10 minutes by Ahmed Imamovic - BEST SHORT FILM IN EUROPE

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amarpitar
April 09, 2006

10 minutes by Ahmed Imamovic. 1994. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Rome, Italy. How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002. Thi...

10 minutes by Ahmed Imamovic. 1994. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Rome, Italy. How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002.

This short film, as its title indicates lasts only 10 minutes, but it tells a much longer story which unravels only in our imagination upon seeing the end of the film. While 10 minutes in someone's life mean nothing, they can be fatal in another: a boy and his loving family, tragedy in a war-torn city, death and destruction. All in just ten minutes. The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia. Although the Rome part was not filmed on the original location, that does not take away anything from the quality of the film, it was just a symbolic element anyway. Cast is great, story is very compact and well written, direction dynamic and precise. There is nothing out of place in the film: well structured, stripped of false pathos, realistic, it is very straight forward. In other words, this is a jewel of a film, and it was not by chance that it won the award for the best European short film in 2002. 10 minutes for me is definitely one of the most moving and powerful films about wartime Sarajevo. Behind the scene: I read that the director Ahmed Imamovic, in search of Japanese for the role of the tourist, had to go to the Japanese Embassy in Sarajevo and ask one of the staff to perform in the film. Luckily for the director, the Embassy allowed one of their employees to star in the film.

The story tells how SERBS have killed civils, old people and children!

10 MINUTA film Ahmeda Imamovica
Godina 1994. Rim i Sarajevo. Koliko razlicitih stvari moze da se desi za 10 minuta! Film dobitnik nagrade za najbolji kratki film 2002. god. u evropi!
Language/Jezik: Bosnian/Bosanski with english subtitle

Category: Entertainment

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bosnia bosna sarajevo war balkan croatia serbia rome yugoslavia ahmed imamovic islam refresh hercegovina mostar short

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RogertheDon (3 days ago) Show Hide

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You have to realize that someday you'll die...

xxbulletproof (3 days ago) Show Hide

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Christiane Amanpour did a great job though because she brought the most attention to bosnia at the time, she did a really good job on reporting and bringing peace to the country in very bad times even though you can not make peace between all people she did what she could, if anyone brung peace to this world it was Christiane Amanpour.

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Yeah same here, but then again , this is only 1 boys life out of the many people that had to go through this during the war in bosnia in the 90's , its sad to see the world we live in and what actually happens in 1 country while it is not known at the time not much attention was on bosnia when people were in concentration camps , getting killed etc.

xxbulletproof (3 days ago) Show Hide

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actually there is popular media just not that well known to the public, movies such as "Behind enemy lines" and "No Man's Land" which are only 2 of the many other movies.

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I love when people dont read the description it says exactly where this movie was filmed..

presidentofsomalia (5 days ago) Show Hide

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are are you happy or??

presidentofsomalia (5 days ago) Show Hide

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TRUE VERY SAD

crazybubbles18 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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that...was depressing and beautiful at the same time.

TheWedabest (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Thank you for tellin the truth. They only make movies that show sarajevo during the war. Thank you for telling the truth.

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Well, it is what it is and it's the truth.

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