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May 19, 2006
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6:00 PM
Festival Reception
Gallery at the Courthouse Theater
Festival Opening
7:00 PM
Block #1
Paycheck (short)
Survived 'n Lived Through One More Day (short)
I See You My Friend (short documentary)
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$12 Buy online
$10 Buy at the box office
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8 :30 PM
Block #2
If I wasn't Muslim (short)
Go West (feature)
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$12 Buy online
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6:00 PM
Block #3
Not So Humble Pie (short documentary)
Asim Free Man (short documentary)
Boy From a War Movie (short documentary)
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$12 Buy online
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7:30 PM
Well Tempered Corpses (feature)
$12 Buy online
$10 Buy at the box office
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9:30 PM
Block #4
On Wednesdays (short)
Totally Personal (feature documentary)
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$12 Buy online
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May 21, 2006
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4:00 PM
Block #5
Frame For the Picture of My Homeland (short)
Srebrenica 2005 (short)
Justice Unseen (feature documentary)
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$12 Buy online
$10 Buy at the box office
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5:45 PM
Block #6
Counterpoint For Her (short documentary)
The Dream Job (feature documentary)
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$12 Buy
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7:30 PM
Borderline Lovers ( feature documentary)
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Paycheck
(Prva plata)
Alen Drljevic
2005 | 13 min.
Short
Nominated for the Best Short Film for the 2005 European Film Academy
Awards, ”Paycheck” is set in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Not far from Sarajevo, which, on the surface only, is seemingly
back to regular life, an illegal bet shop has been set up. A colorful
group of characters place bets on the life or death of motorcycle
riders who risk their lives riding through a minefield.
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Friday 6:00pm (Block #1)
•••
Tickets (for Block #1):
$12.00 Buy
online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience Award for the
Best Short or Feature Film Nominee
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Survived
‘n Lived Through One More Day (Opst’o i ost’o
jedan dan)
Alma Becirovic
2002 | 12 min.
Short
55-year-old Suada Bajramovic lives with her son, her daughter-in-law
and her grandson. Her son, Alen, was wounded during the war and
returns home to live with her, disabled and unable to work. To
support her family, Suada risks her life on a daily basis as a
mine expert, clearing the minefields which still cover some parts
of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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I
See You My Friend (Vidimo se prijatelju)
Cazim Dervisevic
2005 | 23 min.
Short Documentary
“I See You My Friend” is the inspiring story of Robert
and Halid, two teenagers living in the turbulence of adolescence,
shared by many of their generation. The story of their friendship
is only seemingly typical, as Robert and Halid are both blind,
but together they help each other overcome life’s many challenges.
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Showtime:
Friday 6:00pm (Block #1)
•••
Tickets (for Block #1):
$12.00 Buy
online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee
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If
I wasn’t Muslim
Damir Niksic
2005 | 7 min.
Short
“If I wasn’t Muslim” an artistic video piece
that recently took Sarajevo by storm, is a short monologue in
the spirit of the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” It
comments on the complexity of religious and cultural identity
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, speaking out against stereotypes and
promoting tolerance. This video was an installation at the New
Temple Gallery in Sarajevo, a former Jewish synagogue. |
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Friday 8:30pm (Block #2)
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Tickets (for Block #2):
$12.00 Buy
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Go
West
Ahmed Imamovic
2005 | 90 min.
Feature
“Go West” is a thought-provoking and groundbreaking
film about a gay couple. On the eve of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Milan, a Serb student from a patriarchal community, and Kenan,
a Muslim cellist, fall in love. Trapped during the siege by the
Serb forces, the two flee to Milan's home village where they take
shelter, waiting for an opportunity to escape to the Netherlands.
