Vanished, Missing, Buried

Six years after their escape, Sebiha and Asima, two Muslim women of Northern Bosnia, travel back to their old homeland. Today, only Serbs live there. The two Bosnian refugees are looking for their husbands and brothers who had been missing ever since the start of the 'ethnic cleansing' campaign in 1992. Ulrike Baur and her team accompany the two women on their difficult search for witnesses. During a visit to a mass burial site, Asima identifies her husband among the victims. Sebiha finds out that the camp commander responsible for her husband´s execution and other perpetrators are still living in the close neighbourhood. Filmmaker Ulrike Baur´s attentive camera keeps a respectful distance. The precise matter-of-fact commentary avoids all melodramatic effects that we know so well from disaster-journalism of commercial TV. Her film is never sentimental, never without passion. The camera is with her, but the voyeur´s impulse disappears in the light of suffering and its silent presentation.