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Film reviews
Anja Opačić
"Uncle" (2022) is a debut film by directors David Kapac and Andrija Mardešić, which has won several awards, including the Best Screenplay Award at the Pula Film Festival in 2022.
Balša Vukčević
Ena Sendijarević, a Dutch-Bosnian director, continues to deal with the aporias of personal geography in her new production Sweet dreams. Through a phantasmagorical lens, feeling the pulse of a failed empire ̶ the Dutch Indies at the beginning of the 20th century ̶ the author points to the dismay not only of the ruling class of that time, greatly exhausted by decay due to epochal movements, but also of the native, racially mixed population under the onslaught of internal contradictions. The creative strengths of the film are visible almost entirely on the formal level. High stylization, layered framing (dynamic and static), counterpoint effect of often muffled music suggest a surreal atmosphere that blurs the line between reality and the dreamy and dreamy.
Darko Dragić
The debut film by Molly Manning Walker, "How to Have Sex," premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival, delves into the frivolity of youth. Through its narration, the author primarily explores the need for belonging, i.e., fitting into today's kind of society, while also giving great importance to the subtext of youth "party culture."
Jovana Dinić
"Sweet Dreams" is the second film by Ena Sendijarević, a Dutch filmmaker of Bosnian-Herzegovinian descent. The film is set in the early 20th century on the territory of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies. After the death of a wealthy Dutch landowner, his family is faced with a will that bequeaths the entire inheritance – sugar cane plantations, sugar mills, and a luxurious house – to his illegitimate son born to a native servant.
Barbara Surjan
"Carbide" (2022) is the feature debut of Josip Žuvan, a director and screenwriter known for several short films and television series, who with this film demonstrates his broader capabilities. "Carbide" ignites the fuses of family structures and through technology offers a fresh perspective on the generation gap.
Ena Jovančić Vidaković
Luxembourg, Luxembourg by Ukrainian director Anton Lukić exudes simplicity and honesty, and autobiographical elements undoubtedly contribute to that impression. In this tragicomedy, as the director himself described it, we watch two twin brothers in search of their father, which will take them from their native and modest Lubnja to magnificent Luxembourg where all dreams come true. Or...?
Emilija Kvočka
In the political thriller "Power" by Matyas Prikler, the main characters find themselves bound and tainted with the blood of the innocent. During a hunting trip, an accidental murder occurs, implicating a minister, which the authorities are determined to cover up at all costs. The entire investigation is assigned to Steiner, a secret service detective, who will resolve the case not by uncovering the truth he already knows from the beginning but by finding someone to take the blame. The concept of power in this film will be depicted as powerlessness.
Anja Šćepanović
In the stylized satire "Sweet Dreams," directed by Ena Sendijarević, themes of colonialism, belonging, patriarchy, and relationships with nature are explored through a complex family drama.
Sara Joksimović
"The Museum of Revolution" is a 2021 film directed and written by Srđan Keča. This film received several awards, notably the "Heart of Sarajevo" for Best Documentary at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The idea itself emerged in 2015 when "The Museum of Revolution" was a video installation presented at the Berlin Film Festival. By following the daily lives of three heroines living in the Museum of Revolution, not to preserve exhibits, but themselves, Keča raises questions about today's social circumstances, the truth we turn a blind eye to, and whether the fire within a person is stronger than anything else.