Witnessing the brutality of Serb militia toward Muslims, Milan
disguises Kenan as a woman and presents him as his wife. As a
first film in Bosnia to address issues of homosexuality in the
context of recent war and Bosnian social traditions, it has spurred
much controversy. The renowned actor Rade Šerbedžija
plays one of the leading roles. |
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Showtime:
Friday 8:30pm (Block #2)
•••
Tickets (for Block #2):
$12.00 Buy
online
$10.00 Buy at box office
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Not
So Humble Pie
Bojana Zezelj and Dejan Kovacevic
2004 | 15 min.
Short Documentary
Burek, Bosnia's much loved traditional dish, has recently become
a favorite of New York City gourmets. The story of burek's popularity
in America is close to the heart of the Bosnian and Balkan expatriate
community living in the United States, comforted to find the beloved
dish so far from home. Featuring members of the Bosnian community
in New York who struggle to preserve their customs and identity
while settling into a new environment. |
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Showtime:
Saturday 6:00pm (Block #3)
•••
Tickets (Block #3):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee |
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Asim
Free Man
Rusmir Agacevic
2004 | 22 min.
Short Documentary
“Asim Free Man” is a documentary about Asim Safic,
who for almost 40 years has played rock and country music in a
band with his friends in Travnik, a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Asim works as a garbage truck driver, lives modestly, and has
bad memories from the recent war. In spite of this harsh reality,
he rehearses everyday with his bandmates and practices with enthusiasm,
finding peace and solace in music. |
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Showtime:
Saturday 6:00pm (Block #3)
•••
Tickets (Block #3):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
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Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee
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Boy
From a War Movie (Djecak iz ratnog filma)
Semsudin Gegic
2004 | 27 min.
Short Documentary
“Boy From A War Movie” tells the story of Alen, a
boy whose mother was raped by a Serb army soldier during the war.
Alen is abandoned soon after his birth and later adopted. At age
ten, he learns the truth about himself and starts identifying
with a hero of the Italian movie “Mirko,” which is
based upon a story similar to his. “Boy From A War Movie”
is dedicated to children born under similar circumstances during
the Bosnian war, adopted and dispersed throughout the world.
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Showtime:
Saturday 6:00pm (Block #3)
•••
Tickets (Block #3):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee |
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Well
Tempered Corpses (Dobro uštimani mrtvaci)
Benjamin Filipovic
2005 | 94 min.
Feature
Two coroners at the Sarajevo city morgue bet on the number of
dead bodies that will come in by a certain time. With an array
of unusual circumstances leading up to the delivery of several
different corpses, the coroners aren’t prepared for the
bizarre and colorful group of relatives, friends and associates
arriving to claim the bodies. A darkly humorous tale set in post-war
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Well Tempered Corpses” weaves
together stories of a diverse group of people and relationships.
It is a quirky and audacious look at the pursuit of the tenuous
“Bosnian Dream.” |
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Showtime:
Saturday 7:30pm
Tickets:
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee
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On
Wednesdays (Srijedom)
Alma Becirovic
2004 | 14 min.
Short
Panja is a middle-aged, lonely man, whose daily routine suddenly
(and positively) changes when tango lessons, broadcast as a radio
show, enter his life. This charming film won one of the top awards
in the student films competition at the goEast Film Festival in
Wiesbaden, Germany. |
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Showtime:
Saturday 9:30pm (Block #4)
•••
Tickets (Block #4):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee
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Totally
Personal (Sasvim licno)
Nedzad Begovic
2005 | 72 min.
Feature Documentary
Strikingly original, “Totally Personal” is a heart-warming
documentary about the experiences of filmmaker Nedžad Begovic,
who reflects on his life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, portraying
his family, friends and personal events. The film incorporates
intimate details of his family’s survival during the war:
his mother, who used to cut the toes off old shoes and burn them
for fuel, and the pear tree in their garden that served as the
only source of vitamin C for his children. Despite the tragedy
that has befallen their country, Begovic tells his story with
an uplifting and wry sense of humor. |
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Showtime:
Saturday 9:30pm (Block #4)
•••
Tickets (Block #4):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
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Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee |
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Frame
For the Picture of My Homeland (Ram za sliku moje domovine)
Elmir Jukic
2005 | 15 min.
