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Snow Q&A

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 [...]

Snow

Snow

Snijeg Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/France/Iran, 2008, colour, 100 minsThe Sarajevo Film Festival got off to a strong start last night with the Bosnian premiere of Aida Begić’s debut feature, already the winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique. If it initially seemed incongruous that a small-scale drama whose most telling [...]