The Coolidge Corner Theatre

WARCHILD, the second part of Christian Wagner's planned Balkan Blues Trilogy, describes the dilemma of the people whose lives were ruptured by the Bosnian conflict. Thirty-year-old Senada tries to find peace after the war. In the whirlwind of the conflict, she has been separated from her then two-year-old daughter Aida, who has since been listed as missing. But Senada refuses to give up her search and finds out that she's been given to German foster parents. After a harrowing illegal border crossing to Ulm, a town in Southern Germany, Senada finds her: now 12 and renamed Kristina, being raised by a well-to-do German couple. As she observes her daughter from a cafe near their home, Senada discovers she can't trust anyone.

(Germany/Slovenia, 2006) dir. Christian Wagner, 35 mm, 103 min, color, in German / Bosnian with English subtitles 


About the director - Christian Wagner was born in Immerstadt/Allgäu in 1959. He is a founding member of the independent cooperative „Der andere Blick“ in Munich and teaches at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. His works include Ghettokids (2002), Zehn wahnsinnige Tage (2000) and Wallers letzter Gang (1989). The short film Zita (1997) is the first part of his “Balkan Blues Trilogy”. Warchild, (part 2), was awarded several prizes, including the Special Jury Prize of the Bavarian Film Prize.