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- DirectorMila TurajlicStarsSrbijanka TurajlicMila TurajlicMira BoskicFor Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
- DirectorRobert MillerHenry SingerStarsRatko MladicCamille BiblesElvedin PasicThe war crimes trial of one of the most infamous figures from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
- DirectorOla FlyumDavid HebditchStarsSefer HalilovicAlija IzetbegovicRadovan KaradzicPrelude of the Srebrenica massacre (1995).
- StarsShahida AbdurahmanovicElma DizdanDragan GraovacThe story of the hunt for and final arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the former President of Serbia, who had been indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes dating from the Bosnian-Serb war in the 1990s.
- DirectorLarysa KondrackiStarsRachel WeiszMonica BellucciVanessa RedgraveA drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
- DirectorMandy JacobsonKarmen JelincicStarsJadranka CigeljNusreta SivacMovie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsRadovan KaradzicMomcilo KrajisnikEduard LimonovIn this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting. He takes on a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary but on the power of images: a mass baptism before the final battle, the bizarre antics of the remaining members of the Karadjordje dynasty and the tribal chants of Serbian peasant/soldiers at the front line. The result is more universal enquiry into the nature of the nation state and the ethnocentric view of the world.
- DirectorTassos BoulmetisStarsGeorges CorrafaceIeroklis MichaelidisRenia LouizidouA Greek boy grows up to become a talented cook after political turmoil forces his family to leave Turkey.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsAlma PricaOlga PakalovicMijo JurisicIn order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
- DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsMirjana JokovicBoris IsakovicSvetlana BojkovicThis movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.
- DirectorDavid AttwoodStarsLinus RoacheVincent PerezLia WilliamsThe horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends, who end up on opposing sides in the war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsAleksandar BercekDejan CukicLeon LucevThe impact of a selfless deed of benevolence and heroism right in the middle of the raging Bosnian war inextricably intertwines the lives of five people who are still affected by its consequences, over a decade later.
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAlmedin LeletaAlmir PodgoricaAn alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
- DirectorPredrag AntonijevicStarsDennis QuaidNastassja KinskiPascal RollinA hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsJasna DjuricicIzudin BajrovicBoris LerAida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsFilip SovagovicVelibor TopicSlaven KnezovicIn 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsAleksandar StojkovicVuk KosticTihomir StanicSerbian soldiers discover a man locked in a basement at the end of the war. After he is freed, people start disappearing.
- DirectorDino MustaficStarsErmin BravoAleksandar SeksanErmin SijamijaThe parallel coming-of-age stories of a father living in Sarajevo during World War II and his son living through the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna Zimic MijovicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
- DirectorOzan AçiktanStarsOzan GüvenMeryem UzerliBelçim BilginUpon turning 18, Salih leaves his orphanage to embark on a journey that will uncover bitter truths of a war-ridden past.
- DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsZorica NushevaLabina MitevskaStefan VujisicA Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground.
- DirectorEduart GrishajStarsRozafa CelajMateo CurriAgron DizdariA serbian young girl visits Albania in search of the roots of an old story about her Grandpa during the War of 1941. She falls in love with an albanian guy, starting an "impossible" relationship between two nations divided by war.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorGoran RadovanovicStarsMilena JaksicFilip SubaricNenad StanojkovicKosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten year old Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.