FILMS 2015

Directors Guild of Bosnia and Herzegovina was established

in order to improve working conditions of directresses
and directors for film, theater, television and new media.
Association aims to increase the quality of our work, the
professionalization of working conditions, linking us with
directors in BiH and internationaly.

Synopsis
A Ballad is a story about love, set in
the post-apocalyptic Bosnia-Herzegovina where myths and reality
intertwine. Mythical couple, Fatima
Pintorovic and Hasan Arapovic are
divorcing under strange circumstances and because of the reasons that
are unclear. The divorce will lead one
of them to death and leave their five
children as orphans. Suada, Kata,
Goga, Seka, Munira, Samira, Lily,
Nizama, Sajda and Zora live in todays post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina.
As they attempt to discover the real
reason behind Fatimas and Hasans
divorce they share with us the moving
stories of their own lives. The interweaving of real and invented characters and events leads us to many
questions about the mystery of love.
By confronting their brutal reality with
the poetic idea of falling and being
in love and breakup, our heroines are
proving that love is possible even in in
the times of apocalypse.

ALEN DRLJEVI

Title of the project: TABIJA

Director: Igor Drljaa
Script: Igor Drljaa
Producer: Adis apo
Production company: SCCA/pro.ba
Supported by Creative Europe and
Eurimages Developmet Award
Status: Development
Contact: Adis apo, adis@pro.ba,
Tel: +387 61 205 019

Synopsis
In a battered Sarajevo suburb, an
orphan Faruk (17) lives with his dying
grandmother. He picks up scrap metal
with his uncle, while committing petty
crimes with his friend Almir (19).
Almirs gang plans a trip to the coast,
and one spot remains in the car. To
win the spot, Faruk is given five days
to take a girls virginity, and just as it
appears he has lost, he meets Mona
(14). Mona drifts aimlessly between
her home, shopping malls, and school.
When her careeroriented parents Aida
and Slaven decide to send her to be
schooled in Vienna, Mona discovers
that they plan to divorce. While at the
mall with her girlfriends she meets
Faruk. Faruk and Mona continue to
meet in secrecy, sharing their fears
and hopes. He takes her on scooter
rides around Sarajevo. Pressured to
bring proof of his conquest, Faruk is
conflicted. He takes Mona to a fortress that overlooks the city. They
have sex and fall asleep. Mona wakes
up, cold and alone. She makes a slow
descent into the city.

Synopsis
Pisonja and Zuga, two of Sarajevos
young smuggler of stolen jeans wants
to earn money and to go to sea. But
fall into serious troubles when a local
criminal pushed into the story with
drug dealing. Pisonja falls in love with
Amila, local model connected with
the local mafia guy. The only way to go
to sea to steal a bus public transport
and with him went to the sea. This is
Sarajevos version of the story of Bonnie and Clyde, and is based on the cult
song of No smoking Band.
Title of the project: IN SCHAWARZEN LICHT
Genre: Political Thriller, Noir
Country: Austria, BiH
Director: Jasmin Durakovic
Writer: Vahid & Jasmin Durakovi, Robert
Hofferer
Producer: Robert Hofferer, Jasmin
Durakovi
Production company: Artdeluxe (Austria),
DEPO (BiH)
Estimated budget: 380.000 Eur
Looking for: Coproduction, Sales Agent,
Distribution
Contact: Jasmin Durakovi,
jasmin.durakovic@depo.ba,
Tel: +387 61 894 266

Synopsis
The story is set in East Berlin: Librarian kidnapped Journalist and hid her
in the basement of the cultural center
he works. He a member of an extremist organization politically and has the
task to slay a Journalist. But Puppeteer and Actress are doing rehearsals
for the play in the cultural center and
accidentally run into a dangerous
situation which leads Librarian. Our
drama is heading towards a deadly
the end

UNA GUNJAK

JASMIN DURAKOVI
Title of the project: MEN DONT CRY
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Alen Drljevi
Writer: Alen Drljevi, Zoran Solomun
Producer: Damir Ibrahimovi
Production company: Deblokada
Estimated budget: 1,1 mil Euro
Status: Development
Looking for: Co-producer
Contact: Damir Ibrahimovi,
damir@deblokada.ba, Tel: +387 61 172 336

Synopsis
A group of war-scarred veterans from
different sides in the Yugoslavian
conflict are brought together by a
peace group to share their wartime
experiences, and to try to establish

Title of the project: ALFA

Director: Una Gunjak
Script: Una Gunjak
Producers: Amra Baki amo, Cecilia
Frugiuele
Production company: SCCA/pro.ba
Status: Development
Contact: Amra Baki amo, amra@pro.ba,
Tel: +387 61 188 869

