Angelina Jolie Directorial Debut In Film About Bosnian War

Angelina Jolie will make her directorial debut in a fall that will begin shooting in Bosnia this fall, the actress announced over the weekend.

Jolie is reportedly scouting location in Budapest, Hungary for the film about war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. The poignant feature is described as a love story about a couple that meets on the eve of the war and are nearly torn apart when the Bosnian woman is raped by a Serbian soldier.

Angie will reportedly star in the film as well.

Upon leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday, “Angelina Jolie stated that she will be in the region working on a film this fall,” read a statement from the UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency — for which Jolie works as a Goodwill Ambassador — released on Sunday.

“The film is a love story set during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, focusing on a couple who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the war has on their relationship,” the statement continued.

Jolie stresses that the film will not carry any political messages and added that the cast would be drawn from the different ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.

The Bosnian War — 1992-1995 00 left 100,000 people dead and 2.2 million refugees and displaced persons in Bosnia, according to the UNHCR. About 113,000 people are still displaced or unable to return to their homes, the humanitarian organization says.

The Oscar-winning Changeling actress was inspired to shoot the story after visiting refugee camps in Bosnia earlier this year.

Parts of the hard-hitting movie will also be shot in Belgrade, Serbia.

The film is expected to go into production in November.