BHFF 2016 Booklet Web.pdf

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We are delighted to present the thirteenthannual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival

will screen Wednesday through Saturday, May25 - May 28, 2016, at two Manhattan venues!

The festival opens Wednesday, May 25, at AnthologyFilm Archives, with the new with the BH Film Forum.

The evening begins with a special screening of two

panel discussion featuring Bosnian-Herzegovinian and

On Thursday, May 26, through Saturday, May 28, the

action moves to the SVA Theatre for screenings of the

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makers, celebration of Bosnian-Herzegovinian cinemaand culture, and much more! Details including screen-

our program page.

This year, BHFF is honored to have cooperated with

the Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia-Herzegovi-

na/ Filmskih Radnika Bosne i Hercegovine

(UFRBiH). The 2016 festival is supported by both

UFRBiH and the Foundation of Cinematography Sa-

r evo. UFRBiH is a supporter of the BHFF and

co-curator of the BH Film Forum panel. Director Ines

Tano , the board president of the UFRBiH, and Elma

Tatar , the 2016 BHFF ry member, scriptwriter,

DOBRODOŠLI & WELCOME!


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producer and general secretary of the UFRBiH, will

be in attendance at this year’s BHFF. Both will also

take part in the l BH Film Forum discussion panel on

Wednesday, May 25th.

In 2016, the BHFF Jury includes scriptwriter and pro-

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taša Milas.

The jury will award the following honors to the most

Documentary Film; BHFF 2016 Jury Award for Best

Short Film and BHFF 2016 Jury Award for Best Fea-

ture Film. Films eligible for the Jury Award are all those

screened at the BHFF 2016 that were released in

2014, 2015 and 2016. As always, the audience will

BHFF 2016 Audience Award for the Best Picture. All

those attending the screening will be able to vote for

Film Festival.

The awards ceremony will take place at the SVA The-

28th. Then, following the awards ceremony, we will host

a closing party at the Westside Tavern at 360 West23rd Street, New York, NY, starting around 11:30 p.m.

Everyone is invited, so please join us! The Westside

Tavern is just steps away from the SVA Theatre.

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by a dedicated team of volunteers. We are grateful for

the support of our friends and audience! If you’d like

to make a donation today to support the BHFF, please

visit our sponsorship page to make your tax-deduct-

ible and secure donation. Thank you!W -

tributors; production companies; and our main media

partners: Radio Sarajevo and Bljesak.info. And we are

year’s BHFF. Without them – and all of you – this fes-

tival would not be possible! Thank you!

Please visit www.bhffnyc.org for regular updates and

sign up for our mailing list. Also connect with us on

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media(@BHFFNYC).

Sincerely,

The BHFF Team


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BIOGRAPHIES OF OFFICIALBHFF 2016 JURY MEMBERS:

ELMA TATARA was born in Sarajevo in 1976.She studied Screenwriting and History of Cinema at the

Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts and subsequently

obtained her Master of Science degree and Ph.D. in Film

and Literature. She has been with the Sarajevo Film Fes-

tival since its founding in 1995, where she now works as

a selector for Competition Program. T co-wrote-

duced the short North Went Mad. She has produced and

Cannes 2008 – Semaine de la critique and won the Grand

has won over 30 international awards. T is also

a General Secretary and member of the Association ofFilmmakers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She has been teach-

ing screenwriting at the Sarajevo Academy of Performing

Arts since 2002, now as a professor. T is memberof European Film Academy. In addition to publishing a

book on screenwriting, T is working as a scriptdoctor for Eurimages (EU co-production fund) and advi-

sor to the European Film Academy, and was a delegate for

the Rome Film Festival in 2012 and 2013.

ANNETTE DANTO

-vision production, documentaries and sound recording.

Some of her works include projects for BBC, Channel

Four, NHK, Canal Plus, NBC, HBO and Showtime. Danto

organizations, including the United Nations Development

the Ted Turner Foundation. She’s been awarded the Ful-

bright Scholarship in Film and Media Making three times.

Danto’s documentaries are distributed through www.

forwardintime.com and held in permanent collections of

universities and educational institutions worldwide. Re-

(2011), Gandhi’s Wheel (2010), and The Never Ending

Path (2005). Her recent invited presentations include:

British Film Institute (2015), Daniel Pearl Film Festival

(2015), IIE/CIES Global Exchange (2015).

