Bosnia and Herzegovina director Pjer Žalica will shoot a new film with the unusual name "Concentrate, Grandma (Koncentriši se, baba)," it was said at yesterday's gathering on the festival square. After last year's success on the international festival stage of the film "A Good Day for Work" directed by Martin Turk, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Turkish State Radio and Television (TRT) joined forces again to produce two more micro-budget feature films as part of the joint project Sarajevo, City of Film for global screens (SCF GS). This time the project focuses on directors from Southeast Europe whose films were previously screened and awarded at the Sarajevo Film Festival and who now have fantastic ideas for films that could be shot in Sarajevo this year. Žalica's film will be produced first. It is a darkly humorous portrait of a family set on the eve of the last war in Sarajevo, which will undoubtedly entertain viewers and make them think about common social memory. Filming of the film is planned for October this year, and for now it is confirmed that Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Jasna Žalica, Nikola Kojo, Gordana Boban, Alma Prica, Jadranka Đokić, Vedrana Božinović, Branimir Popović, Admir Glamočak, and Mira Banjac will star in it.
Sarajevo, the city of film for global screens, approved the production of a new feature film by Pjero Žalica, who says: I was lucky because the invitation was quite broad; about twenty colleagues from the entire region, which is wider than the former Yugoslavia, were invited to send and present their movie ideas. Mine was chosen; it's a concept I've been developing for a year and a half, so I had a finished story. I entered this project quite willingly, and I am very excited to work on a story that I strongly believe in, with a team that I greatly respect, who are my friends but also fantastic professionals from the region, and in a production that is ready to work such demanding projects with a small budget in a short time. What is our definite commitment is that we don't think about the film as low-budget but about the potential to make a good film. I think we will make a film that can be interesting to a wide audience and festivals because it will have a message that is more artistic than what we see on television. Žalica told about the cast:
FILM STARTS FILMING IN THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER AND ENDS IN MID-NOVEMBER, ŽALICA CONFIRMED, STRESSING THAT IT WILL BE READY IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH/AMER KAJMOVIĆ
- These are such serious people that they would never agree to record anything and what anyone records. We are friends; we respect each other; it helped that they worked with me, but also with the Sarajevo Film Festival, TRT, and with each other. Those are the things that attract people. Although everyone reacted to the story of the film. Despite the complicated circumstances, we can make a good film. Žalica confirmed that the film starts shooting in the last week of October and ends in mid-November, stressing that the film will be ready in February or March. Since the very title "Concentrate, Grandma" is unusual and humorous, Žalica said that the film is the same. The circumstances in which all this happens are the last days of peace, which are the last days of that family that is falling apart. It is. The film is a black comedy in which everyone gathers around the bier of a dying mother. The circumstances in which all this happens are the last days of peace, which are the last days of that family that is falling apart. Although all of this, when retold, can be a direct allusion to the disintegration of the state, it is a family story, humorous, in our way, darkly humorous. I think people will have fun watching the movie. But in the end, they will lump in their throat.
Jovan Marjanović, head of the Industrial Department of the Sarajevo Film Festival, spoke about whether this type of co-production, although it is a low-budget production, can be profitable: - Sarajevo, the city of film within Sarajevo Film Festival, and the Turkish state radio and television are already working several years; now they are embarking on another feature-length, low-budget feature film. Let's be precise: those low-budget frames are 400,000 euros. That's the total cash budget for filming, production, and post-production. I would say that, although this budget is considered low, in the context of feature films in Bosnia and Herzegovina, because the average budget for Bosnia and Herzegovina is feature films over a million marks, both TRT and SFF invest additional value in the film so that it reaches a higher value. Therefore, the organization, in addition to having a low budget, can be the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. cinematography, because by merging with the right partners and creating additional value through that, we can make up for the financial shortfalls. If it's about profitability, in our context, the smaller the budget you invest, the more value you get, and the more chances you have to get your money back. These are films that are not made solely for the sake of profit, because our original interest is to make them for money to come from abroad, in this case from Turkey, to employ BiH. film and stage workers, authors, scenographers, costume designers, people who do sound, and composers. So the importance of such a project is the revitalization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. cinematography. Mirsad Purivatra, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, emphasized his satisfaction with this partnership with one of the largest public broadcasters in Europe, which will bring great stories to cinemas and television screens in the region and Turkey. (https://www.oslobodjenje.ba/)
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