Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival™

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The Kolaborator (Kolaborator)
Chris Bessounian
2007 | 14 min.
Short Fiction

Goran, a promising young soccer player, becomes a soldier as the war begins. Goran’s life transitions from one of a talented athlete to that of an executioner, virtually overnight. He becomes increasingly detached from his task, until his soccer coach and life-long friend, Asim, is led in front of him. Selected as the Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the American Pavilion.

Block #1 Screening time:
Friday, May 13 2011
7:00 PM
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$12.00.

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Piran-Pirano
Goran Vojnović
2010 | 101 min.
Feature

Antonio, an Italian, a Bosnian Veljko and a Slovenian girl, Anica, face the terror of war as children. Half a century later their paths cross again as Antonio returns to Piran to see his place of birth once more before he dies. The last days of war, fear, despair, love, and inexplicable emotions come alive again. This intriguing feature premiered in the US at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, and was screened at festivals in Slovenia, Italy and at the Cairo International Film Festival, while Mustafa Nadarevic won the award as the Best Actor at the South-East European Film Festival in Paris.

Block #1 Screening time:
Friday, May 13 2011
7:00 PM
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Tickets (for Block #1):
$12.00.

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BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

Sex Bomb
Al Mehičević
2011 | 7 min.
Short Fiction

Samantha Who, a former model and playboy bunny, converts to Islam and decides to completely change her life. The only obstacles in her way are the naked photos all over the Internet, magazines, billboards, and her boss Alex. To deal with them, Samantha Who is ready to sacrifice anything and everything.

Block #2 Screening time:
Friday, May 13 2011
9:00 PM
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Tickets (for Block #2):
$12.00.

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BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

Much Ado in Mostar
Steve Nemsick
2010 | 85 min.
Documentary

Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina is still reeling from a brutal civil war in the 90s. The Neretva river divides the city in more than one way. The east side of the river is overwhelmingly Muslim, the west side is Catholic. War may again be in the future of this country, but a group of kids - both Catholic and Muslim - come together to perform Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. They tour the Balkans to entertain and give a positive example, where they are few and far in between.

Woman in Purple (Žena u ljubičastom)
Igor Drljača
2010 | 14 min.
Short Fiction

Mirza, a young Sarajevo orphan, earns easy money by assisting a local drug dealer. Dispatched on a job one day, a chance encounter makes him painfully aware of his despicable role - but equally of the possibility of changing things for the better. “Woman in Purple” had its US premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Society and has been screened at many international festivals including the Telluride Film Festival, Brief Encounters Short Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and was a finalist at Boxurshorts 2011 in Los Angeles.

Block #3 Screening time:
Saturday, May 14 2011
4:00 PM
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Tickets (for Block #3):
$12.00.

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BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

Mother (Majka)
Elmir Jukić
2009 | 15 min.
Short Fiction

“Mother” is a film about loneliness and about an urge of a mother from Srebrenica to bring her family together once again. She cuts out the photos of her sons and her husband and creates a brand new photo, one that was never taken, a family photo that brings them all together, once again, among the roses in an imaginary heaven. This beautiful short was screened at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva as well as at the Sarajevo and Zagreb Film Festivals.

Munira
Rudi Uran
2010 | 55 min.
Documentary

Munira Subasic symbolizes ten thousand of women who survived the genocide in Srebrenica and the war in Bosnia. Striving for truth and justice, she became the first lady of the Balkans. She became the moral and real authority, the spontaneously chosen leader of the thousands. A housewife turned into a representative, a diplomat, and a president. What happens when in a Bosnian woman the Bosnian stubbornness awakes? This exceptional documentary was screened at multiple Slovenian Film Festivals, in Serbia, at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, and it is going to be screened at the Argentinian Film festival, Mujeres en Foco, in May.

Block #3 Screening time:
Saturday, May 14 2011
4:00 PM
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Tickets (Block #3):
$12.00.

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BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee

Dreams (Snovi)
Rešad Kulenović
2010 | 14 min.
Short Fiction

Weaving together memories and emotions as the line between imagination and memory, dreams and nightmares are inextricably blurred. It is a cinematic exploration of the aftermath of war, love, and the beauty of a moment. Official Selection of the Cinequest Film Festival and of the European Independent Film Festival. Snovi/Dreams was also screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival. It is currently a nominee for the Student Academy Award

Block #4 Screening time:
Saturday, May 14 2011
6:00 PM
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Tickets (Block #4):
$12.00.

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BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Short or Feature Film Nominee

Belvedere
Ahmed Imamović
2010 | 90 min.
Feature

Ruveyda is like most residents of the Belvedere refugee camp: a widow yearning to forget the tragedy of war, fifteen years after the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But unlike those around her, she spends most of her days in a bittersweet routine of caring for her extended family, and searching for the remains of her husband and son. Both of these activities offer a precarious hope, that is one day tested when her nephew is selected to participate in a reality show in a former enemy enclave. Belvedere has been screened at New York’s MoMA as part of its Global Lens series, as well as the Santa Barbara Independent and Gasparilla International Film Festivals.

Belvedere is co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2011 film series. For more information, visit
www.globalfilm.org.

Rock 'n' War
Damir Pirić
2010 | 16 min.
Short Documentary

This is a story about young people during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina; young people who chose a different model of behavior and defied the evil with music.

Block #5 Screening time:
Saturday, May 14 2011
8:00 PM
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Tickets (Block #5):
$12.00.

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BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee


	White Button (Bijelo dugme) Igor Stoimenov 2010 \| 90 min. Documentary Bijelo Dugme (White Button) was a legendary rock and roll band of the former Yugoslavia that is still enormously popular. Their concerts gathered hundreds of thousands of fans, they sold millions of albums, they were the first to scandalize the region with stories of drugs and unruly behavior… The documentary tells an epic story of sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and of course, politics during the last 15 years of Yugoslavia.		Block #5 Screening time: Saturday, May 15 2011 8:00 PM ••• Tickets (Block #5): $12.00. Online sales closed. Additional tickets available at the Box Office. BHFF™ 2011 Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film Nominee