4:00pm

UNCLE JOVO ROCKS (CIKA JOVO CAR)
Documentary. Directors: Mirela Trepanic and Emir Z. Kapetanovic. 2007. 40 minutes.

Uncle Jovo Rocks is a film about Education Builds Bosnia and Herzegovina, an organization that has spent the past 15 years supporting and providing scholarships for children who had lost one or both parents in the war. The organization is run by Jovan Divjak, a humanitarian, a former general in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Army.

5:00pm

BUILDER'S DIARY (DNEVNIK GRADITELJA)
Documentary. Director: Jasmila Zbanic. 2007. 40 minutes.

The shapes of the renowned Suleiman Han's bridge, better known as the Old Bridge, were not linked to any time or style, either Ottoman or Western European. The film covers the reconstruction of the Bridge destroyed in 1993 during war operations. Through the eyes of the builder, we follow the complex reconstruction process, which was completed using the same techniques as the ones used in 1566 by master Hayrudin, the apprentice of the great builder Sinan. We bear witness to the exciting two-year struggle that the builder has while trying to uncover the secrets woven into the bridge.

BELIEVERS (VJERNICI)
Documentary. Director: Namik Kabil, 2008. 23 minutes.

The story of multiethnic Sarajevo today sounds like an ironic and sad stereotype because it refers to the life in Sarajevo before the war, which is largely gone. Still, there are people who go against the flow, such as members of the “Pontanima” choir who gather in a Franciscan church in a suburb of Sarajevo.

6:30pm

RECEPTION
Loyola University Chicago
Sullivan Center
6339 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626

8:00pm

SNOW (SNIJEG)
Narrative feature. Director: Aida Begic. 2008. 100 minutes.

Bosnia, 1997. Four women, two old ladies, four girls, an old man and a boy live in the war torn village of Slavno. Their families have been killed and their bodies never found. Living with the presence of their missing loved ones, the women have created a very special world, one in which the absent are nevertheless present. Trying to keep themselves alive by keeping all memories and their dreams, they have made a dreamland out of their village without even being aware of it. But still, they are trying to fight for existence.

Slavno is remote from the rest of the world, but the first snow brings the threat of total isolation and risk for life in the village. As it gets closer, Alma, a stubborn young woman in her late twenties, believes they can not only survive but even prosper by selling plum jam and other fruit and vegetable products on a deserted road.

Two businessmen unexpectedly visit Slavno demanding the residents to leave the village offering money in return. The villagers face a dilemma: should they accept the offer that could save their lives but destroy their souls?
A sudden storm traps the businessmen in Slavno, forcing them to face a problem bigger than anything they expected - the truth!

3:00pm

HEROIN
Documentary. Director: Emir Z. Kapetanovic. 2009. 25 minutes.

Denis, Benjamin and Emir are guys who had different experiences with drugs in theier lives. All the stories are connected to Denis, who has little desire to get off heroin.

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4:30pm

SEVDAH
Documentary. Director: Marina Andree. 2009. 67 minutes.

Sevdah is a feeling about life imbued with melancholy, yearning and beautiful sorrow. In Bosnia it is expressed through their traditional sad song – sevdalinka. The death of their mutual friend and lover of sevdalinka, Farah, has brought musician Damir and director Marina together. Trying to deal with their own loss and grief, they decide to create a film about sevdah. They create it as an emotional, musical, lyrical and visual journey through the soul of Bosnia, through their own emotions and memories

DREAMERS
Documentary. Director: Nermin Hamzagic. 2009. 25 minutes.

Samir and Amir are hip-hop musicians from the village of Hajvaz and their socially engaged lyrics cause their physical and psychological abuse. Director Haris Pašovi? invites them to participate in his new theatre piece.

6:00pm

BUICK RIVIERA
Narrative feature. Director: Goran Rusinovic. 2008. 86 minutes.

The story of Buick Riviera is told through fates of two men, both Bosnian (ex Yugoslavian) emigrants, belonging to the two different religious groups that fought for the city of Sarajevo during the War. One fateful night, these two emigrants meet on a deserted road in the middle of America, with some unexplainable force bringing them together and the next 24 hours they spend together, mentally sabotaging each other and trying to figure out who is guilty of what, they change their lives forever without proving anything, just like the war itself.

8:00pm

CLOSING PARTY
Art Café
4658 N. Rockwell Street
Chicago