When I Was a Hodja

When I Was a Hodja 1970

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During the 1990s, an unnamed protagonist lives with his dying mother and elderly father in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Dobrinja. One seemingly ordinary day in 1992, the Serbian siege of the city begins and he ends up being trapped within the confines of the neighborhood of Grbavica, where he hides away from the enemy forces and artillery fire in a small apartment owned by his family. During his stay in Grbavica, he quickly bonds with a young man he calls The Musician and falls in love with a young woman whose forced to prostitute herself in order to be able to provide care for her ailing grandmother.

1970

My Prisoner

My Prisoner 1994

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An investigation on the memory of an event that occurred on April 3, 1994 ithe midst of the Bosnian War.

1994

(H)omer's dream

(H)omer's dream 2025

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In a classroom governed by authority and obligation, a student is assigned to create a film based on The Iliad and The Odyssey. As pressure mounts, the film slips into his imagination, where Homer appears as a contemporary artist exploited by a ruthless cultural industry that turns vulnerability, suffering, and even death into marketable content. The short film explores the cost of obedience and the quiet collapse of artistic freedom.

2025

O(P)STANAK

O(P)STANAK 2025

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Documentary film "O(P)STANAK", a story about music, resistance and the power of togetherness during the 1201 days of the siege of Bihać. The film follows the group Okus Meda and Bihać musicians who, in the hardest days of the war - amidst shells and ruins - created music that brought hope, laughter and humanity. Through archival footage, honest interviews and testimonies, the film reveals how music became the mainstay of a city that did not have much, but had a soul. This film is more than a document of a time. This is Duratović's personal dedication to his father and the band Okus Meda, the people who shaped his life with their example, deeds and songs.

2025

Siva

Siva 2019

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Every scene was filmed from a window. No actors. Real facial expressions. Real emotions.

2019

Blue Sava Dreams

Blue Sava Dreams 2018

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After 7 years since “Tokyo-Morava”, Moku and Bekim were filming at Brčko. Based on “Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn”.

2018

You Are the Only Boss in This House

You Are the Only Boss in This House 2006

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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.

2006

How a Hotel Became a Home

How a Hotel Became a Home 2022

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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.

2022

Words

Words 2023

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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.

2023

Land of Mine

Land of Mine 2023

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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

2023

Anatomy of Hypomania

Anatomy of Hypomania 2022

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A retired anatomy professor lives in his cabinet on Medicine Faculty in Belgrade. He travels every week to other country to teach anatomy at Private University in small town. In 10 square meters room he continues on doing research in neuroscience, while he spends his free time with his daughters.

2022

Little Star Rising

Little Star Rising 1970

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Little Star Rising is an empowering journey a woman takes, all the while wearing her hijab, towards the finish line of the Ironman triathlon and the liberation of her true identity.

1970

A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon 1998

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A film that allows the main character Aleksandar Jovanović, an ordinary con man from Sarajevo, to be what he always wanted to be.

1998

Self Reflection

Self Reflection 2015

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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.

2015

The Shovel

The Shovel 1997

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An artist decides to end his craft.

1997

Wild Ducks

Wild Ducks 2010

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The action takes place in the Bosnian countryside during 1970s. It is a web of time distance, customs, a modest but happy life, neighborly attitude and care, as well as dramatic plot that culminates in the second half of the film.

2010

Srdjo

Srdjo 2007

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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.

2007

Jadranka

Jadranka 2016

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A former Yugoslavian and Japanese singing star, painter, refugee turned stateless, beloved poet of unrequited love. It is not well-known that she loves wild guitar, along with experimental and ambient music, Jackson Pollock, and that she still dreams in Japanese. Since the accident on a concert in Japan in 2011, she has been suffering from progressive withering away of muscles. The movie is a collection of fragments from her life, told in a sickbed during her three years of battling the incurable illness.

2016