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Zagreb Film Festival
19 - 25 October 2008

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ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

Telephone
385 1 48 29 477
Fax
385 1 45 93 691

e-mail
info@zagrebfilmfestival.com

03.10.2008
‘Snow’ running for the EFA a

The film ‘Snow’ directed by Aida Begić that will be featured as a part of this year’s main program has recently been nominated for the European Discovery award by the European film academy. This award is handed to young and perspective directors for their first movie, and this year three more directors are competing for the award with Aida Begić: Steve McQueen from Britain (‘Hunger’), Turkish director Seyfi Teoman (‘Summer Book’) and Sergey Dvortsevoy from Kazakhstan (‘Tulpan’).

An incredible story about the survival of residents in an eastern Bosnian village, Slavno, throughout 1997, brought the director a title of the first representative of magical realism from Bosnia & Herzegovina (see interview) as well as another grand prix on the Critique Week of the past Cannes film festival as well as the main jury award on the Chungmuro Film Festival in Seoul. Trailer of 'Snijeg' that was presented before the French premiere of the film can be seen here.

Aida Begić was born in Sarajevo in 1976. She graduated directing on the Sarayevo art academy in 2000. Her graduation thesis was a short film, ‘First Death Experience’, presented on the official program of Cinefondacion Film festival in Cannes 2001, won numerous awards on festivals around the world. Her second short film, ‘North Went Mad’, was directed in 2003. Aida Begić teaches directing on the Sarajevo Academy, and she founded an independent production company Mamafilm with her colleague Elma Tataragić in 2004. The first movie Mamafilm produced was - Snijeg.
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PRESS CONFERENCE - FRIDAY

ZFF sixth day FRIDAY

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PRESS CONFERENCE - THUESDAY

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Preparations for the festival

Bib in the city

Press conference ZFF 13.10.

Anna Magnani - exibition opening