International Film Festival

Transcending Borders

Bosnia-Herzegovina - Balkan - Worldwide

A young couple is moving into an apartment to live together. Pressured by responsibilities, they leave the new home for a bicycle ride that brings them to a yard full of things for sale- things from the life one man is leaving behind.

Lume as a wife and mother, is left alone in two different period times, for different existential reasons. She hates the war, but she is forced to fight.

Secondhand films the myriad objects imbricated in everyday life, how they appear, disappear and reappear again in countless ways and how the value and meaning they hold changes with each passing. It is a look at the way these ordinary objects affect - and occasionally rattle - our lives in strange and unexpected ways. For Mirza [Adnan Kreso], a furniture loader in the market at Stup on the edge of Sarajevo, the second-hand watches sold and resold in the market become a focus for his unrequited thirst for horology. While for those who bargain-hunt through the flea market’s lanes, these motley objects become an affordable trove of life's essentials. Flotsam and jetsam from other lives, the discarded objects swirl and eddy like shards of memory that carry little meaning, until the chance appearance of some memorabilia collides with the present and brings the film to a close with a violent sad surge.

On 8 September 2019, Sarajevo hosts its first Pride March. Are people ready for this event?

Nemas is a worker at a train repair factory in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, like many young people around him, he is planning to go and work in Slovenia. Between homeland nostalgia and dreams for a better life, the film explores the dilemmas that arise when you decide to leave your country.