NATAŠA MILAS is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University

in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.She was born in Sarajevo in 1976, where she lived until

her move to Canada in 1995. Currently Nataša lives in

New York City with her husband and two children. Na-

taša works on Russian and South Slavic literatures and

translation of Muharem Bazdulj’s novel Transit, Comet,

Eclipse is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press in 2016.

Absinthe 20: Spotlight on Bosnia, focusing on contem-porary Bosnian prose. Her essays and translations have

appeared in Slavic and East European Journal, Absinthe,

Brooklyn Rail, Kino Kultura, InTranslation, and In Con-

trast: Croatian Film Today.

OFFICIAL BHFF 2016 PROGRAM:Wednesday, May 25, 2016: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES:The BH Film Forum (BHFF non-competition program and panel)

6:30 p.m. | Film: No Excuses | Film: 100 Million Dollar House |8:30 p.m. | Panel: “Bosnian Cinema: From National to Transnational Frameworks” with:

Elma T, 2016 BHFF Jury member, scriptwriter and producer; Ines Tano Dijana J, scholar of cultural and cinema studies; and Amir Husak,

NO EXCUSES (Nema ali) | Faruk Sokolo | 2015 |32 min. | Documentary (non-competition program)

“No Excuses” follows the story of a young history teach-er, Haris Jusufo, a Bosniak from Sarajevo, as he triesto memorialize crimes that were committed against the

Bosnian Serb civilians during the 1992-95 siege of the city.

The documentary is based on an article Jusufo wrote in2014 for the Banja Luka news portal Buka about Bosnian

Serb civilians who were murdered in the Kazani ravine

on Mount Trebe, near Sarajevo. Jusufo believes thatSarajevo residents, regardless of ethnicity, should support

the prosecution of all alleged perpetrators and the speedy

exhumation of the remaining bodies at Kazani.

100 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE (K | Reshad Kuleno

2015 | 53 min. | Documentary (non-competition program)In 100 Million Dollar House, a documentary set in the

West Bank, a family is offered 100 million dollars to sell

their home and leave.

his experiences and attempts to come to terms with the

home and the search for identity in a part of the world


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BLOCK 1: Thursday, May 26. 6:30 p.m.

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Nominations:

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The robbery of an old man turns into an adventure

T, as well as brand new and up-and-coming faces ofBosnian cinema.



LAST PERSPECTIVE (Posljednji pogled) . | Short Fiction

Nominations:

BHFF 2016 Jury Award for Best Short Film


Three sisters disguise themselves as zombies in orderto survive in a post-apocalyptic world full of infected,

former humans. When they see another uninfected guy,

who just ran into a group of zombies, the sisters are in

a dilemma: to help him and expose themselves, or let

him die?

THE HIGH SUN (Zvizdan) . | Feature

Nominations:

BHFF 2016 Jury Award for Best Feature Film


The High Sun shines a light on three love stories, set in

three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring villages with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred. It is a

becomes a forbidden luxury in the pre-war atmosphere

I LOVE SFK (Volim SFK) | Ada So olo . | Documentary

Nominations:

BHFF 2016 Jury Award for Best Documentary Film


The ethnically-mixed women’s soccer club “SFK from Bosnia-Herzegovina is the subject of I Love SFK,

which documents their losses and victories both on and

Bosnians and help them overcome ethnic divisions. Theclub has been a state champion in women’s football for

a dozen years, and its members play for Bosnia’s national

women’s team.Despite their success, they face many ob-

stacles as women in a male-dominated sport.

SOUL TRAIN 78 min. | Documentary

Nominations:

BHFF 2016 Jury Award for Best Documentary Film


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ond, and it doesn’t stop until the very end. You will see

high-energy and highly entertaining (and at times hu-

stories about Bosnian hip-hop and rap music and the

leading Bosnian artists and musicians behind the genre.

But it’s not all about rap and hip-hop. Bosnian rappers

Fr and Kontra, DJ Soul and music producer Billaintravel all around Bosnia-Herzegovina. They visit several

cities and meet musicians and artists of all . It’s arare, surprising and refreshing at the people whoare eeping the arts alive in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

of madness, confusion, and fear. In the second story, set

to turn their infatuation into an ongoing relationship: the

scars of the war are still too fresh. The third story ta es-

ers can br free of the past. Evil and suspicion have notcompletely vanished from their lives and catharsis is not

easy to achieve, but it is possible once again.


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