One of the better films I saw at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival was Aida Begić’s feature debut Snow (Snijeg) – but though I attended the press Q&A the next day, it was all in untranslated Bosnian (or at least the first ten minutes was: I’d made my excuses and left by then).
So I was delighted to find Michael Guillen’s English-language Q&A with Begić on his The Evening Class blog – not least because it cleared up a couple of the film’s mysteries. I’m still not totally convinced by the magical realist elements, but it’s now clearer that the young boy’s miraculously quick-growing hair had a more definite narrative function than I picked up on at the time.