Let There Be Colour 2020
On 8 September 2019 Sarajevo hosted its first Pride March, and this film covers its background.
On 8 September 2019 Sarajevo hosted its first Pride March, and this film covers its background.
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.
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.
Alen (30), a director from Bosnia, attends the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to his parents who were killed in a bombing of his hometown. In the same incident he was nearly fatally wounded and the sole reason he survived was the quick reaction from his neighbour at the time who urgently took him to the hospital. The two of them have not met for 26 years until this day.
After Sead suddenly experiences severe stomach pain, he is taken to the hospital, where the doctor tells him he needs emergency surgery.
During a chaotic cleaning of their apartment because of impending guests, mom Esma is berating her daughter Ena for not cleaning the “proper” way. Ena is sent to buy groceries, but on the way from the market, she gets whisked away into a magical world as she searches for the origin of a mysterious sound.
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.
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.
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.
A kung-fu tale from Bosnia and Herzegovina, spiced up with motifs, dialogues and action mas if it hails fro a Chinese movie of the kind about an unknown hero who saves the village.
This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.
The film is based on a true event that happened a long time ago in a village near Visoko (Bosnia) that no longer exists... The story seeks to bring the spirit of tradition and customs that reigned and remind of now-forgotten values.
A single mother discovers that her daughter displays signs of autism.
A short documentary about the biggest gig to date of a local band Video Holographic Sex (VHS) from Sarajevo, as they take on the big stage in Dom Mladih.
Following the promotion of his selected works, writer Edo Sokolija reveals to the young journalist the secret of his most famous work’s creation. Just as he once reconstructed a true tragic story from a forgotten proverb, now this fateful conversation brings him to the lifeline much like his own.
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.
A film that allows the main character Aleksandar Jovanović, an ordinary con man from Sarajevo, to be what he always wanted to be.
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.
A film story about sports success and brotherly love, full of emotions and memories of the time when FK Sarajevo was the champion of the former Yugoslavia on two occasions. Vahidin and Husref Musemić were each in their respective time the goal scorers and best players of the Sarajevo's champion teams.
Jaksa is a student. He spends the summer in his hometown – with friends and with Sonja. But now the summer is over, his mother voices ideas about his future, and Sonja will leave soon. The end of summer forces Jaksa to realize, to decide, and to say goodbye.