[1][2] The film narrates Joaquim Sapinho's experience in Bosnia during and after the Yugoslav Wars.

During its editing process, Sapinho shot another feature, The Policewoman, which would be released first, in 2003, becoming his second as director.

Delaying Bosnia Diaries' release to 2005, the two films were post-produced simultaneously.

They would influence each other, both in style as in theme, as Bosnia Diaries edition would suffer a complete conceptual change in consequence of the things Sapinho lived and discovered throughout the shooting and editing of The Policewoman, whose, on the other hand, darkness and realism are clearly[citation needed] echoes of the Bosnian War experienced by Sapinho, which would cause a great change on his vision of the world.

[3] The film is a cinematic reflexion on war, on Europe and on civilization, structured in the form of a film-diary, in which Joaquim Sapinho reports his experiences lived in the two times he went to Bosnia.