Praznik u Sarajevu (English: Holiday in Sarajevo) is a 1991 film set in Western Europe and Sarajevo, with a set of Sarajevan thieves returning home for the Christmas holidays. It was directed by Benjamin Filipović and written by Abdulah Sidran.
, 2h16 Directed byEmir Kusturica GenresDrama, Comedy-drama ThemesFilms about families, Politique, Political films ActorsMiki Manojlović, Mirjana Karanović, Mustafa Nadarević, Mira Furlan, Davor Dujmović, Pavle Vuisić Rating76% The movie opens in June 1950 with a local neighbourhood drunk Čika Franjo serenading field workers. He sings Mexican songs (as it turns out, he does so out of self-preservation, figuring it's safer for him to steer clear of songs originating from either of the two dominant global powers — U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. — in the current climate of Cold War and Yugoslavia's paranoid repressive internal apparatus looking to identify and remove enemies of the state in the wake of the Tito-Stalin split) while local children, including Malik, climb trees and play around. The story is from the perspective of the boy, Malik, whose mother Sena tells him that his father is on a business trip. Malik is a chronic sleepwalker.
Directed byAdemir Kenović OriginPortugal GenresDrama ThemesFilms about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism ActorsJohn Turturro, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Tara Fitzgerald, Anton Rodgers, Mustafa Nadarević, Ronald Pickup Rating61% The movie starts in 1492, in Spain. Jews are being chased everywhere. They have two choices: either to convert or to face trial and execution. Isabel (Katherine Borowitz), and Clara (Tara Fitzgerald) are growing up with terror. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. In Venice, Isabel organizes a secret passage in order to give refuge to the refugees who were fleeing away in the fear of the Inquisition. Isabel decides that, in order to be safe, her family must flee to Istanbul, the only place where Jews are not hated. But Clara refuses to leave, because she is in love with a Venetian named Paulo Zane (John Turturro). When Isabel somewhat tries to force Clara to move to Istanbul, Clara gets furious at the former and is almost ready to break all family ties with Isabel. In these battles of misunderstandings, Clara's young daughter Victoria (Hannah Taylor-Gordon) is trapped, who finds that she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her own father.
, 1h38 Directed byDanis Tanović OriginBosnie GenresDrama, War, Comedy, Action, Historical ThemesPolitique, Political films ActorsBranko Đurić, Katrin Cartlidge, René Bitorajac, Georges Siatidis, Filip Šovagović, Mustafa Nadarević Rating78% Two wounded soldiers, a Bosniak (Čiki, portrayed by Branko Đurić) and a Bosnian Serb (Nino, portrayed by Rene Bitorajac) are caught between their lines in the no man's land, in a struggle for survival. The two soldiers confront each other in a trench, where they wait for dark. They trade insults and even find some common ground. Confounding the situation is another wounded Bosniak soldier (Cera, portrayed by Filip Šovagović) who wakes from unconsciousness. A land mine had been buried beneath him by the Bosnian Serbs; should he make any move, it would be fatal.