Bosnia
Movies about the Bosnian War 1992-1995
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- DirectorJoaquim SapinhoI went to Bosnia after war ended, in 1996, when the Danton Peace Accord was being implemented. Bosnia had been divided in two entities, which separated the two main opposing forces of the conflict; the Serb Bosnians and the Muslim Bosnians. Two years later, in 1998, I returned to Bosnia - This movie is a diary of the two voyages, in which I deal with the memories of the war, the death and destruction and with the victim's struggle who don't know how to return home.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
- DirectorJennifer RawlingsDocumentary film that explores the lives of several women who survived the war in Bosnia. Their stories are poignant, hopeful and moving. Filmmaker Jennifer Rawlings takes us on a powerful journey through the aftermath of war. Rawlings was inspired to make this film because of her own experiences in traveling to war zones for a decade for the USO. She wanted to give a voice to the forgotten victims of war. The film was made with the hope and belief that the world can be changed and made better - one story at a time.
- DirectorJasmin DizdarStarsThomas GoodridgeFaruk PrutiTony PetersIn London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.
- DirectorMarina Andree SkopAn intimate journey through the Bosnian Blues.
- StarsRobert FiskThe British correspondent in Lebanon, "Robert Fisk", tries to find the roots of misunderstanding between the Muslims and the Western World, and why some Muslims do not trust the West. He travels from Lebanon to Palestine,then to Egypt, and finally concludes his journey in the terrorized Balkan. He also makes a short trip to Poland, showing an eloquent description of the Holocaust.
- DirectorBoris MalagurskiStarsRade AleksicJames BissettJohn BosnitchThe Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorSabina VajracaA family returns to post-war Bosnia to reclaim their stolen property and are forced to examine their past.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilos SamolovHristina PopovicA homophobic Serbian gangster is forced to make a deal with wedding planner gay activist, to assemble a team which will protect the upcoming Pride Parade in Belgrade, and in exchange his fiancée can get her dream wedding.
- DirectorRichard ShepardStarsRichard GereTerrence HowardJesse EisenbergA young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them.
- DirectorAndrea BorettiDaniel TarozziWhat is going on in Sarajevo twelve years after the war? We went there to discover it. A document about today's Sarajevo and it's inhabitants beliefs.
- StarsJodhi MayDamian LewisMatthew MacfadyenAfter seeing devastating results of ethnic war in former Yugoslavia soldiers from UNPROFOR peace units find it impossible to return back to their civil lives in the UK.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
- DirectorDavid AttwoodStarsLinus RoacheVincent PerezLia WilliamsThe horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends, who end up on opposing sides in the war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.
- DirectorBenjamin FilipovicSemezdin MehmedinovicStarsSejo BajraktarevicIsmet BajramovicGigiDrama and documentary about war, people and art in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- DirectorFrank BeauvaisStarsGerard MalangaSerge Teyssot-GayNo more colors, no more leaves and no more gazes. Everything has been swamped down in a shapeless disaster. Everything's wrecked. The only thing left in the middle of a fallen universe is this shack crammed with people relieving themselves. Everything is dead and empty. Georges Hyvernaud "Skin and bones"
- DirectorPredrag AntonijevicStarsDennis QuaidNastassja KinskiPascal RollinA hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
- StarsRobin EllisSlobodan MilosevicFranjo TudjmanThis documentary series covers the struggles of the Yugoslavian people during the collapse of their country, and the subsequent wars to finally find hope with the signing of the Final Peace Accords.
- DirectorMandy JacobsonKarmen JelincicStarsJadranka CigeljNusreta SivacMovie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAlmedin LeletaAlmir PodgoricaAn alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
- DirectorAhmed ImamovicStarsMario DrmacTarik FilipovicRade SerbedzijaIn the 1990s the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege of the Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and take shelter there, waiting for Milan's father Ljubo to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and present him as his wife Milena, a secret discovered by Milan's best friend, Lunja. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes almost unbearable for Kenan. His one companion is Ranka, a waitress in a local café, whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers around her.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna Zimic MijovicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsStephen DillaneWoody HarrelsonMarisa TomeiAmerican and British journalists Flynn and Michael Henderson, along with their respective news teams, meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, the group find an orphanage run by the devoted Mrs. Savic near the frontline. Feeling sympathy, Henderson decides to take one of the children, Emira, illegally back to England.
- DirectorAngelina JolieStarsZana MarjanovicGoran KosticRade SerbedzijaDuring the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.