The Pit 2019
During a troublesome shooting of a short art film about a war crime at the location where it took place, three young independent filmmakers discover they are being watched by a stranger.
During a troublesome shooting of a short art film about a war crime at the location where it took place, three young independent filmmakers discover they are being watched by a stranger.
One room. One man. One decision. Not by many words, but by pure emotion, the movie Countdown gradually, but completely overwhelms the viewer, leading one into a very intimate world of a young man, where an intense battle between his desire for life and an unbearable sense of guilt takes place.
Hamdija Šahinpašić (1914-2003) was one of those rare individuals able to memorize songs in their authentic traditional form. Šahinpašić belonged to a family known for its songs. In the early 1950's, Miodrag A. Vasiljević recorded Šahinpašić singing dozen of songs at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgrade. A 1967 publication finally included 300 of his songs, published bilingually in Bosnian and Russian. Šahinpašić himself become the focus of attention of numerous ethnomusicologists and folklorists and his repertoire was preserved on recording of good quality.
Two men - one in the West, one in the East, brothers. In both places, life is muted, solitary, nondescript. Here, windows are painted, switches rewired and cigarettes smoked; there, lengths swum, boxing matches prepared for, transactions made. What is it that links these things? Winter swimming pools, the sound of a bell, a bullet passing through bone?
A documentary about Sarajevo’s preeminent Yugoslav-era businessman and mayor, Emerik Blum, and the inner workings of his engineering company, Energoinvest.
Bosnian pop singer Dino Merlin talks about his career.
Kosevo July 19 is a DVD by Dino Merlin. It was released in January 2009. It has been recorded on July 19, on his concert in Sarajevo on stadium Kosevo, promoting his tenth studio album Ispočetka.
Totally Personal creates a historical document both droll and touching out of Begovic and his family's memories, meditations, and observations. The history begins in the communist era, continues through the war that ravaged the former Yugoslavia and into today's post-war period.
A young woman caught between love and an opportunity to study abroad; one lost wallet and a chance encounter that opens the possibility of reconciling the past and the present; two friends facing diverging choices and futures; and a call that brings two strangers together make up the four stories set against the Sarajevo skyline and told by women and of women, living in BiH today.
The action of the film follows the artist who, since the girl left him, lost his inspiration.
A broken relationship. A weekend in a city of love. A mixture of passion, hate, loneliness and revenge in an attempt to forget the things that hurt and keep the things that make it all count.
Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.
The story of Džemal Džihanović, the producer of folk music.
When Milan, now a changed man, decides to go back to his hometown one last time, he'll have to meet, "for old time's sake", with Žare, who hasn't moved an inch during the last couple of years. Envy, disappointment, brotherhood and past will all see the light of the smoke-filled bar where old friends used to drink until the wee hours.
Captain comes back from war only to find his beloved in hospital, suffering from syphilis.
Documentary about Dubioza Kolektiv.
Bosnian television sketch comedy which often parody contemporary culture and politics, performed by Enis Bešlagić and Milan Pavlović.
The oldest sister is moving abroad for college, and her younger brother and sister start a battle for her little room. They both want to move out of the big room where they sleep with their parents and finally get some privacy.
In a corner of Sarajevo, children are coming out from the schools. In a terrace, a few locals are playing chess and cards. A blast is heard, like a gunshot. A woman shouts a name. A police car arrives. An ambulance leaves. A child runs home.