Heart of Stone 2023
Mirjana returns home to attend her mother’s funeral. Now, surrounded by stone in a place where time seems to have come to a halt, she has to face her father and his expectations as well as her own emotions and feelings of guilt.
Mirjana returns home to attend her mother’s funeral. Now, surrounded by stone in a place where time seems to have come to a halt, she has to face her father and his expectations as well as her own emotions and feelings of guilt.
Lonely self-conscious girl spends her days drinking wine on the roof and waiting for her boyfriend to come home. She can sense that something is wrong - he suddenly got cold. Lack of sex and his friendship with another woman worsens her body image. We watch what happens to them that "one more day" that they stay together.
A documentary filmed by Sahin Šišić in 1992-93, during the siege of Sarajevo.
Documentary about the sevdah band named "Zukva".
Documentary about the Sarajevo rock band Foxy Heads.
Glasgow during lockdown: Empty streets, empty roads, playparks devoid of life with a population hiding indoors. Juxtaposed alongside this footage is an audio voiceover read by a survivor of the 1992 – 1995 Sarajevo siege in Bosnia. They describe their city in lockdown, day to day life, their challenges, thoughts, fears and their hopes. The voiceover could easily be that of a Glaswegian in Spring 2020. There are striking similarities between this wartime siege and the lockdown experienced in Glasgow. Just as in Sarajevo, our freedom of movement was very limited – we couldn't travel, go to pubs and restaurants, children couldn't go to school.
Mevlo Alić is a shepherd from a small village Vozuća in Bosnia and Herzegowina. In order to earn enough money for a diecent living, he breeds and sells his sheep to nearby customers. With time, sheep breeding becomes less of a job and a source of income and becomes more of a family enviroment. Mevlo takes care of his sheep as any parent figure would to their child. Mevlo takes his sheep walking, talks to them, drinks coffee with them enjoying every moment of his simple yet fulfilled life. After a crippled sheep Bjelko is born, Mevlo decides to take intensive care of him knowing Bjelko wouldn't be financially benefitial, fulfilling every human beings need – to feel needed, to have a sense of belonging.
46-year-old Džemo lives in a village with his mother, father and brother. He cares for ten cows every day thereby earning a living for his family. Džemo’s day starts and ends with a pushcart, his constant companion on daily more than 20-kilometer-runs. His boyhood dream was to take part in large running events which is why he always applies for city and mountain races. Despite hard labour demanded by a life in the rural area, and the fact that he competes against professional athletes, Džemo wins gold medals regularly.
In a public park, plastic bags are rolling in the wind.
A story of the Balkan hip hop talent Denis (Denis Dafinic) that struggles to survive amidst hard working physical labor and the desire to make it with good music. Somewhere along, he encounters the ordinary problems of the Balkans - crime, politics and corruption. The main character Denis is in the center of this as he tries to face the harsh reality of life and the challenge of making your dreams come true.
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.
SARAJ’VO describes the real size of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its seductive spirit and scope of the microcosm that it borders. Mustafa Mustafić, the legendary cameraman, filmed the dedication to the city where he spent his life. Regardless of the long and extremely prolific career as a film and television cameramen, Mustafa Mustafić, Pujdo as his colleagues affectionately call him, feels that there are many untold stories of Sarajevo, rituals and undiscovered perspectives on our common and unusual days. THIS IS THE CITY sums up everything about this very unusual environment, together with its inhabitants, guests and tourists.
A Bosnian TV war drama based on true events.
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?
A short documentary film focused on the children of Yugoslav workers living abroad, particularly in France.
Documentary, featuring a project of the artist Irena Pejcic. The Project adresses the situation of landmines and their consequenzes to the population in general, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A film essay MINOTAUR covers 15 years of the author's life. Through various formats of private archives, from cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, segments from the author's previous films, vacation videos, we experience a Proustian journey through fragments of the recorded and cathartic confrontation with transience, dear people, poetry of small things and growing up.
In 1990 a group of young students from the Art High school in Sarajevo forms the band Protest. The same year they have their first concert under that name and shortly after that they enter a recording studio and record their first demo. 30 years later, after the war, 5 albums, a dozen of hits, countless gigs, and plenty of line-up changes, Protest still exists and works. This is a tale about love, music, and rebellion in the complex Balkan reality, symbolically titled PROTEST IN CARIESLAND.
This documentary tells about the incident which happened on Januar 21, 1993 in the town of Trebinje (Republika Srpska), when a local Serb, Srđan Aleksić, aged 27, stood in defense of Bosniak Muslim Alen Glavović, who was attacked by four soldiers of entity's armed forces. Infuriated rowdies then attacked Aleksić himself, who 6 days later succumbed to fatal wounds. It is a story about one man's heroism during the times of his nation's moral low point.
An overview of three stylistically separate, but emotionally connected episodes relating to the nature of identity of a young woman and an artist.