Projects

BorderPass 2019 - documentary film workshop 2019

In 2019, the Swiss Youth Film Festival together with the film festivals Dokufest (Kosovo), Pravo Ljudski (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and KREF (Serbia) carried out the BorderPass project for the second time. In July 2019, 15 young people - aged 15-19 - from Switzerland, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina attended a documentary film workshop in Sarajevo and produced five short films on the topic of "Memory of Spaces" during a labour-intensive week.

Koridor priča / Corridors of Stories

Regie: Berin Rizvanović, Marko Ničić, Samuel Scheidegger
Dokumentarfilm, 2019, OV,d, 5:00, Bosnien und Herzegowina

The train station in Sarajevo becomes a space of witnessing the current period of immigration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the struggle of people that travel thousands of kilometers to look for a better life in Europe.

Unutra / Inside

Regie: Matija Ilić, Ella Rocca, Djibril Vuille
Dokumentarfilm, 2019, ohne Dialog, 9:00, Bosnien und Herzegowina

The film portrays the diversity of people riding the tram in Sarajevo through their gestures and postures, while becoming an attentive observation of the types of social classes that take this public transport.

Koža / Skin

Regie: Benjamin Hrbenić, Dženana Selmanović, Nikolaj Jaber
Dokumentarfilm, 2019, ohne Dialog, 3:00, Bosnien und Herzegowina

Observing different texture of building facades, the film becomes a metaphor for the aging of the skin in humans.

Čistilište / Purgatory

Regie: Ilija Gavrilović, Lolita Mikhailova, Maya de Roche
Dokumentarfilm, 2019, ohne Dialog, 5:00, Bosnien und Herzegowina

In waiting rooms of different hospitals in Sarajevo, through postures and gestures or different people, the films closely observes the anxieties of the patients waiting in this metaphorical purgatory.

BorderPass Artist Talk 2020 with Kumjana Novakova

Kumjana Novakova works in the field of cinema and audiovisual art. During her studies she focused on social sciences and social research studies in Sofia, Sarajevo, Bologna and Amsterdam. She currently works as a film curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje. She works for various film festivals, cinema platforms and exhibitions and curates a wide range of programmes. She is a guest lecturer at the Non-fiction Department of ESCAC, Barcelona, Spain, and has previously taught at Béla Tarr's film.factory in Sarajevo. As a writer, she develops projects between cinema and contemporary art, exploring in particular the interplay between identities, memories and the collective self.