Thunder Spiral (2021)

Years after Daniel J Gerstle interviewed survivors of Bosnia's war time massacres, he returns to witness the excavation of a mass grave; this time, to "interview" those who did not survive. He moves into the back room of a cafe in Sarajevo's old town and becomes close with a family of survivors who have rebuilt a happy life. From here, he looks back at years of working through war zones and what he learned from survivors about forgiveness, post-traumatic stress, and moral injury. Through some surrealistic and poetic sequences, Gerstle seeks to reproduce how survivors experience post-traumatic stress emotionally.