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IN MEMORY OF
ABDULAH KADENIC
1931 - 2012

After leaving their home in Bosnia because of the Yugoslavian war in the beginning of the 90's, Abdulah Kadenic and his wife Sehaveta ended up in Norway. They lived there for 12 years, until May 2007 where Sehavata had a series of strokes. She lost the ability to speak and the ability to move most of her body so she had to be put in a nursing home. Due to not understanding the language very well and because they never really felt at home in Norway they decided to move back to Bosnia.

Abdulah now lives in Sarajevo while Sehaveta stays at a nursing home 90 kilometers from there in the city of Travnik. Every week he visits her.

Music:
Message To Bears (messagetobears.com)
Sky Flying By (skyflyingbymusic.org)

Camera: Canon T2i
Lenses: Tokina 11-16mm, Canon 50mm 1.8
Grading: Sony Vegas, Magic Bullet Looks
Sound: Internal mic

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  • Dino Ganic 3 months ago
    I'm speechless. Amazing!
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  • Dan Moore plus 3 months ago
    Very powerful. Not having the right equipment worked for this piece, gritty, realism. No point setting up a perfect shot when the scene you're shooting isn't perfect.
  • Bryan Shelton 3 months ago
    i agree
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  • Sacha Barraud plus 3 months ago
    Well done! It's a privilege to watch this footage! Very generous...
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 3 months ago
    It was a privilege to shoot it! Thanks for watching.
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  • Ártico 3 months ago
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 3 months ago
    Cool. Thanks a bunch.
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  • Sam Morrill staff 2 months ago
    Incredible work, Nizar. Further proof that even the smallest stories can be profoundly powerful. Just beautiful.
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 2 months ago
    Thank you so much, Sam! And thanks for adding it to the Staff Picks.
  • Peter Snelling plus 2 months ago
    Yes. Thanks for adding to Staff Picks. I'd never have found this wonderful film without that.
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  • beautiful beautiful beautiful. Real talk.
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  • Michael du Sautoy plus 2 months ago
    Poignant, moving, lovely
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  • David Ward plus 2 months ago
    Excellent work, simple and beautiful. Really loved the music as well.
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  • Joe Moya plus 2 months ago
    nice
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  • Zlate Jovanov 2 months ago
    Браво за видеово, многу убаво но и тажно во исто време... немам коментар...

    п.с. Со што камерче снимаш ако може да знам? Фала :)
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  • tyler kruse 2 months ago
    The best, really touches you, it made me cry (•‿•)
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  • Photoboy18 2 months ago
    ordinary story of man nevertheless powerful ,great job !!!
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  • Flipside Productions plus 2 months ago
    Wow, that was very touching. I love the way you captured this, it seemed very honest. Fantastic work.
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  • Vignoto Photo 2 months ago
    Congratulations on making something moving. Beautiful.
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  • Vignoto Photo 2 months ago
    Oh and can you please tell me the songs - as opposed to just the artists.
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 2 months ago
    In chronological order:
    Message to Bears - To Make A Portrait
    Sky Flying By - The Conversation of Momentum
    Message to Bears - Find Our Way Home
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  • Scott Parkin 2 months ago
    This is one of the best films I've ever seen.
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  • Nik Voigt plus 2 months ago
    This film was very moving Nizar. You captured and portrayed it with great gentleness and humility! Well done!
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  • Very very good and inspiring. Well done
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  • Michele Mangiapane 2 months ago
    Complimenti. Filming real life giving to audience such feelings is very hard. You touched me.
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  • Steckdosenteufel 2 months ago
    Realy realy great! It captivated me emotionally.
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  • Haris Ceric plus 2 months ago
    This is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making it.
    Sevdah na filmu, rasplaka me...
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  • Drew M plus 2 months ago
    Simply beautiful and well done...
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  • danilo la russa 2 months ago
    you must be very proud of this movie...greetings from naples, italia.
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  • FoggyPunk 2 months ago
    amazing clip! what's first track name?
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  • J.E.A. 2 months ago
    Very very nice work!

