As the 11-day film festival drew to a close, the AFI Fest 2006 juries awarded prizes Sunday to a wide range of international contenders. Taking home the international feature competition’s narrative ...

Jasmila Zbanic’s “Grbavica” received the grand jury prize for international feature Sunday at the AFI Fest. “Buddha’s Lost Children” and director Mark Verkerk received the international docu grand ...

20/02/2009 - This case study offers an insight into the process that brought this project onto the big screen. The Golden Bear winner of the Berlinale 2006 is a co-production between Austria, ...

Awash in daily news of mass savagery, collective memory grows short. We feel for the women of Afghanistan, but who these days remembers the war widows and rape victims of the 1992-1995 civil war that ...

I am a full-time filmmaker. I don’t shoot films every day but I write screenplays, run my production company DEBLOKADA (in translation “breaking the siege”), [and] I organize workshops and produce ...

“Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” is a film that’s both sensitive and a shocker, an unvarnished portrait of a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her daughter in postwar Sarajevo. It’s ...

Taking home the international feature competition's narrative grand jury prize at AFI Fest was Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams," left, starring Mirjana Karanovic. By Anne Thompson, ...

Jasmila Zbanic’s “Grbavica” received the grand jury prize for international feature Sunday at the AFI Fest. “Buddha’s Lost Children” and director Mark Verkerk received the international docu grand ...

Esma (Mirjana Karanovic) is a single mother struggling financially. The government support grant is nowhere near enough to provide for herself and her daughter Sara (Luna Mijovic) - especially now, as ...

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