Coffee 2015
April, 2015. Tradition is the ground on which we walk, the solid, impenetrable and tired. The method has remained almost the same or not?
April, 2015. Tradition is the ground on which we walk, the solid, impenetrable and tired. The method has remained almost the same or not?
The seemingly idyllic region of Ravnice, at the north-western tip of Bosnia and on the EU's external border with Croatia, hides a dangerous past with uncleared war mines. Migrants seeking a better life, are often pushed back across the border from the EU into the surrounding woods, finding themselves lost in the village. Local villagers open the old school building to offer them unofficial, temporary shelter and safety. Despite this ongoing crisis, everyday life continues in Ravnice, marked by daily routines.
An artist decides to end his craft.
A cellar-dwelling woman talks about her life to a camera during the devastating war in Bosnia.
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.
The protagonist is a fictional character named Adem Sokolovic, a high-ranking Party official who is one day falsely accused of undermining Yugoslavia. The plot shows how he was arrested and placed in prison where he came into conflict with the warden.
Fedja is haunted by his conscience in the form of Bibek.
After Sead suddenly experiences severe stomach pain, he is taken to the hospital, where the doctor tells him he needs emergency surgery.
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.
The ancient ritual of the Bosnian Dragon Summoning is threatened by various new beliefs throughout the ages.
Documentary movie about phenomenon of rock music scene that emerged during the war in Bosnia, from 1992 until 1995.
Portraits of two sisters that meet after five years of not speaking due to a turbulent family situation
An overview of three stylistically separate, but emotionally connected episodes relating to the nature of identity of a young woman and an artist.
In Zenica, a giant steel factory belches toxic gasses into the air day and night, making the city one of the world’s most polluted, and people are dying. Samir Lemes and citizen activists from Eko Forum fight an uneven fight for change against the reckless corporation, the local politicians who focus on jobs, investments, and re-elections, and the EU who co-funds the corporation without enforcing laws and international standards. Instead, they name Zenica ‘A Green City Project’, building bicycle lanes in a city where breathing is a health hazard. A film about financial cynicism, political pragmatisk and greenwashing, in which West European countries play a surprisingly big role.
A ball spins around, stuck in the river that goes through the Grbavica neighborhood in Sarajevo.
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.
A documentary detailing the lives of the children seen in Nenad Dizdarevic's "An Awkward Age" as well as the conditions within former-Yugoslavia in the 1990s.