The Glory of Emptiness 2022
What can connect a searcher, a neighborhood girl, an artist, five books, five dead and dogs around town.
What can connect a searcher, a neighborhood girl, an artist, five books, five dead and dogs around town.
Austrian journalist asks her editor to send her to Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to investigate disappearance of girl.
Marko, Adi, Aco and Dejan hag out in front of block of flats in Fuzine. Marko is pissed because he quit playing basketball and because the sexy TV presenter doesn't notice him and because his father Radovan is going to beat him up for quitting basketball. Adi is irritated by the fact that his brother Sanel is a drug addict and because his father Mirsad prefers to shang waitresses somewhere in Austira rather than to deal whit this. Makarovicka chefur girl gives a hard time to Aco and he would like to tak a revenge on Damjanovic - bus driver. Dejan is anxious because his mother Sonja wants to move to Slovenske Konjice. Policemen stop the boys one night and their world starts to disintegrate.
December 2023. To spread holiday cheer, a theatre company is touring small towns of post-war Bosnia with a play about Santa Claus. While children are enchanted by the play, the appearance of Santa Claus rekindles old disputes among the adults.
Four young queer students – Lovro, Nenad, Sttevan and Ivan – drop out of college to join the Partisans. After the war, they are all established film artists. In 1957, while they are making their latest movie, censors ban a scene depicting the dissatisfaction of the army, and they are offered “rehabilitation” through making propaganda pictures.
Omer returns to his homeland after a long time, there he encounters those from his past.
Sarajevo, after 11th September 2001. Karim works as deminer in the hills around the city while waiting to be sent to Iraq with his group. His main reason - the money. But a love story with unhappy ending will change his life. It's a tale about a love triangle between him, his best friend Juka and Ivana, girl from Belgrade, but at the same time this is a story about the clash between West and Islam and how one young Bosnian copes with this issue.
The story of the exhibition that continues to provoke controversies in the former Yugoslavia region, but also a portrait of two artists in a struggle who, in the world of emptiness, still maintain their backbone discipline.
Follows two friends and their adventures in Sarajevo during the 1980s.