‘Who’s the man who raped my mother?’

Alen Muhic, who was conceived when his mother was raped by a soldier in wartime, says he would not have had the courage to search for his parents were it not for the film cameras that followed him.

His painful quest is documented in An Invisible Child’s Trap, the second documentary feature about Muhic, the son of a Muslim Bosnian woman and a Bosnian Serb soldier who repeatedly raped her during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

In Bosnian film-maker Semsudin Gegic’s first film about Muhic in 2005, the boy became the first child to publicly speak out against the stigma surrounding him and others like him in Bosnia for having been conceived by rape during the war.