10 minutes by Ahmed Imamovic - BEST SHORT FILM IN EUROPE

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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

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: April 9, 2006 at 7:22 am
Author: amarpitar

Length: 00:09:15
Rating: 4.76
Views: 554598

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

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Video Comments:
clockworkhorror (December 5, 2008 at 2:33 am)
this sent chills down my spine,
amazing film.
gullu07 (December 4, 2008 at 2:14 pm)
bosnaaaaaaaa volimmmm teeeeeeee
radracer456 (December 3, 2008 at 11:48 am)
GREAT camerawork, impressive
johno2 (December 3, 2008 at 3:34 am)
Wow That was some epic Steadicam work.
bOsaNkaxBaa (December 2, 2008 at 4:31 pm)
amazing film!
youngtuzlablood (November 30, 2008 at 3:33 pm)
bravo majstore!
this is an excellent film
made me sad at the end.
Im so glad that my family got through the war.
007badboy88 (November 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm)
What an outstanding piece of work. 10/10
Visualcs (November 29, 2008 at 7:09 am)
This is amazing !
my2kidsmom (November 29, 2008 at 12:15 am)
Incredible. This film really captured the contrast between different life experiences happening simultaneously. I often think about what is happening in other parts of the world, in other people's lives, in the same moment. I am so thankful that I haven't experienced what this boy has - not yet, anyway.
david89pfc (December 3, 2008 at 8:58 am)
there were thousands of little sad stories like this in war time yugoslavia.