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- The director used the fate of her friend Bilja as a role model of a generation of young people who spent their teenage days in the war-torn Sarajevo. In 1992, Bilja was severely wounded during one shelling. She lost her arm and a French photographer was making pictures of her while she was bleeding in the street, helpless. He did not help her. The photograph won him fame and World Press Photo Award for 1993. And what was Biljana's fate?
- Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 90s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him paralyzed. Shaima is sold into marriage with a man 40 years her senior and falls pregnant. Since Shaima's husband still owes half the dowry to her father he brings her back into the constraining patriarchal fold of the family, where she lives with her 5-year-old daughter. This situation doesn't prevent the two from seeing each other, even though this means going against their families' hard rules. In constant fear of revenge on the part of the male members of both families, they struggle to hold on to their love.
- Helga Reidemeister portrays four women from Afghanistan-Jamila Mujahed, India-Arundhati Roy, Serbia-Stasa Zajovic and the USA-Sissy Farenthold, who demonstrate their opposition to nationalism and war.
- A group of young professional and non-professional actors and musicians is reconstructing the Auschwitz girls' orchestra in a theatre project based on the original testimonies of the survivors from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Documentary about Budapest's Chinese market.
- In Belgrade, "Women In Black" silent vigils were held weekly from 1991 to 1997 to protest nonviolently against the war; the Serbian regime's policy; nationalism; militarism and all forms of hatred, discrimination and violence. They support deserters from every former Yugoslavian republic, organize actions to support refugees and publish books and magazines.