Angelina Jolie turns director,set to debut

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie's directorial debut , a controversial movie set in wartime Bosnia  is set to be released
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    The titled is "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and will be released in the United States on December 23, just in time for Oscar consideration."The film is based on  the Bosnian War, but it's also universal," Jolie said in a statement. "I wanted to tell a story of how human relationships and behavior are deeply affected by living inside a war."

Jolie, who also wrote the screenplay, last year described the then untitled movie as a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman on the eve of the 1992-95 Balkans conflict, in which 100,000 people died.

     it caused controversy in Bosnia with some female victims of sexual violence objecting to details in the plot and Bosnian authorities canceling a filming permit. As a result, some scenes scheduled to be shot in Sarajevo were moved to Budapest, Hungary.