Topic: Bosnian War

Direction Danis Tanovic

Cast Branko Djuric · Rene Bitorajac · Filip Sovagovic · Katrin Cartlidge

Synopsis When Ciki, a Bosnian soldier with really bad luck and a few other relief soldiers try to join their Bosnian comrades on the front, they get lost in fog, fall asleep, and are awakened at dawn by Serbian gunfire. His...

Direction Nenad Cicin-Sain

Cast Bono · U2 · The Edge · Adam Clayton

Synopsis The inescapably current story of defiance amid the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo. An underground community uses music and art to effect change and garner global attention, and a post-war concert by U2 celebrates the city’s triumph over ethnic nationalism.

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Slavko Stimac · Natasa Solak · Vesna Trivalic · Vuk Kostic

Synopsis Life is a Miracle (2004) is a whimsical yet poignant tale set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War. Luka, a Serbian engineer, dreams of building a railway in the picturesque countryside while his life unravels around him. When his...

Direction Srdjan Dragojevic

Cast Dragan Bjelogrlic · Nikola Kojo · Dragan Maksimovic · Zoran Cvijanovic

Synopsis The film starts in the Belgrade army hospital where casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. The main focus is on two young boys, Halil (Nikola Pejakovic), a Muslim, and...

Direction Srdan Golubovic

Cast Aleksandar Bercek · Leon Lucev · Nebojsa Glogovac · Hristina Popovic

Synopsis During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 15 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their...

Direction Arsen A. Ostojic

Cast Alma Prica · Olga Pakalovic · Mijo Jurisic · Mustafa Nadarevic

Synopsis Halima, a Muslim woman, is trying, without success, to identify the remains of her son who was killed in the Bosnian War. She refuses the DNA analysis, hiding the fact that her son was secretly adopted and is not her...

Direction Ademir Kenovic

Cast Mustafa Nadarevic · Almedin Leleta · Almir Podgorica · Josip Pejakovic

Synopsis Adis and Kerim, two boys aged 7 and 9, find refuge in the home of a poet whose wife and daughter have left Sarajevo. During the civil war, Adis and Kerim lost their family, with the exception of an aunt...

Direction Ahmed Imamovic

Cast Almedin Leleta · Satoshi Yahata · Milan Pavlovic · Jasna Zalica

Synopsis The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia.

Direction Pawel Pawlikowski

Synopsis In this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting. He takes on a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary but on the power of images: a mass baptism before...

Direction Teresa Turiera-Puigbò · Erol Ileri

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Madeleine Assas · Ghalia Lacroix · Bérangère Allaux · Vicky Messica

Synopsis For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from...

Direction Jasmila Zbanic

Cast Mirjana Karanovic · Luna Mijovic · Leon Lucev · Kenan Catic

Synopsis 2006: Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear. Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter, Sara, in post-war Sarajevo. Sara wants to go on a school trip and Esma starts working as a waitress in a nightclub in order to earn...

Direction Danis Tanovic

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Boris Ler · Mira Furlan · Jelena Stupljanin

Synopsis A story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.

Direction Larysa Kondracki

Cast Rachel Weisz · Monica Bellucci · Benedict Cumberbatch · Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.

Direction Michael Winterbottom

Cast Stephen Dillane · Woody Harrelson · Marisa Tomei · Goran Visnjic

Synopsis A startling examination of the Bosnian war of the mid-1990s and the role of journalists in covering it, this film was based on real-life journalist Michael Nicholson's book Natasha's Story. Like Nicholson, cynical journalist Henderson (Stephen Dillane) is one of...

Direction Una Gunjak

Cast Iman Alibalic · Esma Alic · Mario Knezovic · Mirela Lambic

Synopsis As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes...

Direction Predrag Antonijevic

Cast Dennis Quaid · Nastassja Kinski · Natasa Ninkovic · Stellan Skarsgard

Synopsis Joshua is a former U.S. military official who fled to the Foreign Legion when his wife Maria was killed by Muslim fundamentalists in Paris, and now he's a mercenary, fighting in the Yugoslav war on the Serbian side against Muslims.

Direction David Attwood

Cast Linus Roache · Vincent Pérez · Lia Williams · Lothaire Bluteau

Synopsis The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to...

Direction Juanita Wilson

Cast Natasa Petrovic · Fedja Stukan · Jelena Jovanova · Sanja Buric

Synopsis A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes...

Direction Dejan Zecevic

Cast Aleksandar Stojkovic · Vuk Kostic · Tihomir Stanic · Ljubomir Bandovic

Synopsis 1995. A small engineering squad has welcomed Dayton Agreement in mountains, not far from the ruins of a local factory that was destroyed in combat. In that strange atmosphere, the squad finds a walled-in basement in ruins of the factory...