Cinema

 
Bosnian Culture: Cinema

If the Bosnian filmmaker best known is undoubtedly Emir Kusturica (b. 1954), who, however, chose a long time to live part of the year away from the Balkans, the cinematic tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years after the Dayton agreements, has experienced a moment of great vivacity. The directors were given the task not only to make known to the international community the horrors of war, but to reflect on the causes and reasons that may be contrary to hope for the return of a peaceful interethnic coexistence. Among the names of directors Bosnian most significant to report Danis Tanović (1967), which won the Oscar for No Man's Land (2001), bitter narrative reports on the days of the disaster, and especially Pjer Zalica (b. 1964), author of Welcome Mr. President (2003), known documentary of Sarajevo who was among the most active members of the saga (Sarajevo Group of Authors), a group of intellectuals, poets and artists founded in 1990 by director Ademir Kenović (b. 1950), years of the siege. The same Kenović, along with Zelica and others, was the author of MGM Sarajevo, a long documentary sull'assedio and civil war made in 1992-94, and touching the perfect circle (1997), the first film shot in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war ended. Finally remembered the name of Srdan Vuletic (b. 1971), author of Summer in the Golden Valley (2003).