Finding Family

Overview

This documentary tells the true-life story of Oggi Tomic, born in Sarajevo but now living in Cambridge. He co-rote and co-directed the film. He was born in 1985 with water on the brain and given only months to live, abandoned by his mother and brought up in a series of Bosnian orphanages during the bitter Yugoslav civil wars. Finally as a teenager he made his way to the UK and a new life. In 2012 he returned to meet his long-lost biological family - and had to grapple with the fact that they are Serbs, and that some of them were among the enemy army that shelled and sniped at during the 1,300 days of the siege of Sarajevo which began 20 years ago

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 17, 2013

Original language

English

Production

OH Films,Scrumptious Productions

Director

Chris Leslie,Oggi Tomic

Writer

Oggi Tomic,Chris Leslie

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt3352984