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BH FILM PROGRAM: 69 films, 41 World and 3 International Premieres!

This year's BH FILM program organized by Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its 14th edition as part of the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival, will present 69 films: 9 feature narrative films, 6 feature documentaries, 3 medium length fiction films, 19 middle-length and short documentaries, 17 short fiction and animated films, 14 student films.

The Program will be opened with the screening of the film HOP JAN from 1967 in memory of Bosnian and Herzegovinian film director Vlatko Filipović who passed away this year.
The highlight of the program is the Student Competition section gathering and presenting films made by students from BiH film academies and faculties. This year 14 films from four Bosnian and Herzegovinian film schools and academies are competing for the three awards (Best Student Film, Special Jury Prize and Special Mention) and Istanbul based KisaKes Film Festival Pitching Platform Award.
This year’s BH Film program will present 41 World and 3 International Premieres.
 
BH Film Program has the aim to promote BiH cinema and every year proves to be an important platform for the BiH authors from all over the world.
During the festival, the Association of Filmmakers of BiH will also present their Ivica Matić annual awards for 2018.
 
 
BH FILM PROGRAM LINE-UP 2019:

IN MEMORIAM: Vlatko Filipović (1936.-2019.)
HOP JAN
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1967, 11 min.
Director: Vlatko Filipović
 
 
FEATURE FILMS

DAD / TATA
Canada, 2019, 91 min. 
Director: Vladimir Bilenjki
 
DURAN
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 93 min.
Director: Faruk Sokolović
 
I ACT, I AM / IGRAM, SEM
Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 105 min. 
Director: Miroslav Mandić 
 
HEROES DON'T DIE / LES HÉROS NE MEURENT JAMAIS
France, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 85 min.
Director: Aude Léa Rapin 
 
MY GRANDPA IS AN ALIEN / MOJ DIDA JE PAO S MARSA
Croatia, Luxembourg, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 79 min.
Director: Marina Andree Škop, Dražen Žarović
 
OMNIBUS: SEE FACTORY SARAJEVO MON AMOUR
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, France, 2019, 60 min.
Directors: Maša Šarović, Sharon Engelhart, Dušan Kašalica, Teodora Ana Mihai, Urška Đukić, Gabriel Tzafka, Neven Samardžić, Carolina Markowicz
 
TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE
Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 91 min. 
Director: Ena Sendijarević
 
THE SON / SIN
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Montenegro, 2019, 106 min. 
Director: Ines Tanović
 
STITCHES / ŠAVOVI
Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 105 min. 
Director: Miroslav Terzić
 
 
MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS

DELTA WAVE / DELTA VAL
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, 2019, 40 min.
Director: Damir Bašić
 
LOREM IPSUM
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2019, 60 min.
Director: Filip Lončarić
 
TREES / STABLA
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, 2019, 51 min. 
Director: Duško Stanivuk
 
 
DOCUMENTARY FILMS

23 GRAMS / 23 GRAMA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, 2018, 43 min. 
Director: Robert Bubalo
 
A SMALL DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE LETTERS / MALI DOKUMENTARNI FILM O 3 PISMA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, France, 2019, 30 min.
Director: Goran Bregović
 
CHILDREN’S SUITE / DJEČIJA SVITA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 45 min. 
Director: Jusuf Jaganjac
 
COMING FROM MAOČA / JA SAM IZ MAOČE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 21 min. 
Director: Mirza Ajandžić, Zoran Ćatić
 
DANS NOTRE PARADIS / IN OUR PARADISE
France, 2019, 76 min. 
Director: Claudia Marschal 
 
INVISIBLE CHILD
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 46 min. 
Director: Muhammed İbrahim Şişman
 
IN YOUR HANDS / IN MANUS TUAS 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 25 min. 
Director: Milana Majar
 
KELI
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 40 min. 
Director: Muhamed Bikić
 
LITTLE STAR RISING / KUĆA MALE ZVIJEZDE
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 72 min. 
Director: Slađana Lučić
 
MAGLAJ - WAR AND PEACE / MAGLAJ – RAT I MIR
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 27 min. 
Directors: Alen Ćosić, Will Richard, Asmir Muratović
 
PEOPLE THAT PLANTED TREES / LJUDI KOJI SU SADIILI DRVEĆE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 46 min. 
Director: Zdenko Jurilj
 
REGENERATION / REGENRACIJA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 75 min. 
Director: Emir Kapetanović
 
SARAJEVO: STATE IN TIME
Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, 2019, 48 min. 
Director: Benjamin Jung, Théo Meurisse
 
SIMPLY HUMAN / JEDNOSTAVNO ČOVJEK
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 17 min. 
Director: Arijana Vereget YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES / BIT ĆETE MI
 
SRNA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 12 min. 
Director: Goran Dujaković
 
