Country: Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year: 2010
Duration: 95'
tales of the drina Bosnia and Herzegovina. The village of Bratunac is no-man’s-land; it is controlled by UN troops and oppressed by Serbian nationalism. Stanojka «Cana» Tešic, with the help of her daughter Vladana and of Radmila Zarkovic, makes a decision: to contact the pacifists of former Yugoslavia and reunite them for the first time after the war. The initiative works and this is how the association Forum Zena came to be. Over time, Cana creates a tight-knit national and international network and manages to protect the women of a country in which their role had been annihilated, turning her social dream into a political reality. “Sometimes a moth searches for warm shelter in a home. It suddenly appears out of the fog which hides it and a short while later there it is, flittering around the old lamp and risking its life. This film is a child of the attempt, which lasted for years, to reconstruct epics which are denied, daily experiences which are alive and pulsing and able to talk to our recollections, to our memory, of how we could have been ‘if,’ and of the smell of fireplaces, when the sun sets and the illegible fog rises over houses and mosques.”
Biography
film director
Andrea Foschi
Andrea Foschi (Venice, Italy, 1978) graduated in theory of literature in Valencia. In 2006 he received his degree in directing from Rome’s Accademia del cinema e della televisione, where he now teaches photography directing in documentaries. He is now involved in a project about Greek Orthodox monasticism and, with Marco Neri, is working on a biographical documentary about the president of Uruguay.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Andrea Foschi, Marco Neri:
Roma Residence (coregia/codirectors Marco Stefano Innocenti, Pietro Pasquetti, mm, doc., 2007), El largo camino (doc., 2009) Urbanità possibili (collettivo/collective, cm, doc., 2009), I racconti della Drina (doc., 2009).
Marco Neri
Marco Neri (Rome, Italy, 1975) ) graduated in film studies from Rome’s La Sapienza University. He went on to study at the Accademia del cinema e della televisione in Rome, where he received his two-year degree in documentary directing and where he later taught. With Andrea Foschi, he is now making a biographical documentary about the president of Uruguay.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Marco Neri:
Faces (cm, doc., 2009).
Andrea Foschi, Marco Neri:
Roma Residence (coregia/codirectors Marco Stefano Innocenti, Pietro Pasquetti, mm, doc., 2007), El largo camino (doc., 2009) Urbanità possibili (collettivo/collective, cm, doc., 2009), I racconti della Drina (doc., 2009).
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Andrea Foschi, Marco Neri
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Andrea Foschi, Marco Neri, Tommaso Orbi
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Foschi
montaggio/film editing
Tommaso Orbi
suono/sound
Fabio Ancillai
interpreti/cast
Vladana Tešic, Stanjka «Cana» Tešic, Radmila «Rada» Zarkovic, Nikolina, Alexandar «Aco», Milica, Anda, Sinisa, Dusan, Amra, Amela, Ceca
produttori/producers
Andrea Foschi, Marco Neri, Federico Schiavi, Milan Todorovic
produzione/production
Nova Skola, Suttvuess Soc. Coop.
coproduzione/coproduction
Rts - RadioTelevizija Republike Srpske
vendita all’estero/world sales
Andrea Foschi
