At 12:00 in Cinema 3 at Cineplexx Sarajevo, with documentary film BATO, BH Film Program has been opened.
In this film, through the combination of statetements of film professionals who new Bato Čengić firsthand as a professor first, and as colleague later, or they had an opportunity to work with him on one of his films. Mirza Pašić tells the story about a man who wasn't always the easiest man to work with, but whose contribution to bh. cinema is beyond questioning.
Bahrudin Bato Čengić was born in 1931 in Maglaj, and died in 2007 in Sarajevu. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo, and specialized in London. He worked in film from 1951 and he is considered to be one of the representatives of Yugoslav “black wave”. He thought Scriptwriting at the Academy of Perfroming Arts in Sarajevo and he is best known for his debute feature LITTLE SOLDIERS (1967) that has been screened in the Official Selection of Cannes Film Festival, ROLL OF MY FAMILY IN WORLD REVOLUTION (1971) that has been showen at Venice Film Festival and his third film, that has also been at Venice, LIFE OF THE SHOCK FORCE WORKER (1972). Because he liked to deal with controversial subject, he was banned from working on feature films until 1983. He spent the war in Sarajevo where he stayed working on his projects until the last days of his life.
After BATO, today you will have an opportunity to watch the first block of documentary films as well as feature documentary PROTEST IN CARIESLAND by Damir Pirić, a film about Protest, rock bend from Sarajevo, that has been one of the most recognizable bends in Sarajevo during the war.
We will end the day with the first feature film in this year's program, debute film of visual artist Emina Kujundžić. A PERFECT LOVE STORY WHERE NOTHING GOES WRONG OR DOES IT…? is a artistic questioning of the film art, work process and how women are treated in films and how women treat films.
