In 1921, with spite, enthusiasm and the abundance of poverty, the workers of the Railways built their football club, and then the stadium where both war and peace were officially declared in Sarajevo in the 1990s. Built, demolished, and again, rebuilt - by the love of his fans. The Valley of Jars - more than a stadium.
Documentary about the sevdah band named "Zukva".
Diary inquiries collected over four years documenting the process a person goes through while exploring and getting familiar with their core existence, resulting in finding inner peace. An auto portrait serving as a mirror for anymore to reflect on it, serving as an endless field for anyone to run in it.
A short love story about a young couple, who live their own version of a love relationship, where they refuse to use redundant words in communication to leave them for each other.
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
This film follows 3 friends who were in Sarajevo during the war as they go to the US for the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Agreement, where they ask questions and consider the impact of the agreement 25 years later, having fun on the way.
Documentary about the Sarajevo rock band Foxy Heads.
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.
Captain comes back from war only to find his beloved in hospital, suffering from syphilis.
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.
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.
The story dates back to the old times, showing the culture and customs of the Bosnian people from the 19th century. Each and every family deals with such problems as land division among the offspring.
It tells about the stopping of Yugoslav National Army tanks in Polog on May 7, 1991, and depicts the events of May 7, 8, and 9, 1991. The complexity of the situation is presented. Through the interview with the actual participants, one can see the full spectrum of problems, conflicts with superiors, with ordinary protesters who, under the great rush of adrenaline, were prepared to give their lives under tank tracks.
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.
Almost 25 years after war and genocide shattered Bosnia-Herzegovina, can the country's youth show the way to reconciliation, peace, and prosperity?
It was once an Ivo the Tzar, born on the slopes of the picturesque but crisp mountains Rudnik in Serbia. Ivo dreamed of great dreams for which there is usually no place in the Balkan towns, let alone in the farmer’s countryside. The fate, however, made sure that Ivo made his Hollywood in his village Mutanj. If you think that magic realism is possible only in art, you are mistaken. Meet Ivo the Tzar and the only village with red carpet on the Balkans! The reality in there is fantastic!
In and around a house love stories intertwine. One love story leads to another. The ghosts of love are left behind to seek the answers to the same question: "What do I know about love?"
This is a film that shows portraits of three children who lived in Sarajevo during the siege. Through their stories the film tries to give a picture of youngsters who live in the war for three and a half years and their efforts to overcome the trauma. The stories are seemingly separate, but the thread that connects them is a three-year-old boy who on his tricycle constantly wanders the streets of Sarajevo, passing everywhere and always seeing everything. He takes us from one child to another, opening up before us a picture of the bizarre life of children in Sarajevo.
