Qali Nur

How do you keep a hotel running during a war, in a besieged city and on a location that is surrounded by snipers?

This documentary tells the remarkable true story of Mustafa, Ismet, and Faruk, three men who worked at hotel Holiday Inn in Sarajevo during the city’s brutal siege from 1992 to 1995, the longest siege of a capital in modern history. The hotel remained open and became a base for foreign journalists reporting on the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thirty years later, this film explores how survival under siege shaped them, their sons, and the generations of Bosnians who inherited the trauma of war.