TRT Films in Sarajevo Film Festival
5 films produced by TRT and co-produced by TRT will be at the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival…
TRT productions and TRT co-produced films will hit the headlines in the “Sarajevo Film Festival”, which will start on 13 August this year in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo Film Festival, which will be held for the 27th time between 13-20 August, will open with the TRT production “Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair”. TRT co-productions “Quo Vadis, Aida?” and “Forgiveness” will be shown in the “In Focus” selection of the festival, while in the “Cinelink”, the industry section of the festival, TRT co-production “Hesitation Wound” and “To Carnations a Song” will take part.
The Sarajevo Film Festival, the most important film festival in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, will feature five films produced by TRT and co-produced by TRT this year. The festival, which will open with Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s TRT production “Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair”, will feature the best films produced in the last year in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In the festival’s “In Focus” selection, TRT co-productions “Quo Vadis, Aida?” and “Forgiveness” will be screened. In the industry section of the festival, in “Cinelink”, “Hesitation Wound”, which won the “TRT Co-Production Award” in 12 Punto last June, and “To Carnations a Song”, which won the “TRT Co-Production Award” in 12 Punto 2019, will take place.
The opening of the festival will be with TRT production “Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair”
After the opening ceremony of the festival, which started to be organized in order to erase the traces of the war in Bosnia (1992-1995) and to make the capital Sarajevo a center of culture and art again, Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s movie “Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair” will be screened. The TRT-produced film tells the rivalry of the two best cevabi (Sarajevo-style meatballs) masters of Sarajevo, who are friends and neighbors despite having very different characters. The film, which will make its world premiere at the festival, will be screened outdoors on Friday, August 13, with the participation of more than a thousand spectators.
Oscar-nominated “Quo Vadis Aida?” will be screened in Sarajevo
TRT co-production “Quo Vadis, Aida?”, directed by Jasmila Zbanic and produced by Damir Ibrahimovic, is a co-production of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France and Norway. The film, which is about the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, takes place at the United Nations Base in the days of the genocide, when tens of thousands of Bosnians, including women and children, were killed by Serbian soldiers in the city of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The film, which made its world premiere in September 2020 in the Main Competition section of the Venice Film Festival, the most important festival in the world, competed in the Toronto Film Festival; After Venice and Toronto, it took part in many important film festivals and won awards. In Turkey, the film received the Best Film Award in the International Competition at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival last October. “Quo Vadis Aida?” competed in the “Best International Film” category at the 93rd Oscar Awards, and competed in the Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film categories at the BAFTA Awards, which is considered the UK’s Oscar.
Award-winning TRT co-production “Forgiveness” in In Focus Select
Directed by Cem Özay and produced by Ömür Güner, TRT co-production “Forgiveness” is about the problems of an authoritarian father who behaves his family oppressive and unjustly. He makes living by trading wood in a mountain village. TRT co-production “Forgiveness”, which made its world premiere at the 33rd Tokyo Film Festival, one of the biggest film festivals in the world, was supported by T.C. General Directorate of Cinema of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The film, which won the “TRT Project Development Special Award” at the Antalya Film Forum and the “Another Cinema Distribution Award” at the Istanbul Film Festival’s industrial section, Meetings on the Bridge, will be included in the “In Focus” selection of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
TRT co-productions “Hesitation Wound” and “To Carnations a Song” are at Cinelink!
The projects “Hesitation Wound”, which won the “TRT Co-Production Award” at the 12 Punto TRT Script Days held in June this year, and “To Carnations a Song”, which won the “TRT Co-Production Award” at the 12 Punto in 2019, will take part at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section, Cinelink.
The “Hesitation Wound” project, directed and scripted by Selman Nacar and produced by Burak Çevik and Diloy Gülün, was selected for the “Joint Production Market” of Cinelink, the industry section of the festival. The project, which is in the script stage, is about the story of lawyer Nesrin, who had to face her own conscience at the sentencing hearing of a murder suspect that she believed to be innocent and defended for a long time. Co-written by Bekir Bülbül and Büşra Bülbül; The project “To Carnations a Song”, directed by Bekir Bülbül and produced by Halil Kardaş, is included in the “Work in Progress” selection of the industry section of the festival, Cinelink, where films in the editing phase compete. The shooting of the film, which is about the journey of an elderly refugee Musa and his little granddaughter Halime and their struggle for survival in difficult climatic conditions, was completed in the past months.