EMIR KUSTURICA

Synopsis

Title of the project: ON THE MILKY ROAD

Director: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Emir Kusturica, Monica Bellucci,
Sloboda Boba MIalovi, Miki Manojlovi,
Sergej Trifunovi, Davor Janji, Novak
Bilbija, Pepi Mirevski...
Status: In production

Azra (41) and Sara (17) live in Alfa,

a drug rehab commune in Italy, they
arrived to ten years ago as Bosnian
refugees. The commune faces closure
and Azra joins to battle to save it, but
now that her estranged husband in
Bosnia demands a divorce and her
daughter wants to leave for university,
Azra cannot but question her choices
and sacrifices.

A young couple goes hiking and takes

a stranger along the way, for a night
on the mountain. The newly formed
group has its ups and downs and the
main arguments come from religious
disputes which get heated and almost
serious over time. But the group is unaware that they are being tracked by
a hunter who seems unable to overcome a grief and is looking for revenge
for a son he lost in the war.

HARIS PAOVI

Synopsis
A love story based on biblical motives
about the man who quit his successful career as a pianist and the women
who due to circumstances ended up
in a war zone.

TIMUR MAKAREVI

Title of the project: KLJUC/THE KEY

Director: Timur Makarevi
Script: Timur Makarevi
Producers: Amra Baki amo, Adis apo
Coproducers: China Alhander, Malgorzata
Jurczak
Production company: SCCA/pro.ba
Coproduction companies: Chinema Film
Sweden, Scorpion Arte Poland, Supported
by Fondacija za kinematografiju, Sarajevo,
Swedish Film Institute, Polish Film
Institute, Eurimages
Status: Production
Contact: Amra Baki amo, amra@pro.ba,
Tel: +387 61 188 869

Title of the project: I AM FROM

SREBRENICA TOO
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Haris Paovi
Writer: Haris Paovi, Firket Hodi
Producer: Haris Pasovic
Production company: East West Centre
Estimated budget: 1 mil Euro
Looking for: Co-production
Status: Development
Contact: Haris Paovi, haris@eastwest.ba

Synopsis
Fikret, a television entertainment
celebrity, gets a SMS message during
the live TV show that a new witness
appeared who has some information
about his father. He takes a car to
drive to Srebrenica to meet a witness.
A female television producer joins
him. They travel during the night and
the story of a loss, memory and geno-

cide unfolds. The script is based on a

memoir book by Fikret Hodzic, a young
man who was 10 years old when
Srebrenica fell. His father was killed
in the woods together with other men
from their village and hes never found
the bones of his father. More than
1000 remains of the men from Srebrenica were not yet found even 20
years after the genocide. Add to this
7000 of victims from other parts of
Bosnia also still not found. This film
is about today. The horrible past still
lives in our present. The subject is
grave but the movie is very reflective
and it will not be one of those movies
impossible to watch. There is a special Bosnian unbearable lightness
of transcending the tragedy in this
movie.

Synopsis
In southwest Bosnia, atop mountain
and four kilometres from the nearest
road, the three brothers hold down the
fort in the womanless village of Zabre.
Dragan, Zoran and Rodoljub, represent
the entire population of what was once
a vibrant rural community. They live in
tough conditions. No running water,
no roads, not even a hint of a womans
touch. But what happens when the
eldest brother Zoran brings a young
woman to live in a womanless village
and his two younger brothers start to
be very jealous?

DANIS TANOVI

SRAN ARENAC

Title of the project: ZABRE, UNMARRIED

VILLAGE
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia,
Croatia
Director: Sran arenac
Writer: Sran arenac
Producer: Sran arenac
Production company: Novi Film Bosnia
in coproduction with Provid Croatia, Novi
Film - Serbia
Estimated budget: 600.000 Eur, confirmed
financing 15.000 Eur (Film Center Serbia,
HAVC Croatian Audiovisual Center)
Status: Development
Looking for: Co-producers, Distributors
Contact: Sran arenac,
production@novi-film.com,
Tel: +387 61 158 164

Title of the project: STA ME GLEDAS/WHAT

ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
Director: Danis Tanovi
Script: Danis Tanovic, Pea Kojovi
Producer: Amra Baki amo
Production company: SCCA/pro.ba
Supported by Creative Europe, Media PRIX
2014
Status: Project development
Contact: Amra Baki amo, amra@pro.ba,
Tel: +387 61 188 869

Synopsis
Sarajevo, not having any real heroes
and no new values, has been steadily
sinking into corruption and crime in
the 20 years years following the war.
How is one to survive everyday life in
a corrupted city that is slowly strangling its own citizens? Jasmin and
Zlatko, ordinary Bosnian youngsters
find themselves in a fight with Keke

- brother of Fahro, the main mobster

in town. Pushed into a corner, Jasmin
calls up his older brother Djuro - an
exiled war hero who comes back to
town after twenty years to help his
brother. What starts as a simple fight
between boys soon becomes a war
between former war heroes and newly
established local mafia.

