Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Year: 2012
Duration: 90'
Orphaned during the Balkan Wars, twenty-year-old Rahima and her brother Nedim, who is fourteen, live in Sarajevo thanks to the money the girl brings in as a waitress. After a turbulent adolescence, Rahima finds comfort in the Islamic faith and would like her brother to follow her example. But Nedim has a difficult character and, when he gets into a fight with the son of a dangerous man, the girl realizes that
he is living a double life.
Biography
film director
Aida Begic
Aida Begić (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1976) studied directing in Sarajevo and presented as her graduating project the film First Death Experience, which was selected by the Cinéfondation of Cannes in 2001. Two years later, she directed her second short, North Went Mad and debuted in feature films in 2008 with Snow, selected for the Semaine de la critique in Cannes and winner of the Grand Prix and other awards. A founder of the independent production company Film House Sarajevo, her film Children of Sarajevo participated in Un certain regard at the last Cannes Film Festival, receiving a jury mention.
FILMOGRAFIA
Prvo smrtno iskustvo (First Death Experience, cm, 2001), Sjever je poludio (North Went Mad, cm, 2003), Snijeg (Snow, 2008), Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2011), Djeca (Buon anno Sarajevo, 2012).
Declaration
film director
“I noticed that, when my friends and I start talking about the war, we suddenly become passionate and lively. I wonder if our life during the war was really better than our life today or does it just feel that way because the war is something that we had left behind. Were people really more human in the most difficult period in the history of our city or it just felt that way because we were all equally miserable? And what about those of us who have no recollection of what my generation refers to as ‘normal (pre-war) life’?”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/ director, screenplay, producer Aida Begić fotografia/cinematography Erol Zubčević
montaggio/film editing Miralem S. Zubčević
scenografia/ production design Sanda Popovac
costumi/costume design Sanja Džeba
suono/sound Igor Čamo
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Marija Pikić (Rahima), Ismir Gagula (Nedim), Nikola Đuričko (Tarik), Staša Dukić (Selma) Velibor Topić (Melić) produzione/production Film House Sarajevo
coproduttori/coproducers Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stöter, François d’Artemare, Semih Kaplanoglu
coproduzione/coproduction Rohfilm, Les Films de l’Après-Midi, Kaplan Film distribuzione/ distribution Kitchenfilm
montaggio/film editing Miralem S. Zubčević
scenografia/ production design Sanda Popovac
costumi/costume design Sanja Džeba
suono/sound Igor Čamo
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Marija Pikić (Rahima), Ismir Gagula (Nedim), Nikola Đuričko (Tarik), Staša Dukić (Selma) Velibor Topić (Melić) produzione/production Film House Sarajevo
coproduttori/coproducers Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stöter, François d’Artemare, Semih Kaplanoglu
coproduzione/coproduction Rohfilm, Les Films de l’Après-Midi, Kaplan Film distribuzione/ distribution Kitchenfilm