    Hello from Germany
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  • FKY plus 2 months ago
    Thank you...
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  • Sir Fawn plus 2 months ago
    Very lovely work! Watched your other videos and they are nicely done as well! Keep it up!
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  • Eric de Pablos 2 months ago
    Amazing.
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  • Morgan Slusser 2 months ago
    wow... I am speachless. That was beautiful.
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  • Patrick Plessgott 2 months ago
    Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of work!
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  • Nina Now 2 months ago
    Beautiful...
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  • Markus Wagner 2 months ago
    It´s so strong !!! Thank you for sharing this.
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  • Jon Bryant plus 2 months ago
    A beautiful story that you told so well.
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  • Reinaldy Abilegawa 2 months ago
    Oh this is my motivation to keep writing about my life. Thanks heaps, and overall this video is great!
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  • murat gündüz 2 months ago
    a beautiful day.thank you.
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  • R4Fproduction 2 months ago
    little bit sad, but very buitifull
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  • mihajlo stojinovic 2 months ago
    Deeply emotional short movie. Respect!
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  • Jack Griffin 2 months ago
    So beautiful is the spectrum of emotions in this story, that you brought a tear to a middle aged man's eye. Thank you for that.
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  • Carla Alo 2 months ago
    Wow! So beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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  • FLOTS 2 months ago
    much awareness...sesibiliza mucho
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  • Paris Blue 2 months ago
    buena historia y bien contada! love your work!
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  • Sasa Ljubojevic 2 months ago
    Beautiful story.
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  • Peter Snelling plus 2 months ago
    Amazing. I loved it. It was really great too to see a documentary that told most of it's story using pictures. I want to learn from that. It was great. Thanks!
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  • Crazyhorse Films 2 months ago
    Amazing story. I personally feel that shooting it all handheld adds to the piece. It feels more real and it captures those moments whereas if you used sliders, jibs, etc. it would seem more staged. Great job!
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  • David Giang 2 months ago
    So strong.. thanks for sharing with us! :)
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  • André Ramos 2 months ago
    Wowwww, don't know what to say... Magnificent!
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  • Milan Petrovic 2 months ago
    Veoma mi se dopada sto ti se u pricu nije uvukao rat kao glavna tema sto je gotovo obavezno u ovim prostorima. Iako je rat bio veliki deo njihovog zivota, ti si ga ostavio po strani i predstavio ovog gospodina i njegovu borbu sa usamljenoscu.

    Jednostavno, dirljivo, i veoma lepo odradjeno.
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  • miguel zabala 2 months ago
    excellent, very touching
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  • Michiel Eskens 2 months ago
    Nice man. Been busy with these kind of things lately. So how many days did it take to make this? Like actual filmdays? And how long did you research for this movie?
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 2 months ago
    It was shot over 4 days, shooting for about two hours each day. The voice-over probably took the longest to record since I was planning on having it throughout the whole film and not just the beginning and end.

    Abdulah and Sehaveta are my grandparents so I didn't have to make any research beforehand. I knew their story already, but doing a film about it wasn't in my plans at all. I was visiting them so I just took the camera along to do some photos of Sarajevo. Then after being down there it really struck me how beautiful a story it was and I felt that I had to make a short film about it.
  • Franz Deeke plus 3 days ago
    Great, amazing content. deeply moved by it congrats.
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  • Louise Liew 2 months ago
    It touches my feeling and make me feel the beauty of love.
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  • vick yuksek 2 months ago
    time withouth cry... u touch my feelings... simply amazing... thanks for this..
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  • brunavalenca pro 2 months ago
    this touched my heart and inspired me like you have no idea.

