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Yugoslav poster for Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

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Man Is Not A Bird (1965)

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Son of Saul

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Kad budem mrtav i beo

Živojin Pavlović 1967

The film tells the story of Janko Bugarski, or Jimmy Barka (Jimmy the Boat, played by Dragan Nikolić), a disillusioned socialist youth with no education, decent job or permanent abode. Once described by Pavlović as a ‘man without qualities’, this big-mouth/small-town womanizer who earns his daily bread by pick-pocketing was everything but a desired character in a socialist film. Pavlović’s narrative is episodic and based upon Jimmy’s escapades rather than on strict dramaturgical principles; an openness that is not merely a peculiarity of the director’s style, but rather a means by which the social vulnerability of the film’s central protagonist is communicated.The loosely motivated tragic ending of the film was also seen as defying the always present demand for optimism, which stipulated that socialist art, especially the one that depicts contemporary reality, should provide an optimistic account of that reality. Pavlović’s Jimmy emerges as an outcast, a reject of a socialist society whose alienation resembles the one depicted in modernist bourgeois art. In addition to the unwelcoming present-day reality, the tragic ending of Pavlović’s film was also seen as a grim statement about the future awaiting the socialist youth of Yugoslavia. 

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Zvizdan (2015) Dir. Dalibor Matanić

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Romania’s official Oscar entry Aferim! is a historical drama captured in some of the lushest 35mm black-and-white photography seen in ages.

Find out how you can see it.

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Andrzej Krzysztoforski, plakat za film Zvonimira Berkovića Povratak na mjesto nesreće, 1971.

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Balkan films submitted to the 88th Academy awards for best foreign language picture: Albania- Bota Bulgaria- The Judgement Croatia- The High Sun Greece- Xenia Kosovo- Babai Macedonia- Honey Night  Montenegro- You Carry Me Romania- Aferim! Serbia- Enclave 

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Very exciting to see that this years Sarajevo Film Festival includes over 70 productions from Bosnia and Hercegovina!

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Newly announced strands include 1995-2015 Dealing With The Past.

The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled the full line-up for its 21st edition, including new strand 1995-2015 Dealing With The Past.

The strand includes three documentaries that tackle Bosnia’s war-torn past: The Voices of Srebrenica; The Dvor Massacre; and The Diplomat.

The first two titles will be screened together. Nedim Lončarević’s The Voices of Srebrenica is the tale of survivors of the genocide that claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people in July 1995 during the Bosnian War.

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Balkans Beyond Borders: Call for Submissions 2015- “Living in… City-mmetry”

This year BBB gets inspired by the city, the urban life and the geometrical representations identified in it. With title: Living in… City-mmetry, Balkans Beyond Borders opens the call for submissions for the 6th edition of Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival, the festival that travels from city to city in the Balkans and triggers inspiration through its different thematic every year. The 6th Edition of Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival will take place in Thessaloniki in October 2015.

Living in… “City-mmetry”: Geometrical representations and urbanism

“Every day, we draw our personal route among the city’s blocks designing our own reality.

Every city has its shapes: blocks and buildings, streets and parks but also empty spaces that reflect symmetries, asymmetries, geometries, order and disorder

Every city has its flows: we meet and get separated, connect and disconnect transforming the balance of our relationships

Every city is a mirror: changes, synergies, anonymity, abandonment, all reflected in the city’s facades

Every city is a point of reference: a common space for multiple identities that develop and get defined by historical, urban, political and societal memories Our Cities are here beyond borders, history and social changes. They constitute our environment, they are our stories”

- Let the city and the geometrical representations you identify inspire you and share with us your story of “City-mmetry”.

After five successive years, BBB gives the opportunity one more time to the next generation of film makers to create, share and present their films, meet and collaborate.We invite young artists up to the age of 35 from the Balkan region and beyond to get inspired by this year’s topic and send their short film until the 1st of July. We accept all type of film genres with duration up to 30 minutes. The main objective of BBB is to motivate young people to make use of their creativity in order to reflect on issues of concern in their region.

More information on how to apply is available on Balkans Beyond borders website: www.balkansbeyondborders.eu, our Facebook page (Balkans Beyond Borders) and Twitter (BalkansBB).

Contact us to the [email protected]

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As expected Dalibor Matanić’s ‘Zvizdan’ has won best film at the 62nd Pula Film Festival 

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The 62nd annual Pula Film Festival, Croatia's main annual film event, was opened in the northern Adriatic city of Pula on Saturday evening...

Over the next week, 11 Croatian feature films and three co-productions will compete for awards. As part of the international programme, the festival will feature two world premieres, Serbian director Stevan Filipovic's "Pored mene" and Marie Clare's "Streetkids United II: The Girls from Rio", a British-Dutch-Brazilian co-production.

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Teaser for Florin Șerban’s (If I want to Whistle I Whistle) highly anticipated second feature Box. Following the lives of Rafael, a young Roma boxer and Cristina a 30-something mother who cross paths in their seemingly monotonous lives.

It is currently playing as part of the 50th International Karlowy Vary Film Festival 

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Week of Yugoslav Cinema, (Cuba - 1977)

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Harrowing Bosnian movie focuses on plight of Balkan children of war rape

Subject of documentary Alen Muhic says the film gave him the courage to confront his past

“The film 'An Invisible Child's Trap' is making waves in Bosnia.It tells the story of Alen Muhic, the son of a Muslim Bosniak woman and a Bosnian Serb soldier who repeatedly raped her during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.'An Invisible Child's Trap' is the follow up to a 2005 film on the same subject. The director of both pictures says the latest movie carries an important message.

Semsuding Gegic, director: "We decided to make this film with this universal theme in order to show to the world what this young man says in his simple language - I am who I am. I have my identity, I am with you and I am same as you are, equal to you, and in some things I am ahead of you."

The film is currently showing at Multiplex Cinema City, Sarajevo