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Aida Begic Preps a Moving “A Ballad” for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published on March 11, 2015

Certainly a project that will be pitched for pre-sales on the Croisette in a couple of months from now, Cineuropa reports that Aida Begic, who is technically far 3 for 4 at the Cannes film festival with 2008’s Snow being followed by Children of Sarajevo (12) and her contribution to omnibus Bridges of Sarajevo (2014), will display Bosnia and Herzegovina with the post-apocalyptic romance genre. A Ballad will be co-produced by the Begic, Film House Sarajevo and Les Films de l’Après-midi (The Strange Case of Angelica prod co. produced most of her films).

Gist: Written by Begic, this is being described as a post-apocalyptic Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Worth Noting: The filmmaker won the Special Jury Prize in the UCR section in 2012.

Do We Care?: Potentially retuning back to the poeticism found in her well-travelled film festival gem Snow, we can tag this romance at the breaking point of humanity as an early Cannes 2016 possibility.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).