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The House Fata Didn't Build
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The House Fata Didn't Build

47 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Fata Orlovic is a Bosnian widow in her seventies who returns to her village of Konjevic Polje in 2000 to find her house ransacked and a Serbian Orthodox church built over what used to be her garden. Al Jazeera correspondent Sami Zeidan follows her decade-long legal fight to have the building removed from her land, a case that puts her in direct conflict with Bishop Vasilije Kacavenda, the church official with authority to relocate it. Zeidan interviews both sides, and his sit-down with Kacavenda ends abruptly when the bishop objects to his questions. The film sets Orlovic's story against the wider history of the 1995 killings of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, the ethnic cleansing that emptied villages like hers and left widows to rebuild alone. Local lawyers and community members appear alongside her, describing the intimidation and police pressure she has faced for pursuing the case. The church still stands on her land as the film ends, her legal fight unresolved.