Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Duration: 170'
A series of encounters and trips in Bosnia-Herzegovina. On New Year’s “In those places, the war still weighs heavily on the present, on political
Eve, Zoran is walking through the streets of his hometown, Sarajevo,
and thinks back to his childhood spent during the war. In the outskirts
of the city, in the “Serbian” sector, Saša defends nationalistic ideals.
Aziz, a former soldier in the Bosnian Armija, follows the Drina river
upstream to where his mother’s village used to be located. Other
stories and memories intertwine during the voyage, while in Srebrenica,
dancers rehearse for a performance and, for a moment, the war
seems far away.
issues, on the psychology of the people and on human relations.
This tragic past looms over a present in which ‘today’ still doesn’t
exist yet. The feeling of crossing through suspended time guided me
as I made this documentary and, to a certain extent, gave form to its
structure, to the sequence of the capitals, in which the people and
the story take their own time. Maybe they were trying to break out
of the limbo that imprisons them.”
Biography
film director
Daniele Gaglianone
Daniele Gaglianone (Ancona, 1966) started collaborating with the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza in 1991. He made fiction and non-fiction shorts like La ferita (1991), which received an award from the film festival Cinema Giovani di Torino. He directed his first feature I nostri anni in 2000, which was selected by the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, while his following film Nemmeno il destino (2004) won the Special Jury Award from the Torino Film Festival and the David di Donatello Award for Best Documentary. In 2017, he presented Granma at the Locarno Film Festival, a medium-length film he made with the Nigerian filmmaker Alfie Nze.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Nella solitudine del sangue (cm, 1990), Era meglio morire da piccoli (cm, 1992), L’orecchio ferito del piccolo comandante (cm, 1994), La carne sulle ossa (cm, 1996), I nostri anni (2000), Le domeniche del Signor Mantaut (doc., 2003), Nemmeno il destino (2004), Alle soglie della sera (doc., 2005), Rata neće biti (la guerra non ci sarà) (doc., 2008), Pietro (2009), Ruggine (Rust, 2011), La mia classe (2013), Qui (doc., 2014), Granma (coregia/codirector Alfie Nze, mm, doc., 2017), Dove bisogna stare (doc., 2018).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Daniele Gaglianone
soggetto/story Daniele Gaglianone, Andrea Parena, Enrico Giovannone
fotografia/cinematography Daniele Gaglianone, Andrea Parena
montaggio/film editing Enrico Giovannone
suono/sound Vito Martinelli
interpreti/cast Zoran Herceg, Saša, Aziz, Hajra ćatić, Mohamed Bektić, Jasmina Mameledžma
produzione/production BabyDoc Film
coproduttore/coproducer Gianluca Arcopinto
vendita all’estero/ world sales BabyDoc Film
soggetto/story Daniele Gaglianone, Andrea Parena, Enrico Giovannone
fotografia/cinematography Daniele Gaglianone, Andrea Parena
montaggio/film editing Enrico Giovannone
suono/sound Vito Martinelli
interpreti/cast Zoran Herceg, Saša, Aziz, Hajra ćatić, Mohamed Bektić, Jasmina Mameledžma
produzione/production BabyDoc Film
coproduttore/coproducer Gianluca Arcopinto
vendita all’estero/ world sales BabyDoc Film
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