The first post-war feature film for children in BiH "The Secret of the School Basement", by Prijedor academic painter Zoran Radonjic, which signed the script, directed and camera, premiered at the Prijedor Theater. The story of the film, which defines the line between good and evil, begins the moment when students discover the secret of a school fireman, a self-proclaimed alchemist searching for a magic stone.
Portrait of family members during isolation with limited technical resources (phone recording).
Everybody knows that 130,000 prisoners are held behind barbed wires in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Is it enough to bring them an humanitarian aid so that they can die without being starved any longer?
How well do we remember the war? Is it hard for us to talk about it? Do we start remembering suddenly when talking about it? The film investigates the trauma, but not aiming at human pain. On the contrary, this film attempts to open the abysses of the war denial, which have become a dominant, but silent dimension of everyday life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After more than 20 years of not acting, a former child actor ventures deep into the forest in the middle of the night with the power of his faith and body to try to overcome collective war trauma and finally feel fearless. But is it even possible to heal after so many dead bodies in similar settings and the blurry VHS footage of executions we grew up watching on the news?
In the world of Bosnian bullfighting, women are rarely seen in the audience, let alone in the arena. Martina Batista is a 17-year-old girl who decided to take on the burden of her family tradition and step into the arena herself. She made that decision when she was 12 years old and has been a regular winner with three of her bulls. We follow her daily routine and learn about the reasons behind her decision to take that path and her attitude towards this sport. Through one of the fights in the arena, we see how this very male-dominated culture treats a young girl.
Documentary about Bosnian writer Dževad Karahasan.
Movie about legendary football player, Josip Katalinski Skija (1948-2011). He played for F.C. Zeljeznicar from 1965 until 1975. He collected 41 caps and scored 10 goals for Yugoslavia national team.
Documentary about the sevdah band named "Zukva".
The story of a father trying to find out what happened to his son who slipped out of his hand and disappeared during the Srebrenica genocide is in fact a story of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country permanently scarred by war crimes and their legacy.
The author uses his home movies and photographs taken at significant moments of his life that had shaped him into the man he is today. The film presents his innocent childhood, his love for his profession, his first encounters with camera and his experiences during the war that forced him out of his home. The war turned a boy into a soldier and left victims in its wake - both death and alive - as well as memories that provoke tears and anger, but also laughter. The war also defined his take on life and almost destroyed his dreams.
Where does the feeling of guilt come from? Starting from the account of a medical condition, Farah Hasanbegović resorts to animation to search for the origin of those sensations that accompany us throughout our life, whether we want them to or not. Through eloquent pencil strokes, Ribs is a sensorial meditation on the material dimension of our feelings.
In an attempt to keep the love of her partners, the young girl ties up their hair into braids.
The movie features three war veterans from Maglaj, who give account of war time developments and post-war reconciliation in this municipality
About the life of a Bosnian Muslim in the 1950s. Mujo doesn’t want to get married since he was too young. Later, when he grew into a young man, he still refuses to get close to any of the girls who want him. Until one day Nizama came from Vareš to visit her aunt who lives in Mujo’s neighborhood.
In a public park, plastic bags are rolling in the wind.
Where does tolerance reside? Where does individual end and collective begin? And who claims the privilege to grant or deny rights?
Famous Travnik Gymnasium building after the war in Bosnia has been divided into 2 schools. Christmas football tournament is the only thing that unites children from both schools.
Film uses the aesthetics of cell phone cameras, which the director used after he was diagnosed with angina and his doctors recommended fast walking. He has transformed the 3,000 kilometers he walked over three years into a collage of playful, experimental, and lyric moments and family and social situations, all seen with a sense of tenderness and irony.
