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GRBAVICA

 

GRBAVICA

GRBAVICA
DIRECTOR: JASMILA ZBANIC
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA, AUSTRIA, GERMANY 2006
90 MIN / 35MM, COLOR, BOSN. OV w. engl. ST

Caligari: 10.04. / 10.00 pm

DIRECTOR:
Jasmila Zbanic

SCREENPLAY:
Jasmila Zbanic

CAMERA:
Christine Maier

ART DIRECTOR:
Kemal Hrustanovic

EDITOR:
Niki Mossböck

MUSIC:
Enes Zlatar

PRODUCER:
Barbara Albert
Damir Ibrahimovic
Bruno Wagner

CAST:
Mirjana Karanovic
Luna Mijovic
Leon Lucev
Kenan Catic
Jasna Ornela Berry

PRODUCTION:
Deblokada, Sarajevo
Tel.: 00387 - 33 / 668 559
Fax: 00387 - 33 / 668 559
e-mail: deblok@bih.net.ba

Jadran Film, Zagreb
Tel.: 0038 - 551 / 298 72 22
Fax: 0038 - 551 / 385 13 94
e-mail: jadran-film@zg.tel.hr

coop99, Wien
Tel.: 0043 - 1 / 319 58 25
Fax: 0043 - 1 / 319 58 20
e-mail: welcome@coop99.at

Noirfilm, Karlsruhe
Tel.: 0049 - 721 / 352 89 25
Fax: 0049 - 721 / 352 89 27
e-mail: info@noirfilm.de

CO-PRODUCTION:
Eurimages

in cooperation with ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Mainz / Arte

DISTRIBUTION:
The Match Factory, Köln
Tel.: 0049 - 89 / 231 101 27
Fax: 0049 - 89 / 231 101 30
e-mail: info@matchfactory.de

At first glance, life in Sarajevo is much the same as in any other post-Communist state. But only a few years ago the city was the scene of a war in which people were tortured, murdered, and systematically raped. The population’s wartime experience subconsciously dominates their lives, even if everybody is at pains to keep up some appearance of normality. That is the case with Esma, a single mother who lives with her adolescent daughter Sara in the Grbavica quarter of the capital, and is kept busy by problems like getting enough money together to pay for school excursions. She enjoys some moments of hope with a former soldier she meets at work. The film is also about people like him: Students who went to war and are now struggling to find a place in civilian life. At home he has a mother who believes Sarajevo is still under siege: Day-to-day reality in Sarajevo, where therapeutic centres have opened for traumatized women.
Faced with a love-sick teenager who is demanding her independence and more information about her father, Esma is determined not to let things fall apart. But the secret she carries begins to take over her life, the memories refuse to be restrained. The truth comes to light after matters come to a head – and only then can mother and daughter begin to understand each other. With its uncluttered narrative and wintry grey images the film expresses the situation in Bosnia, where peaceful co-existence and day-to-day normality are possible, but genuine reconciliation – and a basis for new life – can only come about after the events of the past have been brutally articulated. Golden Bear winner at Berlin in 2006.

 
           
  Jasmila Zbanic  

Jasmila Zbanic
Born on 19.12.1974 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegowina.
Jasmila Zbanic graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts – ASU in Sarajevo, departement of theater and film directing. As director and scriptwriter she founded, in 1997, an artists association, later transformed into a film production company named “Deblokada”, under the aegis of which she produced ten short films and documentaries as well as art videos. They where shown successfully at international festivals and events, eg., at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel in 2004. GRBAVICA is Zbanic's first feature film. Her short documentary CRVENE GUMENE CIZME is also presented at goEast 2006.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION):
2000 Crvene gumene cizme / Red Rubber Boots (short documentary)
2003 Do you remember Sarajevo (documentary)
2003 Slike sa ugla / Images from the Corner (documentary)
2005 Lost and Found (Omnibus film, co-director)
2006 Grbavica

   
         
         
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