28/09/2022 Mediterranean film festival
Audience’s favourites: Domestic masterpieces at 23 MFF
Mediterranean Film Festival is screening seven masterpieces of domestic cinematography within the off program ‘Film Centre Sarajevo’. These films were the audience and jury favourites at festivals around the world at the time they were created.
The film 'Second Blast' by Vlado Balvanović documents the working and living conditions of the construction workers during the constuction of access roads, loading docks, as well as rock blasting in the quarry in Vareš. We are watching the miners from Kakanj in the documentary 'Where Young Walnuts used to Grow' by Bakir Tanović, and Vlatko Filipović is taking us to 'The Land of Neretva'.
A story about Roma who try to stay in one part of Bosnia, but their surrounding does not accept them due to prejudice will be screened at this edition of the festival. This is the film 'Tent City' directed by Drenko Orahovac. Petar Ljubojev brings us back to the miners and the mentality of the working class in 'Tenancy Rights of Safer the Miner', while Milutin Kosovac takes us on a journey with the goat herder Ante in the film 'I Have Nothing against God'.
In this program, the film 'Pharaoh Stipe from Vidoši', directed by Ratko Orozović, will certainly attract the attention of film lovers. A story of a man who, after stopping his education, gained knowledge by reading various books. Pharaoh Stipe is a unique example of a self-taught architect with his own style who overcame life circumstances.
As a legal successor of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian cinematography (Bosna film, Sutjeska film, Studio film) Film Centre Sarajevo takes care of preserving the film heritage through archiving, restoration and digitalisation of the archive materials. In the Film Centre Sarajevo catalogue there are more than 70 feature fiction films, over 600 documentary and short films and thousands of metres of film materials that witness of the assets of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian film, and of turbulent history of the country in the period between 1945 and 1992.