11. SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL. 19-27avgust 2005

[Lace]

hajd dobro

[horns&drums]

Ne seri Lace, jako si osjetljiva u zadnje vrijeme?

Gdje je ona britka amazonka Intelica nestala pitam se?

[dinash]

eh da, pronadjena muzika iz filma :):):)

Flu

gdje
kako
sta

link ili ...

u gtemi mp3 djerdan je link bio prije skoro dvije sedmice. ppogledaj tamo ako je link jos aktivan.

[The_Fluid]

pogledati temu Broken Flowers, na ovom istom podforumu, jutros je dodana prva pjesma, skinuto je jos 7 pjesmi, a nadam se da ce i preostale biti do sutra available svima.

[Gazz]

u gtemi mp3 djerdan je link bio prije skoro dvije sedmice. ppogledaj tamo ako je link jos aktivan.

pogledati temu Broken Flowers, na ovom istom podforumu, jutros je dodana prva pjesma, skinuto je jos 7 pjesmi, a nadam se da ce i preostale biti do sutra available svima.

dinash, Flu thanks

[The_Fluid]

Gotov je, jos jedan, festival, nakon devet dana projekcija vrijeme se da se preporuce filmovi, saberu i podijele utisci, toplo preporucujem, za one koji nisu, pogledati filmove:

Hotel Ruanda i Vera Drake, a ako zelite da vidite nesto sasvim drugacije potrazite Analife

[vedderedi]

Ja preporucujem RAJ SADA, od dokumentaraca DARWINOV KOSMAR, zatim STRANPUTICU I VERU DRAKE.

Zna li neko koji su brojevi izvuceni na onoj nagradnoj igri AKVAFRESHA?

[repeater]

za one koji su gledali film, kakvim vam se čini pobjednik ovogodišnjeg sff-a, lady zee.
bugari pod drugi put zaredom nose titulu, prošle godine je pobijedio mila from mars -- kako je krenulo, ispašće da je sff odgovoran za uspjeh bugarskog filma u svijetu.

[repeater]

guardian o ovogodišnjem sff-u ...

Pride, no prejudice

The Sarajevo film festival was founded during the city's darkest hour but now, in its 11th year, is celebrating a new-found harmony and confidence. Ronald Bergan reports

Ronald Bergan
Tuesday September 6, 2005

Guardian Unlimited

The open wounds of war - bombed out buildings and shell-marked walls - are still very visible in Sarajevo, a city that has haunted modern European history since the first world war. However, all was peace during the recently concluded 11th Sarajevo film festival, which has developed into one of the most hospitable and exciting in Europe.
The festival was born at a difficult time, during the siege of Sarajevo. Despite the danger, 15,000 people came to see the 37 films from 15 different countries. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Dayton-Paris accord that ended the terrible war. Ironically, the centre of the festival is the army headquarters where representatives from all the regions of ex-Yugoslavia gathered. In a mood of reconciliation, Croatians and Serbs, Bosnians and Slovenians all happily chatted over a drink, praising each other's films.

This is in stark contrast to the atmosphere a few years ago at the Karlovy Vary film festival when Serbs walked out during the screening of the Croatian film Chico - granted, a rather Ramboesque anti-Serbian view of the war - and Croatians noisily left the cinema during War Live!, a superior Serbian film set during the bombing of Belgrade by Nato forces.

Only last month at the Pula film festival in Croatia, political tensions resurfaced when Goran Paskaljevic, the Serbian director of A Midwinter Night's Dream, was not allowed to take a bow after the end of the film, unlike the Croatian film directors. At the award ceremony, however, the lead actor of the film, who received a special mention from the international jury, did get on stage to huge applause, which suggests that the audience probably had a more mature political attitude to the Serbian-Croatian conflict than those who barred the director his due.

The films in this year's competition in Sarajevo, all from the Balkans, reflected a new-found harmony. Two from Croatia, two from Serbia, two from Slovenia (one a co-production with Bosnia and Herzegovina), and one from Kosovo (in Albanian). The latter, Kukumi, is a beautifully shot parable of madness and war. The director, Isa Qosya, who has not made a film for 17 years, said the film was his way of showing how years of ethnic conflict had dehumanised people in the region. He explained how difficult it was to raise money in Kosovo, one of the poorest regions in Europe, struggling to provide the population with basic services like healthcare. But eventually the Kosovo authorities agreed to foot the €600,000 bill. Croatia's Jadran Film provided the equipment, and the all-Albanian cast and Qosya worked without pay. (It won the Special Jury Award of €10,000.)

It seems that the only way for film-makers from this region to tackle serious subjects is to be blackly humorous about the erstwhile conflict, satirising xenophobia as in Sorry for Kung Fu, about a girl from a traditional Croatian family who gives birth to a child of Asian appearance. The comedy is set just after the war in the former Yugoslavia, an inferno sparked off by racial differences.

The other Croatian film in competition, What is a Man Without A Moustache?, is a very funny take on the prejudice and illusions in a small community. What is most striking about this film from a deeply Catholic country is its portrayal of a priest who is seduced by an attractive widow and has a child by her.

One notices that most of the films have their social messages delivered in the form of certain established genres. South by Southeast pastiches the Hitchcock thriller while saying something about Serbian politics, riddled with paranoia and suspicion. As the director Milutin Petrovic says, "The prime minister of my country was recently assassinated in the downtown area of my city. So the plot is not so farfetched." Damjan Kozole's Labour Equals Freedom is a romantic comedy which obliquely addresses the tragedy of unemployment in Slovenia.

The Bosnian film, Go West, tells the story of two gay men - a Serb and a Bosnian - who attempt to flee the besieged Sarajevo. Held up at a checkpoint by Bosnian Serbs, one of them has to pretend to be a woman to save their lives. The film, according to its director Ahmed Imamovic, is "a condemnation of all prejudice in the Balkans that almost always causes bloodshed." In a way, the Sarajevo festival offered audiences an invigorating cinema of catharsis.