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+ Best Bosnian Movie of the Year + Best Low-Budget Movie of the Year
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| A girl contemplating something beneath a grey sky makes up this poster for Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica: Land of My Dreams |
Our heroine toils in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly Yugoslavia) to make ends meet, as her teenage daughter wants her late father's documents for use at school...
Grbavica: Land of My Dreams is written and directed by debuting Bosnian Jasmila Zbanic (Love Island (2014)).
The film tells a very esteemed human story with excellent performances from the mother Esma (Mirjana Karanovic (Here and There/Tamo i ovde (2009))) and her love interest in particular.
We are given a valuable insight into an overlooked corner of the world here. Grbavica is very oppressive, and one can wonder where its tension lies (for a while.) SPOILER It deals with the horrendous use of rapes as an instrument of war, in this case by Serbian soldiers in the Bosnian War. The film requires patience; it is slow. - But the payoff in the third act is extremely rewarding. Grbavica is tremendously moving; it has hope, and it is a terrific film.
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Watch a short trailer for the film here
Cost: 700k $
Box office: 848k $
= Big flop (returned 1.21 times its cost)
[Grbavica premiered 12 February (Berlin International Film Festival) and runs 90 minutes. 14 production companies and support bodies were involved with the financing and making of the film. Shooting took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including Sarajevo, from February - May 2005. It opened #76 to a 4k $ first weekend in 1 theater in North America, where it peaked in 3 theaters but didn't attain a higher rating, grossing 43k $ (5.1 %). The biggest 3 markets were Germany with 300k $ (35.4 %), Spain with 250k $ (29.5 %) and Mexico with 56k $ (6.6 %). The film won the Golden Bear prize in Berlin along with 2 other awards, an AFI award, was nominated for 2 European Film awards, among other honors. It was selected as Bosnia-Herzegovina's Oscar candidate but was not nominated. Zbanic returned with a segment in Stories on Human Rights (2008) and on her own with Na Putu (2010). Karanovic returned in Stizu Dolari (2004-, TV-series) and theatrically in Fraulein/Das Fräulein (2006). Grbavica: Land of My Dreams is certified fresh at 98 % with a 7.55/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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