Best Screenplay
2016. In a stifling kitchen where coffee bubbles like blood, Petra, an elderly former sniper for the Serbian army, sells her memories to a director in search of a “good story.” Amidst cigarette smoke and distorted truths, the narrative slips back to 1993, to the hills of a besieged Sarajevo. There, alongside her spotter Azhra, Petra caught two young lovers in her crosshairs on the bridge: the “Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo.”
But memory is a double-edged sword. Through a labyrinth of omissions, the portrait of a woman who ceased to be a mother to become a weapon emerges. Petra reveals a hesitation that did not save lives but condemned them twice over. A claustrophobic drama about the weight of guilt and the refusal of redemption: because, to paraphrase her own words, “The losers run. The winners stay in the horror.”