83 Films & TV Shows Set In Bosnia and Herzegovina
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As If I Am Not There
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable
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The Abandoned
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and HerzegovinaThe story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.
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Sergio
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐น๐ฑ Timor-Leste ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sรฉrgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1910sLove triangle story between the village gendarme ฤorฤe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.
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Ordinary People
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sThe story of a soldier faced with mission of executing prisoners in an unspecified place and time. The film follows a hot summer day in the life of Dลพoni, a twenty-year-old recruit, who is sent to an abandoned farm on an unknown mission. The soldiers wait to battle unnamed terrorists, but instead, a bus full of prisoners arrives to the barracks. The commander orders the soldiers to execute the prisoners. At first, Dลพoni is shocked by the cruel killings, but as more prisoners arrive, he begins to enjoy the executions.
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The Tour
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sYear 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
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Snow
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThe daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage.
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The Hunting Party
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990s The 2000sHow can they find the world's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't... By actually looking? โ A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
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The Living and the Dead
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990s50 years apart, two armies will fight to the same death... โ In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
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In the Name of the Son
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sAfter escaping execution, Tarik, a Bosnian prisoner of war, immigrates to the United States looking to leave his past behind.
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
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Warchild
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sYears 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.
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Bosnia Diaries
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThe diary of two travels to Bosnia (1996 and 1998) and the clash with the memories of war. โ I 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 victimโs struggle who donโt know how to return home.
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Go West
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sIn the nineties 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 there they take shelter, 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 begins to 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 cafรฉ, a woman whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers ...
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War Crimes
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThriller - After graduating college, a group of friends from the UK decide to take a trip to the Balkans. Little did they know that a war was about to break out. As the fighting spreads to the city of Sarajevo, they must escape for their lives through the countryside. After witnessing a massacre in Bosnia, they are detected and pursued by a ruthless Yugoslav People's Army officer and his brutal fighters. With limited supplies, winter approaching and murderous special armed forces chasing them down, will they ever make it home alive? - James Bickersteth, Dean Bolt, Jan Castellari
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Back to Bosnia
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sFilmmaker Sabina Vajraca documents her Bosnian Muslim family's return to their home of Banja Luka, Bosnia, to recover their stolen belongings many years after being forced to flee to the United States. In Bosnia, they witness the devastation of the city, visit war crimes sites, and confront the family that has been living in their former apartment -- with all their furnishings -- for a decade.
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Life Is a Miracle
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sSet during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
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Notre musique
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sJean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from documentary and fictional sources. The second concerns two young Jewish women attending a European arts conference in Sarajevo. The final segment concerns the after life.
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The Red Colored Grey Truck
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia The 1990sBelgrade, the summer of 1991. Yugoslavia is falling apart. Gavran can't get a driving licence because he is color blind. He is a rural Bosnian introvert obsessed with trucks. So, as soon as he is released from prison, he steals a truck to go on a joyride. Suzana, a city girl, discovers she is pregnant, but until she's due for an abortion, she decides to go to Dubrovnik. She hitchikes and Gavran almost runs her over. She is unhurt, but she blackmails him to take her to Dubrovnik. Two people from different worlds, equally removed from the real one. For him she is the first woman he can talk to; for her he is just another idiot to add to the long list of them that she has so far compiled. But the pressure of danger and the intimations of war force them together. The world about them has become so absurd that they seem to each other the only sober people left.
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Summer in the Golden Valley
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and HerzegovinaAt the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the body, so the debt automatically passes from the father to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his entire family become subjects of ridicule. Fikret, who is practically still a child, is decisive to "redeem his father's soul". Wishing to repay his father's debt and to secure the forgiveness, Fikret wanders into the real world of Sarajevo, the world that is ruled by post-war chaos, misery and poverty and becomes an ideal target for two corrupted policemen who wish to "help" him: they plant the kidnapped girl on him.
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Fuse
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sTwo years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.
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Remake
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThis film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.
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Where Eskimos Live
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThe only thing he wanted was money. What he found was worth much more. โ Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.
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Behind Enemy Lines
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sHis only weapon is his will to survive. โ While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
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No Man's Land
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA lot can happen between the lines โ Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
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