Snow (2008 film)
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| Directed by | Aida Begić |
| Produced by | François d'Artemare Benny Drechsel Karsten Stöter Elma Tataragić |
| Written by | Aida Begić Elma Tataragić |
| Starring | Zana Marjanović |
| Music by | Igor Camo |
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100 minutes |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany France Iran |
| Language | Bosnian |
Snow (Bosnian title: Snijeg) is the 2008 debut film by Aida Begić.
The movie takes place in autumn 1997, in the small Bosniak village of Slavno, in central Bosnia. Only the women and girls are left, along with an old grandfather and a little boy. All of the men have disappeared on account of the Bosnian war.
The most entrepreneurial of the women, Alma, a young widow, attempts to help the families survive by producing plum jam and pastries, but the village is too far away from the market to have any customers. Accidentally, she and another women meet a truck-driver from Zvornik, named Hamza, who offers to carry the goods to the market for them on the following Wednesday. However, he does not show up as agreed.
Suddenly Miro and Marc, agents of a Serb-backed foreign company, enter the town and propose to buy the whole area for 70,000 marks. After discussing the proposal, half of the women of the village agree, hoping to gain a better life in town. However, Alma and her old and ill mother-in-law Safija resist, even as winter approaches and the village is at risk to remain completely isolated from the outer world. Following a malfunction of their car and a sudden storm, the contract dealers are forced to remain in the village: one of them, Miro, is injured, and finally reveals that the bodies of the lost children are buried in the Blue Cave. All of the villagers travel to find the remains and reconcile with their memories. The day after, the first snow begins falling down softly, as Hamza, the truck-driver who proposed to carry their goods to market, drives in.
The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes' Critic's Week, as well as the special prize of the jury at the Chungmuro Film Festival. In addition, was awarded The Church of Iceland Award (from the New Vision category), at the Reykjavik International Film Festival, as well as Brizzolara Family Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution, at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The film had also won the Odyssée cinema/Council of Europe Human Rights prize (at the Etoiles et Toiles du cinéma européen festival), Jury's Special Mention at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema, as well as Special Mention at the 14th Festival on Wheels. The film was awarded special prize for freedom of expression at "Festival autorskog filma" (Belgrade), and at the Trieste Film Festival it won the Special Award of the Jury and the Audience award.
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