The Chicken

by Una Gunjak

2014 Selection

GERMANY / CROATIE 2014 15′ IN BOSNIAN

World premiere Competition Short Film

As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. While trying to bring back the missing chicken, Selma's mum becomes the target of a sniper shoot. It's Sarajevo, year running 1993.


 Director

Una Gunjak

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