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 3:22 pm
Author: amarpitar

Length: 00:09:15
Rating: 4.76
Views: 487740

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

Video Comments:
alexanderehmann (August 20, 2008 at 10:19 pm)
this shortfilm made me understand why i have to be glad about my life ...
kunc (August 20, 2008 at 9:39 pm)
serbs commenting this video should just chill the fuck out
qaysar82 (August 20, 2008 at 2:48 pm)
Amazing short video

really really amazing
mibshahid (August 20, 2008 at 7:11 am)
Extraordinary!!! best to show the real...
sicopx (August 20, 2008 at 4:51 am)
nice
Magnitude54 (August 19, 2008 at 11:37 pm)
Great short film.
juliayllw (August 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm)
I can't believe how predictable this film is. The only thing that made it the best short film in Europe is the fact that the war in Bosnia is a delicate matter. Sad.
perthserb (August 18, 2008 at 3:53 pm)
250 000? if you have a decent sized brain you would know that this is soooo enormously exaggerated. The total war casulties from 91-95 on the teritory of the former yug was around 140 000 from all three sides
perthserb (August 18, 2008 at 3:46 pm)
dont forget this short story is showing only one side of the story... and remember to start a war there has to be two sides involved
juliayllw (August 19, 2008 at 3:02 am)
agreed