Ljubljana Film Festival
Closing ceremonies at LIFFE The Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFE) is a little festival in Slovenia that has provided a critical view of film for the last 20 years. It reviews the best in international cinema, provides a film retrospective that involves democratic changes in Central and Eastern Europe, and is committed to promoting promising filmmakers, European film, and productions from remote parts of the world, like traditional Peruvian folklore or a baroque film noir from Malaysia or...
Read MoreReview: Five Minutes of Heaven
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel Starring: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca Five Minutes of Heaven, which was shown at the Sarajevo Film Festival, focuses on themes familiar to the countries of this region. Bosnian people can definitely relate to a story of reconciliation between two individuals on opposite sides. This film deals with harsh, dark emotions, depicting the true nature of humanity. One of the film’s actors, James Nesbitt, along with screenwriter Guy Hilbert and director Oliver Hirschbiegel, spent a couple days at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Five Minutes of...
Read MoreReview: Broken Embraces
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Penelope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez After a screening at the Cannes Film Festival, the great Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos), was also shown on the Sarajevo Film Festival. According to many critics, the film pays homage to Ingmar Bergman, while others have compared Broken Embraces to the simplicity of Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy. However, Broken Embraces still carries echoes of Almodóvar’s previous work, who is now in his filmmaking maturity. A distinctive stylist,...
Read MoreReview: Donkey (Kenjac)
Directed by Antonio Nuic, 2009 Starring: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Tonko Lonza, Nebojsa Glogovac, Natasa Janjic, Ljubo Kapor One of the Croatian candidates for an Oscar award, the film Donkey, directed by Antonio Nuić, had already won a couple of awards at the Pula Film Festival when it opened the Sarajevo Film Festival. The film is set in a village, virtually in the middle of nowhere, in Herzegovina. It tells the story of the relationship between a father and a son. Boro, an angry man, is driving his wife, Jasna, and son, Luka, from Zagreb to his home village of Drinovci,...
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