MINORITY COPRODUCTIONS
SIRIN
DIRECTOR: Senad Šahmanović
CROATIAN PREMIERE
COUNTRY: Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
YEAR/DURATION: 2023 • 87′
drama
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Senad Šahmanović, Claudia Bottino
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Aleksandar Jakonić
- EDITOR: Tomislav Pavlic
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dragana Baćović, Ognjen Smolović
- COSTUME DESIGN: Lina Leković
- SOUND: Luka Gamulin
- SCORE: Ivan Marović
- MAKE UP: Bojana Kojičić, Aleksandra Bulatović, Milka Stojanović, Vukica Čabarkapa
- LEAD ACTRESS: Danica Ćurčić
- LEAD ACTOR: Marko Baćović
- SUPPORTING ACTRESSES: Jelena Simič, May-Linda Kosumović, Lidija Kordić, Jasna Đuričić
- SUPPORTING ACTORS: Momčilo Otašević, Izudin Bajrović, Nikša Butijer, Milivoje – Mišo Obradović, Fatmir Spahiu
- RODUCER: Veliša Popović
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Cut-Up d.o.o. (Crna Gora)
- CO-PRODUCED BY: Sekvenca (Hrvatska), On Film Production (Albanija), Buka Film (Kosovo), Sarajevo Dokument (Bosna i Hercegovina), Alliance de Production Cinématographique (Francuska )
- CO-PRODUCERS Alem Babić, Dritan Huqi, Jure Pavlović, Fatmir Spahiu, Ines Tanović
Synopsis
Sanela, a Montenegrin of Muslim background who left the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s after her father was kidnapped and killed alongside other Muslims, comes back to the Balkans after twenty years abroad. She has betrayed her origins, erased her own culture, and become a true Westerner. They say the past is a foreign land and that the one who departs and the one who returns are not the same person anymore.
Festivals and awards
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023
Herceg Novi Film Festival 2023
Best Debute Feature Film
Free Zone Film Festival
Bihać Avantura Film Festival 2023.
Otranto Film Festival 2023. – Best Score
Trailer
About the director
Senad Šahmanović
graduated in film and TV directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje and is currently doing his MA at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. As a student, he directed several short fiction and documentary films, which saw great success in Montenegro and abroad. His greatest success was the short film Tranquility of Blood, which was screened at more than 50 international film festivals across the world, and won numerous international awards, of which the Grand Prix at the prestigious International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece) stands out. Awards at Banja Luka, Skopje, and Priština followed. Since 2015, he has been working at Radio Television Montenegro as a director, and has made a few docu-fiction projects, including two docu-fiction series. Sirin is his first feature film.
Screening
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- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 16.7.2024.
16:00
- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 16.7.2024.
FREE ENTRANCE
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- VALLI CINEMA – WEDNESDAY 17.7.2024.
22:00
- VALLI CINEMA – WEDNESDAY 17.7.2024.
FREE ENTRANCE
