Film SNOW FOR WATER by Christopher Villiers, after World premiere in BH Film Program of last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, will have its’ International premiere at Berlinale Generation KPlus program.
This year’s Generation program was Selected from considerably more than 2,000 submissions, a total of 65 full-length and short films from 39 production and co-production countries have been invited to compete in the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions.
SNOW FOR WATER was written and directed by Christopher Villiers, and the actors in this film are India Tanović, Hadrian Tanović, Saša Krmpotić, Amar Čustović, Davor Golubović and Elza Gradaščević. The film was produced by Sarajevo Film Academy and 2020 Productions Ltd in collaboration with Sarajevo production company Prime Time and was supported by Obala Art Centar from Sarajevo.
The Forum program will this year present 44 films, 35 of which world premieres. In this program there will be two Bosnian films presented. THE TREE by André Gil Mata and THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIĆ by Marta Hernaiz Pidal.
Film THE TREE is coproduction between Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the story about an old man who just wants to forget the past and a child who doesn’t know how to handle with his present. Bosnian co-producer was Pravo ljudski Film Festival. André Gil Mata has completed his PHD in film directing (DLA) at Sarajevo Film Academy.
THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIĆ by Marta Hernaiz Pidal (Bosnia and Herzegovina / Mexico) is story about Nada Kadić, a single mother who just realized that her daughter has autism spectrum symptoms, will undertake a trip around the Balkans to reconcile with her past and accept her new destiny. Aida Hadžibegović-Äombić and Hava Äombić played main roles in this film and the script was written by Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Aida Hadžibegović-Äombić. The film was supported by Sarajevo Film Academy and produced by Cinevendaval production company. Marta Hernaiz is also former Sarajevo Film Academy student, where she completed her post-graduate studies and whose short film FINE was presented at Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation in 2016.
Film TODAY IS 11TH JUNE 1993 by Clarissa Thieme (Germany / Bosnia and Herzegovina) will be presented in Belinale 13th Forum Expanded. TODAY IS 11TH JUNE 1993 was developed on the basis of an intense engagement with Nihad Kreševljaković and the Library Hamdija Kreševljaković Video Arhiv in Sarajevo, a private collection of amateur videos, in which the inhabitants of Sarajevo documented their lives during the siege. In this collection, Thieme found a science-fiction short film in which a group of young people with a lot of black humor imagines the escape from the enclosed city with a time machine. TODAY IS 11TH JUNE 1993 is part of the initiative IZMEÄU NAS I BETWEEN US by Nihad Kreševljaković, Jasmina Gavrankapetanović and Clarissa Thieme. IZMEÄU NAS I BETWEEN US was part of Berlinale Forum Expanded, Visionary Archives 2016. This film was co-funded by Einstein Foundation Berlin and realized with the support of Graduate School at the Berlin University of the Arts & Berlin Center for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences
The same program will present film ARAF by Didem Pekün, a Turkish, Greece and Bosnian and Herzegovinian co-production. ARAF is an essayistic road movie and diary of a ghostly character, Nayia, who travels between Srebrenica and Sarajevo to Mostar in Bosnia. She has been in exile since the war and returns for the 22nd memorial of the Srebrenica genocide. The film is guided by her diary notes of the journey which merge with the myth of Daedalus and Icarus.
Delegation of Sarajevo Film Festival, Association of Filmmakers as well as BiH producers and authors will attend this year's Belinale.