JASMILA BANI

Title of the project: SREBRENICA

Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Writer: Jasmila Zbanic
Producer: Damir Ibrahimovic
Production company: Deblokada
Status: Development
Looking for: Co-producer, Distributor
Contact: Damir Ibrahimovi,
damir@deblokada.ba, Tel: +387 61 810 751

Synopsis
Faruk Nuhanovic, along with his family and 25,000 other refugees found
himself in the hell of the Srebrenica
fall, seeking protection from the UN
battalion in Srebrenica. As a UN interpreter he had managed to bring his
family into the UN base and had tried
to save them when the Serbian army,
having taken the town, reached the
base. The three days spent in fear and
search of refuge will forever define
the course of Faruks life. One day
Faruk himself will be a father and will
need to explain to his child what had
happened in Srebenica and why he
has no family.

Synopsis
What is the true phrase? Heart is
where the home is? Home is where
the heart is? Bajo (37) is Bosnian-born
Swede. After 22 years he has to visit
his hometown. Against his will, Sarajevo is changing him. But that does
not make him less Swedish or more
Bosnian, just more himself. Or simply,
home is where you are.

SHORT FEATURES &

DOCUMENTARIES

SABRINA BEGOVI
ORI

DAMIR MUJAGI

Synopsis
Title of the project: BALAD OF PISONJA &
ZUGA
Genre: Tragic Comedy
Country: BiH, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia,
Montenegro
Directors: Jasmin Durakovic, Sejo Sekson
Writer: Vladimir urdjevi, Sejo Sekson
Producer: Jasmin Durakovi, Davor Pui,
Sejo Sekson
Production company: DEPO (BiH), Fokus
(Croatia), Media Aquistions (Croatia),

Contact: Damir Mujagi,

damir.mujagic@gmail.com,
Tel: +387 61 348 187

PHOTO BY ALMIR ZRNO

Title of the project: BALADA/A BALLAD

Genre: Feature
Country: BiH/France
Director: Aida Begi
Writer: Aida Begi
Producer: Adis apo, Aida Begi
Production company: Film House Sarajevo
Estimated budget: 1,5 mil Euro
Looking for: Coproduction partners and
Funds
Contact: Adis apo, adis@filmhouse.ba

IGOR DRLJAA

Arsmedia (Slovenia), Alba (Kosovo),

Estimated budget: 610.000 Eur
Status: Development
Looking for: Coproduction, Sales Agent,
Distribution
Contact: Jasmin Durakovi,
jasmin.durakovic@depo.ba,
Tel: +387 61 894 266

PHOTO BY SIMON MURHY

PHOTO BY JEROME BONNET

AIDA BEGI

a degree of trust and faith between

them. Emotions are highly charged as
old enmities and hostilities emerge,
but the participants gradually learn to
overcome their divisions and achieve
a kind of understanding and respect
for each other, or at least tolerance,
despite all the bloodshed that has
flowed between them in the past.

PHOTO BY PETR NAIC

FEATURE FILMS

Title of the project: TRESKAVICA

Genre: Thriller / outdoor adventure
Country: Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia
Director: Damir Mujagi
Writer: Damir Mujagi
Production company: None
Estimated budget: 50.000 Eur
Looking for: Project development
Status: Development
Looking for: Project development

Synopsis

Synopsis

ROOSTER is a short drama which takes

a place in a rocky Hercegovina. On
International Womens Day, MILICA (26)
a victim of domestic violence seeks
help and understanding from a policeman PERKOV (32) who is preoccupied
with demonstrating his affection for a
seductive colleague STELA (26).

Bruce Talavera jail organizes an annual

beauty contest for female convicts in
Brasil giving them possibility to feel
free for 2 weeks. Twelve prison contestants are going to be judged for beauty,
general knowledge and their good
behavior record. The Beauty Contest
gives the female convicts goals, pride
and steps towards improving their
self-esteem. The winner wins Miss
Captivity title and gets a possibility of
earlier release.

