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Tag Archives: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fuse AKA Gori Vatra (2003) Pjer Zalica, Enis Beslagic, Bogdan Diklic, Sasa Petrovic
In the Bosnian town of Tesanj, not long after the Balkan war, land mines claim victims, corruption is rampant Read More »
A Blast AKA I Ekrixi (2014) Syllas Tzoumerkas, Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini
Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Read More »
A Stranger (2013) Bobo Jelcic, Bogdan Diklic, Nada Djurevska, Ivana Roscic
When Slavko’s old friend Djulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. Read More »
Djeca / Children of Sarajevo (2012) Aida Begic, Marija Pikic, Ismir Gagula, Bojan Navojec, Drama
Rahima (23) and Nedim (14) are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, including in the way it treats children of the people who were killed fighting for the freedom of their city.
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Slovenka / A Call Girl (2009) Damjan Kozole, Nina Ivanisin, Peter Musevski, Primoz Pirnat, Drama
Alexandra is a student from Krsko, a small town in Slovenia, while she studies the English language in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.
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Karaula / The Border Post (2006) Rajko Grlic, Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Action, Comedy, Drama
A small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control…
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Savrseni krug / The Perfect Circle (1997) Ademir Kenovic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Almedin Leleta, Almir Podgorica, Drama, War
An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
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Grbavica / Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006) Jasmila Zbanic, Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Drama
Set against the backdrop of a former Yugoslavia of the nineteen-nineties, this is a single mother’s anguish of how one must deal with truths and how to cope with a war’s terrible past. With a twelve year old daughter to bring-up, both mother and child come head-to-head when a school trip is in the air and complications and rude awakenings arise from the ashes’ of the cold and callous days of conflict, xenophobia and its secrets.
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Nebo iznad krajolika / Skies Above the Landscape (2006) Nenad Djuric
At the top of the rugged Bosnian mountain, young shepherd Mehmed patiently watches over his cows and lovingly carves the figure of a woman in a piece of wood. Almost on cue, a novice paraglider unexpectedly falls from the sky. Deborah speaks only French and he speaks only Bosnian, but they tentatively communicate, and she accepts the hospitality offered by Mehmed’s mom: a bed and a meal of “mountain-style” tripe. Love soon bridges the cultural divide, and the story develops into a series of hilarious escapades showcasing the beautiful landscape and local sounds
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