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DCM Films Compete for Best Doc at Sarajevo Film Fest
The Competition Programme for Documentaries of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) has been announced this week. We are delighted that among the twenty films competing for the Best Documentary Film award there are two films which were developed at the Discovery Campus Masterschool. The award comes with 3,000 Euros prize money. Please find the complete list of films selected for the doc competition programme at the SFF Website.
Croatian producer Sinisha Juricic (Nukleus, Zagreb) and director Petar Oreskovic developed their film Dead Man Walking at the Masterschool 2005. In September 2004, their protagonist Himzo Muratovic returned from the dead. Himzo turned up in a taxi in his Bosnian Muslim village, 12 years after he had disappeared at the height of the Serb terror. For several days the village celebrated the return of the long-dead Himzo Muratovic. But after the initial rejoicing, people from the village started asking questions.
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories by Andrey Paounov (DCM 2004) has been well-received at festivals and screenings since its Cannes premiere this May. In the film, a small town and its hopeful citizens are about to embark on a bright new journey. Massive rusty cranes, foreign investors, and the joyful chants of cheerleaders carry the dream of a great nuclear future. Disturbed only by gigantic stinging mosquitoes, the townsfolk celebrate the atomic hurray by engraving the nuclear power plant logo on buildings and soup bowls. Amidst the apparent atomic prosperity, however, lies a past that no one wants to remember.
