About Sixth Annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival™ 2009
May 15-16, 2009

2007 was a groundbreaking year for the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF). Moving to a more ambitious venue, the fourth annual BHFF took place at Tribeca Cinemas, year-round home of the Tribeca Film Festival. Attracting over 400 visitors, the 2007 selection consisted of twelve films, representing a variety of genres and categories ranging from feature, short and documentary film such as “All for Free” (Antonio Nuic), “Armin” (Ognjen Svilicic), “The Border Post” (Rajko Grlic), “Statement 710399” (Refik Hodzic), “In the Name of the Son” (Harun Mehmedinovic) and many others.

It was actor Uliks Fehmiu, one of the leading roles in “Well Tempered Corpses” (BHFF 2006), who announced the audience award winners in front of a packed theatre after the last screening: “Grbavica” by Jasmila Zbanic (BHFF 2007 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film), and “Carnival” by Alen Drljevic (BHFF 2007 Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film).

 

Both awards were presented in memory of Benjamin Filipovic, a renowned film director, a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, and the former president of the Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to his contributions to Bosnian-Herzegovinian cinematography, history, arts and culture and his support of the activities of the diaspora, Mr. Filipovic is credited with providing the inspiration for the first BHFF.

After the awards were presented, audience members, guests and BHFF organizers joined to celebrate yet another successful year for BHFF at Tribeca Lounge.

For participating film and director information see the 2008 program.

“Golden Apple” awards were designed by the New York-based Bosnian-American artist Aida Sehovic.

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