A film by a Croatian director about the crime of Serbs against Bosniaks will be shown at the Cannes festival

Serbian director and screenwriter Vladimir Perišić will be on the jury of the most important film festival in the world, the one in Cannes, which will be held for the 77th time from May 14 to 25.

Vladimir Perišić, who premiered his latest film “Lost Country” as part of the competition selection of the Cannes Film Festival “Critics’ Week” last year, next month will find himself in a different role – as a member of the jury of the Short Film and La Cinef selection. .

In addition to the Serbian director, the jury consists of producer and director Claudine Nougare (France), Italian Paolo Moretti, who for a time was deputy director of the Venice Festival, then another French woman – director, screenwriter and producer Marie-Castille Mention Char and Belgian actress Lubna Azabal. who will also be the president.

– The Cannes Festival is one of the roads we all dream of crossing. I am honored that in this selection the focus is on young filmmakers who will present their short films and I can’t wait to discover that richness. I would like that journey to be challenging and wonderful. When your film is selected for this mythical place, it is a message of love, world recognition, and when you preside over that selection, it is a source of pride – said the president of the jury.

As part of this selection, 11 short films will be shown, selected from as many as 4,420 titles, coming from 10 countries, announced the leaders of Cannes. One of them, which will be seen by the audience on the Croisette, is the Croatian production “The Man Who Couldn’t Be Silent” by Nebojša Slijepčević, and it deals with the kidnapping, that is, the war crime in Štrpci. The plot of the film follows a passenger train traveling from Belgrade to Bar. But he was stopped by armed members of Serbian paramilitary forces at a small station in Štrpci in BiH. After receiving a tip that there were Muslim passengers on the train, they found 19 of them and executed them shortly after it departed. There were 500 witnesses, but no one dared to oppose them, except for one man – retired officer Toma Buzov. The movie stars Goran Bogdan, Alexis Manenti, Dragan Mićanović, Silvio Mumelaš, Lara Nekić, Priska Ugrina, Dušan Gojić…

Let us remind you that the director Vladimir Perišić already reached the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 with his graduation work – the short film “Sleeping Eye”. The same was the case with the first feature film, which was made six years later, “Ordinary People”, which was shown in the Cannes selection “Critics’ Week”. And last May, with the award-winning production “Lost Country”, he not only presented himself in the same Cannes selection, but also triumphed, considering that the young Jovan Ginić, who plays the main role, was declared the best young actor, reports nova.rs.

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Nebojša Slijepčević graduated in film direction from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He started his career as one of the authors of the acclaimed television series Direkt.

He directed two successful feature-length documentaries (Gangster te voli and Srbenka), as well as numerous short documentaries and feature films shown at the world’s most important documentary film festivals, where they won more than 40 awards.

It was awarded four times at the Sarajevo Film Festival, twice at ZagrebDox, and it is worth mentioning the Doc Alliance Selection Award and entry into the shortlist for the European Film Award with the film Srbenka.

For the same film, he received the annual state award Vladimir Nazor for the best film achievement in 2018. He was nominated three times for the Prix Europa award for his television films. He works as a lecturer and mentor at Restart’s Documentary Film School.

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