STACK OF MATERIAL / GOMILA MATERIJALA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 7 min. 
Director: Sajra Subašić
 
SVJEDOCI
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 60 min. 
Director: Anela Križanac
 
THE BIG WHITE HOUSE / VELIKA BIJELA KUĆA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 15 min.
Director: Zoran Ćatić
 
THE MUSEUM OF FORGOTTEN TRIUMPHS
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, 2018, 87 min. 
Director: Bojan Bodružić
 
THEN COMES THE EVENING / A SAD SE SPUŠTA VEČE
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 28 min. 
Director: Maja Novaković
 
THE STONE SPEAKERS
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, 2018, 92 min. 
Director: Igor Drljača
 
TO TELL A GHOST
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, 2018, 12 min. 
Director: Chris Piotrowicz, Stefan Ehrhardt
 
VOICES OF FOČA / GLASOVI FOČE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 22 min. 
Director: Mirza Ajandžić
 
WHEN WE ARE FEWER / KAD NAS JE MANJE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 42 min. 
Director: Neven Samardžić
 
WHERE DO ANTS GO / KUDA IDU MRAVI
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 9 min. 
Director: Nisvet Hrustić
 
 
SHORT AND ANIMATED

A VILLAGE AFTER DARK / EN BY NÄR MÖRKRET LAGT SIG
Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 15 min. 
Director: Benjamin Dizdarević
 
BIRDY / TICA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 20 min. 
Director: Alen Šimić
 
CAN’T YOU SEE THEM? - REPEAT.
Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 9 min.
Director: Clarissa Thieme
 
CHOICE / IZBOR
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 1 min.
Director: Nemanja Vučenović
 
COUNTERPOINT
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 24 min.
Director: Ivan Koroman
 
FUGUE / FUGA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 10 min. 
Director: Zoran Ćatić
 
LUCK / SREĆA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 26 min. 
Director: Nedim Karalić
 
MOTEL 219
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 14 min.
Director: Ida Keškić
 
NATURAL SELECTION / PRIRODNI ODABIR
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2019, 10 min. 
Director: Aleta Rajič 
 
NOMOPHOBIA / NOMOFOBIA
Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 15 min. 
Director: Ado Hasanović
 
OMARSKA
France, 2018, 19 min.
Director: Varun Sasindran 
 
THE NEW BEGINNINGS / NOVI POČECI
Sweden, 2019, 30 min. 
Director: Eldin Smajlović
 
THE PIT / JAMA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 10 min.
Director: Alban Ukaj
 
THE WASHING
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 5 min
Director: Aid Bešić, Elvir Kopić
 
ULYSSES: EPISODE ONE / ULIKS: PRVA EPIZODA
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 34 min.
Director: Dino Topolnjak
 
UNDONE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, USA, 2018, 9 min. 
Director: Justine Stevens
 
VARIABLES / VARIJACIJE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 24 min.
Director: Sabina Vajrača
 
 
STUDENT FILMS

SARAJEVO ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS

BONES / KOSTI
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 9 min.
Director: Adi Selimović
 
IN MEMORY OF A SUMMER GONE BY / U SJEĆANJE NA LJETO ŠTO JE PROŠLO
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 12 min. 
Director: Luka Vlaho
 
SELF-REFLECTION / AUTOREFLEKSIJA   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 13 min. 
Director: Amar Komić
 
SNORTY / ŠMRK
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 14 min.
Director: Alen Šimić
 
TROUTS / PASTRMKE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 20 min. 
Director: Augustin Koprić
 
ACADEMY OF ARTS BANJA LUKA

A FALL / SLAP
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 9 min. 
Director: Aleksandar Jurić
 
COSTACURTA (A TALE OF SATANKRAJINA) / KOSTAKURTA (BAJKA O SANTAKRAJINI)
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, 2018, 28 min. 
Director: Saša Karanović
 
I’M NOT HERE / NISAM OVDJE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 21 min.
Director: Sara Radusinović
 
YOUTH / MLADOSTI
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 4 min.
Director: Žana Forca
 
FACULTY OF DRAMA AND FILM ARTS BIJELJINA 

I’M NOT HOME / NISAN DOMA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 8 min. 
Director: Vera Kulić 
 
SARAJEVO FILM ACADEMY

A VERY GOOD DAY / VEOMA DOBAR DAN
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 15 min. 
Director: Farah Hasanbegović
 
DREAM DANCER 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 25 min
Director: Lukas Grevis
 
NEITHER SUNNY NOR CLOUDY / NIT’ JE VEDRO NIT’ OBLAČNO
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, 11 min. 
Director: Anvar Nijemčević
 
NIGHT WALKS / NOĆNE ŠETNJE  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, 2018, 25 min
Director: Julie Rodrigue
 
 
 

 
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