Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival™

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Tolerance (Tolerantia)
Ivan Ramadan
2008 | 6 min.
Animated

After a long sleep at the end of the last ice age, the hero of this story awakens from the ice and starts building a pyramid. Tolerantia is the first independent short film from Bosnia and Herzegovina made using 3D animation. It explores conflict and intolerance as essential components of human nature. The film received accolades at Huesca Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival, and was also nominated for the best short film at European Film Academy and screened at numerous film festivals in Sweden, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, South Africa, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Italy and Turkey.

Block #1 Screening time:
Friday, May 15 2009
7:00 PM
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Tickets (for Block #1):
$12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

Tractor, Love and Rock 'n' Roll (Traktor, ljubav i Rock 'n' Roll)
Branko Đurić
2008 | 105 min.
Feature

Under pressure from her father, Sylvia leaves Switzerland to go back to her village in Slovenia, in order to find herself a husband. The only record player in the village, and probably the only electric guitar in rural Slovenia of the 1960’s belongs to Breza. He persuades a local folk band to accompany him while playing rock 'n' roll for Sylvia, trying to win her heart. The film is the winner of awards Taormina Film Festival and Jecheon International Music and Film Festival.

Block #1 Screening time:
Friday, May 15 2009
7:00 PM
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Tickets (for Block #1):
$12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

BHFF™ 2009 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

I Don't Dream in German (Ne sanjam na njemačkom)
Ivana Lalović
2008 | 15 min.
Short Fiction

Seventeen year old Lejla works in a hotel restaurant in Sarajevo where she meets Miloš, a 43-year old businessman who spent his student years in Sarajevo before moving to Switzerland. At nightfall, they get closer to each other without anticipating what the next morning will bring. The film won awards at festivals in Macedonia, Australia and Switzerland and was also screened in Italy, Ukraine, Slovenia, Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, Belgium, Turkey, Russia, France, Indonesia, Serbia and the United States.

Block #2 Screening time:
Friday, May 15 2009
9:00 PM
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Tickets (for Block #2):
$12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

BHFF™ 2009 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

Razor
Al Mehičević
2008 | 12 min.
Short Fiction

During the global financial crisis Richard Dick Stevenson is running his private detention center in Australia. His only prisoner, an Afghani asylum seeker Jusuf, becomes his best companion. A sudden government decision to cut the funding for the center ends this unusual, unfolding relationship. In their surreal world, Richard's dream becomes Jusuf's nightmare, until reality takes them apart. The film will be screened at Short Film Corner organized by Cannes Film Festival, as well as St. Kilda Film Festival.

Turn Back South
Igor Borovac
2007 | 11 min.
Documentary

The film tells the stories of people from Mexico who are attempting to cross the border into the United States illegally and the border patrol agents whose task it is to stop them. It exposes the struggles and the humanity on both sides and includes an interview with Enrique Morones, founder of Border Angels. This documentary won the Third Place Documentary Prize at the CSU Media Arts Festival and was also screened at the South East European Film Festival, International Latino Festival, New York City Short Film Festival and others.

1/2
Slobodan Maksimović
2007 | 23 min.
Short Fiction

½ of a bathtub, ½ of a shutter, ½ of a balcony… this is where Nikša lives. Only a thin wall separates him from his neighbors. Clara’s everyday life starts at 4:30 in the morning when she opens the shutter, turns the radio on and starts vacuuming the apartment. All this is driving Nikša out of his mind. The film won awards at film festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and has also been screened at festivals in France, Macedonia, Kosovo, Greece, Italy, Morroco, Croatia, Poland, Slovenia and Chile.

AgapE
Slobodan Maksimović
2007 | 19.5 min.
Short Fiction

In a remote convent, nuns decide to install broadband Internet access. A young nun meets a somewhat clumsy Internet installer and forbidden love finds its way into their lives. In addition to winning awards at Mediterranean Short Film Festival of Tangier, International Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, AgapE was also screened at film festivals in Croatia, Slovenia, Portugal, Turkey, Czech Republic and Macedonia.

It's Hard To Be Nice (Teško je biti fin)
Srđan Vuletić
2007 | 102 min.
Feature

Fudo is a forty year-old taxi driver who wants to be good. He just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time: contemporary Sarajevo. Though he has elaborate plans to rise above his petty-criminal past, Fudo’s old friends have their own plans– to bring him back for one last job. Described by Variety as “an engaging, urban fairy tale,” this feature was Bosnia and Herzegovina's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the Annual Academy Awards in 2008 and a winner of prizes at the Miami Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and MedFilm Festival.

Block #3 Screening time:
Saturday, May 16 2009
5:00 PM
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Tickets (Block #3):
$12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

BHFF™ 2009 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

Believers (Vjernici)
Namik Kabil
2008 | 22 min.
Documentary

The story of multiethnic Sarajevo today sounds like an ironic and sad stereotype because it refers to the life in Sarajevo before the war, which is largely gone. Still, there are people who go against the flow, such as members of the “Pontanima” choir who gather in a Franciscan church in a suburb of Sarajevo. The film was screened at ZagrebDox.

Block #4 Screening time:
Saturday, May 16 2009
7:00 PM
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Tickets (Block #4):
$12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

BHFF™ 2009 Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee

If You Are Watching This, Mum (Ako ovo gledaš, mama)
Musafa Mustafić and Dario Novalić
2008 | 27 min.
Documentary

In 1992, in an agreement with the Italian government, 45 children from the “Ljubica Ivezić” orphanage left the besieged Sarajevo. The idea was to take them away from the war and return them home afterwards. Fifteen years later, five of them tell their stories and reveal that they never returned, that they no longer speak their mother tongue, that they feel nostalgic, have new friends and new families, and a new homeland. The film was screened at Sarajevo Film Festival, ZagrebDox and Global Investigative Journalism Conference.

Diagnosis S.B.H. (Dijagnoza S.B.H.)
Enes Zlatar
2008 | 42 min.
Documentary

On the backdrop of the contemporary music scene in Bosnia Herzegovina and interviews with musicians, Enes Zlatar asks: Which language is ‘our language'? Do Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian really differ? Is language identity? He explores these issues, leaving us to contemplate the political legacy of nationalism. Among others, the film was screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival, ZagrebDox and South European Film Festival.


	Men Still Goes To The Moon (Ljudi još uvijek idu na mjesec) Dragan Rokvić 2008 \| 12 min. Animated A science fiction story about returning to Sarajevo after a war. It is 2096 and the War for the Moon has just ended. When a Moon Traveler returns to Sarajevo, ghosts of his friends killed in the war will be there to meet him. A wrong look at the wrong time will make the gap between those who stayed and those who left unbridgeable. The film was screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival.		Block #5 Screening time: Saturday, May 16 2009 9:00 PM ••• Tickets (Block #5): $12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

The Nightguards (Čuvari noći)
Namik Kabil
2008 | 87 min.
Feature

Full of dark humor, Kabil’s first dramatic feature reflects on postwar Sarajevo through the microcosm of two watchmen discussing their worries as they work through the night. Geraldina and Mahir have been married for three years and they have no children. One night, Mahir becomes convinced that he is pregnant and starts throwing up. His best friend Brizla suspects something is wrong with Mahir. The resolution comes with the morning coffee. In addition to the Venice Film Festival and International Film Festival Bratislava, the film was screened at other film festivals in Sweden, Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia.

Q&A will be available with the film director Namik Kabil after the screening

Block #5 Screening time:
Saturday, May 16 2009
9:00 PM
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Tickets (Block #5):
$12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office.

BHFF™ 2009 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee