Is a story of a young woman from Sarajevo whose life is shattered the day a young soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things.

Rounded up with the other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse in a remote region of Bosnia, she quickly learns the rules of camp life. The day she is picked out to ‘entertain’ the soldiers, the real nightmare begins. Stripped of everything she ever had and facing the constant threat of death, she struggles against all the hatred she sees around her.  In a final act of courage or madness, she decides to make one last stand: to dare to be herself.  And this simple act saves her life.

It’s when she realises that surviving means more than staying alive that she has to make a decision that will change her life forever.

As If I Am Not There is a modern war story that explores love, identity and the connections between us.

- 8th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards- Turkey (2010) Winners for Best Director, Best Script and Best Film

- Phoenix Film Festival 2011, USA - Won Best World Picture

- Cinema for Peace Berlin 2011, Germany - Nomination for the Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year

- Istanbul Film Festival 2011, Turkey – Won The Council of Europe Film Award “FACE”
- Sarajevo Film Festival 2010, Bosnia and Hercegovina – Section: Special Screenings
- Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Canada – Discovery Programme
- Haifa Inernational Film festival 2010, Israel –Programme: East of the West
- Zagreb Film Festival 2010, Croatia –Programme: Foreign, Yet ours
- Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011, USA –Programme: New Voices/New Visions
- Jameson Irish Film Festival 2011, Ireland
- San Luis Obispo International Film Festival 2011, USA
- International Film Festival Breda, 2011, Netherlands
- International Women's Film Festival of Creteil 2011, France
- Worldfest Houston Independent International Film Festival 2011, USA
- International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul 2011, South Korea