SRAN ARENAC

Title of the project: ROOSTER

Genre: Short drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Director: Sabrina Begovi - ori
Writer: Melina Alagi
Producer: Sabrina Begovi ori,
Production company: HAVA Sarajevo
Co-producer: Dijana Mlaenovi,
KINEMATOGRAF Zagreb, Croatia
Estimated budget: 76.000 Eur (20.000 Eur
confirmed from BiH Film Fond)
Status: Development
Looking for: Co-producer, distributer
Contact: Sabrina Begovi ori,
sabrina.begovic@gmail.com,
Tel: +387 61 922 422

Title of the project: THE PRISON BEAUTY

CONTEST
Genre: Documentary
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Brazil
Director: Sran arenac
Writer: Sran arenac
Producer: Sran arenac
Production company: Novi Film Bosnia
in coproduction with Provid Croatia, Novi
Film - Serbia
Estimated budget: 200.000 Eur, confirmed
financing 19.000 Eur (HAVC Croatian
Audiovisual Center, Film Center Sarajevo)
Looking for: Co-producers, Distributors
Status: Development
Looking for: Co-producers, Distributors
Contact: Sran arenac,
production@novi-film.com,
Tel: +387 61 158 164

RATKO OROZOVI

Title of the project: JOVAN JOVANOVI,

ZMAJ OD BALKANA/ JOVAN JOVANOVI,
THE DRAGON OF BALKAN
Genre: Documentary

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Director: Ratko Orozovi
Writer: Ratko Orozovi
Producer: Goran Luki
Production company: Association Viva
Estimated budget: 15.000 Eur
Status: Development
Looking for: 8.000 Eur
Contact: Ratko Orozovi,
ratkoorozovic@gmail.com,
Tel. +387 61 803 080

Synopsis
The movie is about mr. Jovan Jovanovic, a man who entered in the 107
year of life. He is professor of Russian
language and literature. Born in Montenegro, and now lives in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The film tells about his
lifes journey in which he went through
all sorts of things, and survived the 5
wars. There is no one from the family,
he is alone and now he lives in a nursing home. He dedicated his life to scientific work. I follow him for five years
and I expect to finish the story with
his death, but he keeps on surprising
me. Last year he even got married, and
the bride is 80 years old.

FILMS OF BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN
DIRECTORS ON SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL

DOKUMENT predstavlja

Scenarij i reija INES TANOVI

Producent ALEM BABI Producentice DUNJA KLEMENC i ZDENKA GOLD
Igraju ULIKS FEHMIU, EMIR HADIHAFIZBEGOVI, JASNA ORNELA BERY,

MAJA IZETBEGOVI, VEDRANA SEKSAN, NINA VIOLI, MARKO MANDI,

BORO STJEPANOVI, GORAN BOGDAN, ALEKSANDAR SEKSAN,
ENIS BELAGI, GORAN NAVOJEC, MIRVAD KURI, BOO VREO
Direktor fotograje EROL ZUBEVI Montaa REDINALD IMEK Scenograf MARIO IVEZI
Kostimografkinja SANJA DEBA minka TINA UBIC DODOI
Dizajn zvuka IGOR AMO Mix zvuka JULIJ ZORNIK Muzika HALKA

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No one can take away our dreams and memories

FLOTEL
EUROPA
a film by VLADIMIR TOMI

Producers Sran Kea & Selma Jusufbegovi Editor Sran Kea

Sound Design Aleksandar Alex Pavlovi Color grading Ricco Hjland Hansen

FILM CENTER SERBIA

A DOCUMENTARY BY MLADEN MITROVI

Written, Directed & Produced by MLADEN MITROVI Co-Producer NENAD PUHOVSKI Associate Producers DAVOR PUI & GIUSEPPE D'AGOSTINO Executive Producer MLADEN MITROVI
Camera ZORAN PETROVI SAS & MLADEN MITROVI Songs by JADRANKA STOJAKOVI Composer MILAN Sv. UREVI Editor DAVOR BOSANKI Sound Design DUBRAVKA PREMAR Graphic Design VLADISLAV PANTI

Sponsors

PRESENTS

rUSSIAN
A FILM BY DAMIR IBRAHIMOVIC AND ELDAR EMRIC
DIRECTED BY: DAMIR IBRAHIMOVI AND ELDAR EMRI
PRODUCERS: JASMILA BANI, DAMIR IBRAHIMOVI, ELDAR EMRI
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: ELDAR EMRI EDITOR: VLADIMIR GOJUN

Contact: Sran arenac, +387 61 158 164