At the end of June 2022, the football club Velež celebrates 100 years of existence. Velež is a club that during its existence went through numerous ups and downs, from the banning of the club, through the golden 70s and 80s of 1900s, to the abyss again during the Yugoslavian War.
A boy and a girl meet in club's toilet. High on drugs, they walk the streets of Sarajevo aimlessly. They end up in an apartment, fooling around, making out, until this careless atmosphere is interrupted by someone else's presence.
Ena, a 10 year old girl, who lives with her young mother and grandmother, has a constant urge to eat something sweet, and she never actually gets to eat some, by the end of the day ending up having a different “culinary”experience with her friend Ado who is in the eve of moving to Frankfurt.
A short documentary about a man on dialysis who recounts moments from his life, as well that of his brother who has a habit of cleaning after others.
During WWII in Nazi-occupied Bosnia, a Muslim woman risks everything to save her Jewish friends. 50 years later the tables have turned. Inspired by a true story.
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.
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.
Made by the Sarajevo Group of Authors (SAGA), a collective created during the siege of Sarajevo, this documentary captures stories of war that occurred during the conflict.
After Sead suddenly experiences severe stomach pain, he is taken to the hospital, where the doctor tells him he needs emergency surgery.
Jasmina and Zijo live on the outskirts of Ljubljana. Zijo works as a butcher and sings Bosnian sevdalinke (love songs) and drinks out of despair. Jasmina is pregnant and wants to live a normal life.
In the spring of 1992, war separates friends and members of a rock'n'roll band from Srebrenica. Drummer Faruk leaves Srebrenica, while guitarist Samir remains in the city. In letters, they dream of a reunion until July 1995.
Bosnian pop singer Dino Merlin talks about his career.
This film deals with the atrocities of war as portrayed by a film student who spends some time working as a medic. One of the duties he performed was to carry amputated limbs to the cremation furnace. This is a film about the collective madness that engulfed Sarajevo. A one-armed boy is troubled because he can't make big, firm snowballs; a man who lost both legs demonstrates walking on his stumps... The film and the director's story help us understand the commotion and tumult that have occurred in the minds of Sarajevans.
The story centres on the people who live in a tiny village that is connected by a system of wheels and cogs. A young man, whose wheel has broken, watches this perfectly synchronised mechanism.
Old man Zaim is alone in the world and wants to change that. He is in love with his neighbor Munevera. Munevera doesn't want him. But there are those who do.
An unusual love story about two young people which is set in the divided city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Balkan war of the 1990s was the cause of the disappearance of thousands of people. Their mortal remains are in danger of remaining lost forever. Bereaved families and survivors place their hopes in excavations and in the work of science.
After begging her to come back, Azra gets her daughter Lejla back at the airport. In the car, she tells her a surprising news and takes her to an unknown place where mother and daughter will revisit their roles.
When Bosnian-Serb forces began shelling Sarajevo in 1992, an officer of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian army made an appeal to all inhabitants of the city with video cameras to "start filming, because their material would definitely influence events." Whether prompted by this call or not, many of those who possessed a camera attempted to capture the atmosphere of the besieged city, resulting in this extraordinary film. At once engaging, horrifying and funny, these "home movies" provide a stark testimony of the courageous spirit of a people under siege, trying to live "normal" lives against all odds.
In her autobiographical documentary, the young director uses cartoon impressions, photographic memories, and the various stages of baking a cake to draw the viewer into her own stream of consciousness, and using images full of kindness, tenderness, and playfulness, she deals with the sadness that began during a children's birthday party many years ago.
