A topic that Bosnian people can relate is definitely reconciliations of two individuals set at opposite side in war. Such a good film, the one that trades in harsh, dark emotions, but never loses the true nature of humanity. One individual kills older brother  before the very eyes and you end up getting to be blamed for it, for the rest of your life. All this happens when you are about 10 years old. Imagine the pain and the burden that you carry for the rest of your life? This is the topic in film „Five Minutes of Heaven“ shown on Sarajevo Film Festival and may sound familiar and remind on the situation in countries of this region, during the past civil war.  James Nesbitt, the celebrity exclusive, the screenwriter Guy Hilbert of the film and director of the film Oliver Hirschbiegel spent couple of days on Sarajevo Film Festival. The screening of „Five Minutes of Heaven” in Sarajevo was very important because it appears that Sarajevo can relate well to this topic. Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt are superb here. But, this is not about guilt, it does not seek a necessarily dramatic finale. It is the portrait of a process; and the hatred and trauma, as a foundation as such, that  took years to treat. The film does not taking any sides, you feel for both sides. Here the killer and the victim are both heroes.  The topic of the conflict in Northern Island, written by Guy Hilbert used a real event to develop a fictional story in which such two men meet in try to find peace with each other. “There really was a television show which tried to bring together a Protestant from Northern Island, today a civil activist and brother of his victim. The script writing process was long because the only two people who could change it were these men. They however, have never met in real life. Yet, I felt a moral obligation to create a fictional possibility of such event. That was difficult because we spent four weeks negotiating the last 4 sentences in the film with the two of them.” Hilbbert said. The film started as a small project and already had James Nesbitt on a board, an Irish actor well known to Sarajevo, by the film “Welcome to Sarajevo”, the film that gained attention more after the Liam Neeson accepted the role. "Actor dream about such role. Especially if the film deals with something close to home. I think that this film sent a strong message also with the fact that Liam, being Catholic, played role of Protestant killer and I, being Protestant played role of the Catholic victim of his crime. In preparing for this role I wanted to meet the man I was playing. And that helped me." In real life, Joe (the brother of victim) and Alistar (killer) have never seen the film together. One attended the premier of the film in Belfast and the other in Dublin. Even though in film they have met, this never happened in real life. "I asked them what would happen if they meet, Joe said he wouls pull a knife and Alister said he would try not to defend himself. " explained Hibbert. “The film profited from the fact that it was directed by a foreigner, in this case to be entirely objective, I tried to tell this story without judging anyone. Simply to tell it. If you look at both of them, you will see that each of them had their reasons for what they did. Therefore I think that this film left no space for taking sides.”