Videoteca

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So Much Tenderness 2022
Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, an environmental lawyer rebuilds her life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter, only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.

The White Fortress 2022 star_border 5.8
What could be a beautiful fairy tale for some - boy meets girl - could also be the beginning of a horror film for Faruk. The young man is crushed between the dark world of his criminal cousins in Sarajevo and the discovery of love. The film powerfully visualises and contrasts a harshness and tenderness experienced and dreamed.

The Archivists 2020
After uncovering a degraded vinyl album in an abandoned home, three musicians attempt to reimagine one of its songs.

The Stone Speakers 2018 star_border 5.5
In present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, economically depressed towns turn themselves into tourist destinations in order to survive—deliberately forming their own cultural narratives. Centering on four different locations, The Stone Speakers interrogates a nation’s contradictory memories. Made with subtlety and tactful distance, director Igor Drljaca’s film reveals the traumatic consequences of being a country that is stuck in a postwar identity crisis.

The Waiting Room 2015 star_border 4.6
Jasmin, once a successful actor in former Yugoslavia, dreams of returning to Sarajevo to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.

The Curve 2012 star_border 5.7
A Bosnian immigrant who fled to Toronto after the civil war returns to his homeland in search of a missing friend who has been implicated in war crimes, in this quietly chilling and finely surreal meditation on confronting traumas of the past. (TIFF)

The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar 2011
Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.

Point Traverse 2009
Two twenty-something friends from a small town go to different lengths to discover their true nature after witnessing a murder.

The Embers and the Stars Release date not available
An astrophysicist, after making an extraterrestrial discovery, is forced to flee with his family from their home and is chased through the countryside by an anonymous pursuer.

Violence Release date not available
Set in an alternate 1980s, where our anti-hero Henry Violence becomes entangled in a brutal drug war as rival cartels battle for supremacy, forcing him to make difficult choices to navigate the treacherous landscape.