    cheers from brasil.
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  • Portable plus 2 months ago
    We've featured this video on Portable TV!
    portable.tv/film/post/between-days/
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  • Capucha 2 months ago
    Just beautiful.
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  • Nizar Pasalic plus 2 months ago
    Thank you for all the comments! It has been wonderful reading them. I never expected this film to reach out to so many people but I'm really glad it did. It means a lot to me.
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  • simply beautiful.
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  • qh! 2 months ago
    Beautiful story.
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  • Man Under Moon 2 months ago
    Beautiful. Powerful. Brilliant.
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  • Roberto Castillo 2 months ago
    Epic! speechless
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  • Alex Stoian 2 months ago
    A very emotional, beautiful story.
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  • EnigunRa 2 months ago
    Beatuful story. My Grandfather was also born in Banja Luka (Laktaši) in 1930 :-) Cant get enoguh of this video. Very emotional :-)
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  • Giorgos Stefas 2 months ago
    Powerful.
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  • Sergey Stefanovich plus 2 months ago
    Beautiful story!
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  • Laura Garwood 2 months ago
    Beautiful! I really like the way this simple story has been told, great work with the grading as well.
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  • Shane Lim 1 month ago
    Great film. Would just like to know what font you used for the credits?
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 1 month ago
    Thanks!

    The font is Letter Gothic.
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  • Amazing photography Nizar. Love the color grading.
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  • Wonderful. I really enjoyed that.
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  • Stayten 1 month ago
    Very moving, thank you.
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  • Neon Wilderness plus 1 month ago
    Beautiful Work! This has so much power behind it.
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  • Gtown 4 weeks ago
    Bravo, video je za 10, posjeca me na moju nanu i dedu.. ps. ovo nije moj account haha
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  • Ani Boghossian 3 weeks ago
    Amazing story... beautifully shot... thank you so much for this... I featured this in my blog nurpages.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/between-days/
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  • Mike Lawson plus 5 days ago
    Good stuff! Did you use a Magic Bullet preset? If so, which one?
  • Nizar Pasalic plus 5 days ago
    Thank you!

    It's a custom made Magic Bullet look.
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  • Nathan Kane plus 3 days ago
    An extremely beautiful and incredibly powerful story. Thank you for sharing this story Nizar!
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  • Miklavz Grmek 3 days ago
    Bravo, zelo lepo!
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  • LCTV plus 3 days ago
    This is gonna be one of my best telling stories references. Thank you for sharing it. I feel diferent now. Much better. Good luck!
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  • Christopher Agath 3 days ago
    Made me shed a few tears, congrats on brilliant piece of film
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  • AMAZING ! excellent work.
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  • Abdo Hajj 3 days ago
    Authenticity is amazing, a great piece--a great man.
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  • SinaBasila 3 days ago
    I really enjoyed this film! I liked that there was very little dialogue (such as when Abdulah visited Sehaveta in the home and their chat was covered with music). It made the video feel non-intrusive in his environment. Very atmospheric.
    I have recently been thinking that I should have made such a film about a wonderful family friend who recently died. He was an amazing man, but I missed my chance.
    I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work in the future.
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  • Ibrahim7R 3 days ago
    Loved it! great work !
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  • Shane Caffrey plus 3 days ago
    Really well made, great work he it will be a memory of him for ever
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  • sejios 2 days ago
    That is probably the definition of love I would say! So emotional, rousing and the visualising keeps it more than real! Very well done, to be honest. Life is kind of an art form, and that experienced Gentleman created his life right!
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  • S B 2 days ago
    I'm man enough to admit it, I cried
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  • Superlative Hype plus 2 days ago
    Amazing! Just posted it on my blog: thewallweallpainted.com/between-days/

    Thanks!
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  • Storyteller 2 days ago
    Really Amazing.
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  • Miran Kevic plus 2 days ago
    Hvala :) Taman mi je trebalo ovo pogledati, pozdrav iz Norveske.
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  • Travers Nisbet 2 days ago
    really incredible.
    how did you subtitle it? did you use a separate application?
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  • Ted van Dopperen 2 days ago
    sorry to hear about your grandpa I salute you for doing this and making such a beautiful ode to your grandparents to capture their unconditional love for each other no matter how far they were seperated.

    simply amazing

    Ted
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  • Lukas Rapp 2 days ago
    amazing....
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  • Gus Ruballo plus 2 days ago
    left with nothing to say but beautiful and a genuine sense of raw reality of the life of ordinary people that impact many without even knowing.
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