International film festival recognition for ‘Almasa’s Story’
We are pleased to announce our documentary short, Almasa’s Story, by filmmaker Bojan Hadžiabdić, has been selected as a finalist at the Luleå International Film Festival, a semi-finalist in the Stockholm City Film Festival and at the Sweden Film Awards, and as a quarter-finalist in the World Indie Film Awards.
The film features Almasa Salihović, a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, and Swedish graphic artist Anneli Furmark, who spent a year interviewing Almasa to create the graphic novel, As Long As We Are Together: Almasa’s Story (Avant-Verlag, September 2026; University of Toronto Press, November 2026).
Film poster for Almasa’s Story (2026).
The documentary follows Almasa as she revisits the physical and emotional geography of her past: the fields and hillsides of Skejići, the escape routes families took, and the places where survivors gather each year to commemorate the genocide.
Set in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country that is still navigating the legacy of the 1995 Bosnian War that claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced over two million people, the film reveals how Anneli transformed Almasa’s childhood memories of war and genocide into visual form.
Anneli Furmark (left) interviewing with Almasa (right) at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial (2026).
Anneli sketching Almasa during an interview in Almasa’s Story in preparation for the graphic novel (2026).
We would like to thank the Luleå International Film Festival, the Stockholm City Film Festival, the Sweden Film Awards, and the World Indie Film Awards for the recognition of our film, and to Bojan for bringing this incredible story to the screen.
The trailer for Almasa’s Story is out now. The full documentary will be available on our YouTube in 2027.