Short
On the verge of war in the spring of 1992, the Eid feast in a
small Bosnian town is underway. The entire town is celebrating,
Serbs, Muslims, and Croats. In the war’s aftermath, the
International War Crimes Tribunal is searching for the war criminals
still at large, and a picture from the 1992 feast is the only
available document that shows what one of the criminals looks
like. The film received Special Mention as the Best Short Film
at the 2005 Sarajevo Film Festival. |
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Showtime:
Sunday 4:00pm (Block #5)
•••
Tickets (Block #5):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee
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Srebrenica
2005 (Što te nema?)
Aida Sehovic and Gates Gooding
2005 | 5 min.
Short
“Što te nema?” (Why are you not
here?) is a short and poignant film featuring an art installation
which was set up in July 2005 at the United Nations to commemorate
the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. |
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Showtime:
Sunday 4:00pm (Block #5)
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Justice
Unseen (Slijepa pravda)
Aldin Arnautovic and Refik Hodzic
2004 | 58 min.
Feature Documentary
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
was established to provide justice to victims of war crimes committed
in the region during the nineties. Eleven years and more than
$830 million later with fewer than one hundred people convicted,
“Justice Unseen” examines whether the ICTY achieved
what it was set up to do or whether it was just an expensive legal
experiment. The documentary, directed by a former ICTY official,
also looks at how survivors of atrocities in two Bosnian communities,
Prijedor and Konjic, view the work of The Hague Tribunal. |
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Showtime:
Sunday 4:00pm (Block #5)
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Tickets (Block #5):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
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Counterpoint
For Her (Kontrapunkt za nju)
Danijela Majstorovic
2004 | 30 min.
Short Documentary
“Counterpoint For Her” follows several men and women
involved in the postwar expansion of the sex trafficking trade
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including a local girl who was sold into
the trade by her brother’s friend. Since 1995 around $7
billion has been made and thousands of girls from the neighboring
Eastern European countries have been physically and mentally abused
and forgotten. “Counterpoint For Her” tells their
stories and looks at the social and economic conditions that have
allowed human trafficking to flourish in the Balkans. |
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Showtime:
Sunday 5:45pm (Block #6)
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Tickets (Block #6):
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
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Dream Job (Posao snova)
Danijela Majstorovic
work-in-progress screening | 51 min.
Feature Documentary
“The Dream Job” deals with the experience of women
in the (turbo)folk music industry. Rather than reproducing the
usual stereotypes, it promises to be “the first film treatment
that takes on the phenomenon in a way that respects its complexity.”
Majstorovic interviews legendary women performers such as Lepa
Brena and Hanka Paldum, as well as young girls hoping to break
into the show business, while also analyzing managers, their profit,
and the way they control women's careers. |
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Sunday 5:45pm (Block #6)
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Borderline
Lovers (Ljubav na granici)
Miroslav Mandic
2005 | 84 min.
Feature Documentary
Three couples dare to be in love, against the odds of their families,
war and ethnicity. The six are likeable and often humorous characters
as they try to gently convince their families that love conquers
all. A film about frontiers, which a decade ago were frontlines,
“Borderline Lovers” won the Human Rights Jury Special
Mention at the 2005 Sarajevo Film Festival, and the Golden Dragon
at Krakow International Film Festival, and several other awards
at major short film festivals. |
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Showtime:
Sunday 7:30pm
Tickets:
$12.00 Buy online
$10.00 Buy at box office
BHFF™ 2006 Audience
Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee |
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Animated films:
Rufus and Tex,
Anton Huml
Halt Disney Give Me Five,
(picture left) Berin Tuzlic
I Don’t Give Money,
Berin Tuzlic
Hero TV Man,
Berin Tuzlic
Dirty Mind Groove,
Ranko Andelic
Emina,
Jurinko Rajic
Mostarski letaci,
Jurinko Rajic |
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