Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival™

Halima's Path
(Halimin put)
Director: Arsen Ostojić

Winner of BHFF™ 2013 Jury Award for Best Feature Film

Winner of BHFF™ 2013 Audience Award for Best Picture

Halima, a widow, is trying to salvage the bones of her son, who was killed in the war years ago. However, a deeply personal dilemma is preventing her from claiming them. In this emotional drama inspired by true events, Ostojić depicts a heart-wrenching story of motherhood and a nation struggling to find closure. Halima's Path has won numerous awards at festivals around the world. It premiered in New York City at the 2013 BHFF.
Baggage (Prtljag)
Director: Danis Tanović

Winner of BHFF™ 2013 Jury Award for Best Short Film

Having been away for many years, Amir returns to Bosnia and Herzegovina to locate and bury the remains of his parents, who were were murdered during the war. Beside a ruined house in his hometown, Amir finds a forgotten friend who knows more about him than he does about himself. Baggage, a film from Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter Danis Tanovic, has screened at a number of film festivals in Europe and beyond, and made its New York City debut at the 2013 BHFF.
Zizi

Director: Nedžad Begović

Winner of BHFF™ 2013 Jury Award for Best Documentary Film

A documentary film about a native Sarajevan and consummate storyteller. In this amusing short film, the eponymous Zizi recounts past escapades and adventures, fantastical dreams, and things as he had once hoped would come to pass. Zizi also enjoys billiards, and sees distinct parallels between life in Bosnia and Herzegovina and his beloved game of strategy and calculation. Narrated by Zizi himself and brilliantly visualized by Begovic, Zizi is a nuanced and heart-warming look at Bosnian society.
Children of Sarajevo
(Djeca)
Director: Aida Begić

BHFF™ 2013 Jury's Honorable Mention

Rahima and her younger brother Nedim are orphans of the Bosnian war and are living in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass. After crime-prone adolescent years, Rahima has found comfort in Islam and hopes her brother will follow in her footsteps. But everything changes the day Nedim gets into a fistfight at school with the son of a local strongman, and Rahima learns just how much trouble he is in.Djeca competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Special Distinction of the Jury.

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GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS FOR HALIMA’S PATH, BAGGAGE, AND ZIZI AT THE TENTH ANNUAL BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN FILM FESTIVAL (BHFF)

NEW YORK CITY, June 2013 – Halima's Path (Halimin Put), a feature film by Arsen Ostojić, Baggage, a short film by Danis Tanović, and Zizi, a documentary film by Nedžad Begović, won Golden Apple awards at the tenth annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF), held May 9-11 at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.

Halima's Path (Halimin Put) won the BHFF 2013 Jury Award for Best Feature Film. Baggage won the BHFF 2013 award for Best Short Film, and Zizi won the BHFF 2013 Jury Award for Best Documentary Film. The BHFF 2013 Jury Special Mention award went to Children of Sarajevo (Djeca), a feature film by Aida Begić.

These outstanding films were selected by the official BHFF 2013 Jury, an expert panel comprising acclaimed director and screenwriter Goran Rusinović; award-winning filmmaker and humanitarian Bill Carter; and acclaimed photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Sara Terry.

Additionally, Halima's Path (Halimin Put) won the BHFF 2013 Audience Award for Best Picture.

Ostojić, who directed Halima's Path, said, "I am especially glad that the film received an award from both the audience and the jury at BHFF, the festival which may be small in size but is certainly large in spirit." He added, "The most beautiful aspect of all of this is when a film is shown before a full theater, before a public consisting of people from our parts of the world, as well as Americans. It is absolutely beautiful to see how they all react in the same manner, recognizing true human emotion as well as the story's persuasiveness."

Halima's Path tells the compelling story of a widow who is trying to salvage the remains of her son and husband who were killed years ago, in the war. In this emotional drama inspired by true events, Ostojić depicts a heart-wrenching story of motherhood and a nation struggling to find closure.

The tenth annual BHFF screened a total of 13 feature, short, and documentary films, compiled from a total of 32 submissions from 11 countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, England, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States.

Other films that screened at the tenth annual BHFF include: Nebojša Šerić–Shoba's Blockhouse; Orsi Nagzpal's Roundabout (Kružni Tok); Jelena Gavrilović's Something Sweet (Nešto Slatko); Slobodan Maksimović's Thank You For Sunderland (Hvala za Sunderland); Miro Benković's Mirza Delibašić – The Legend (Mirza Delibašić – Legenda); Igor Drljača's Krivina; Miroslav Momčilović's Death of a Man in Balkans (Smrt čoveka na Balkanu); Ante Novaković's The Fix; and Pjer Žalica's The Orchestra (Orkestar).


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