muslims, I really appreciated that Mr. Ostojić dealt with the psychological trauma suffered by people involved (both actively and passively) in a war. We mostly tend to forget that even if a war is over, it actually never ends for those who experienced it as this a hellish moment of life they cannot easily get over. I think the biggest strength of the film lies in the perfect depiction – through the behaviours of the characters – of the psychological ravages each person experiencing war has to cope with once the nightmare ends ; at least this is what made a lasting impression on me.

I am no film critic, but I was eager to submit my review on this title as it has been quite a while now since I last watched a film of such high quality. There is of course still very much to say about the other very interesting aspects of the film, but professional film critics will do it better than I ever will.

Keep up the good work, Mr. Ostojić! 🙂

Brilliant Balkan War Film

Halima’s Path tackles the subject of the Balkan War, venturing much further than a simple retelling of events. Set in Bosnia, the story unfolds through the masterful use of flashback. Beginning in pre-conflict, multi-ethnic Yugoslavia the film culminates in present-day Bosnia with the tragic repercussions of the war. Halima’s seemingly straightforward quest to have the remains of her husband and son identified from those found in a mass grave exposes a richly woven tapestry of events–a tapestry which reveals the very human side of war.

The film is brilliantly directed by Arsen A. Ostojic, with excellent performances delivered by a stellar cast. Particularly powerful are Alma Prica in the role of Halima and Olga Pakalovic as Safija. The evocative score adds to the authenticity of the film.

Halima’s Path offers a novel look into the personal tragedy of war. This supremely moving film delivers a true emotional punch–be prepared to shed more than a few tears. A true masterpiece.

Film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

This movie awakens emotion and no matter how hard you try as a strong male not to cry, a few times in this movie that’s just not easy. I suggest that women bring to the cinema enough Kleenex.

Excellently acted, well photographed. Excellent film.

The film’s director, whose two previous films (A Wonderful Night in Split and No one’s son) were great to me, did an excellent job, and I think that movie audiences will love this movie.

Minor objections that some might object to the film’s authenticity. It’s nonsense like: why they in the woods gives the blinker when hillbillies are not using blinker in the city.

Regardless of these little things that will be noticed just during second or third viewing of the film this movie is probably the best Croatian film in recent years.