Bosnia picks “Death in Sarajevo” for foreign language Oscar raceAugust 31, 2016 - 16:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The latest film from Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic, Death in Sarajevo, has been selected as Bosnia & Herzegovina's submission in the best foreign-language film category at the Academy Awards, The Hollywood Reporter said. Tanovic, who won an Oscar for No Man's Land in 2002, revisits the theme of the impact of the Balkans civil war of the 1990s in Death in Sarajevo, which premiered at the Berlinale this year where it won a Silver Bear. The film is set in the fictional Hotel Europa, modeled on Sarajevo's famous Holiday Inn, where diplomats and members of the international press corps stayed during the war. Set in 2014 on the day of the 100th anniversary of the assassination in Sarajevo of Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand, the film explores the way the complex history of the Balkans continues to affect people and their interactions. A Bosnian-French co-production adapted from the stage play Hotel Europe by French intellectual and political activist Bernard Henri-Levy, which was staged in Sarajevo in 2014, the film was selected as the country's foreign-language Oscar submission on Wednesday by the Filmmakers Association of Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel. Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |