Serbian and Bosnian movies about the Bosnian war
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- DirectorChristian WagnerStarsLabina MitevskaSenad BasicKatrin SassYears after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.
- DirectorAida BegicStarsZana MarjanovicJasna BeriSadzida SeticPost traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.
- 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.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsAlma PricaOlga PakalovicMijo JurisicIn order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacNatasa TapuskovicVesna TrivalicWhat could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDino MustaficStarsErmin BravoAleksandar SeksanErmin SijamijaThe parallel coming-of-age stories of a father living in Sarajevo during World War II and his son living through the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
- DirectorSabina VajracaA family returns to post-war Bosnia to reclaim their stolen property and are forced to examine their past.
- DirectorLukas SturmStarsAsli BayramSenad BasicAdnan HaskovicAustrian journalist asks her editor to send her to Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to investigate disappearance of girl.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMira FurlanBoris LerA story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna LozicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorAida BegicStarsMarija PikicIsmir GagulaBojan NavojecSiblings Rahima and Nedim are the Bosnian war orphans. She works as a restaurant chef and earns just enough money to survive.
- DirectorOleg NovkovicStarsZarko LausevicMilica MihajlovicLjubisa SamardzicThe story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...
- DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsMirjana JokovicBoris IsakovicSvetlana BojkovicThis movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.
- DirectorGorcin StojanovicStarsBranka KaticNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicMen, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogden, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogden recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsAleksandar BrujicVjeran MiladinovicMilja MilenkovicA transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war torn country.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicDragan NikolicIn a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily. Since one of the patients is planning to "get married" the doctor takes all the patients out on the street and uses the wedding as an excuse. A person "who can not fly" goes out to the streets with them, but he only exists as a person in the minds of the patients. However, trouble starts arising on the first step they take outside the clinic. In freedom the patients (not used to the games of the "normal society") start doing whatever they want to or feel like, not paying attention to and ignoring the chaos they are causing...
- DirectorRadivoje AndricStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicDubravka MijatovicGoran Radakovic1993 Serbia is a place torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his painter friend and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a phone-sex hotline and the two eventually fall in love. Another friend of his is a treasury guard in a bank governed by a shady lady known as "Serbian mother", notorious for cheating the thousands of creditors. The couple plans to rob the bank and run away to a remote sunny island with palms.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsAleksandar BercekVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicBogdan DiklicRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.
- DirectorGorcin StojanovicStarsSergej TrifunovicMirjana JokovicDragan JovanovicA noir love story between a Serbian girl and a mysterious young Albanian, set against the backdrop of the recent Balkan conflicts.
- DirectorOleg NovkovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacLjubinka KlaricIvan JevtovicSuburbs of Belgrade - ghetto in the ghetto. Hopelessness, claustrophobia, post-war atmosphere, depression and loneliness of a generation in the last months of 2000th year and looks like it will never end. The lives of friends, all their needs and ambitions, dreams and expectations are worthless...