2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Aida Begic’s Mamac

Gist: This is a collaboration between Begic and Turkish filmmaker Semih Kaplanoğlu, whose film Bal (Honey) won the Golden Bear in 2010. Mamac will recount the stories of people who were born during the 1990s siege of Sarajevo and are now in their early 20s. The film will study the effects on a generation whose first experiences and knowledge in life were centered around war.

Prediction: Kaplanoğlu and Begic announced this film last July at the Sarajevo Film Festival, planned for filming in November, and promised a finished product in time for the next Sarajevo festival this coming summer. Should they finish early, there is a pretty could chance Mamac will premiere in the Directors Fortnight. Begic’s first feature played in the Critic’s Week in 2008, while the first film in Kaplanoğlu’s Egg, Milk, and Honey trilogy dropped in the 2007 Fortnight, so neither filmmaker is a stranger to Cannes sidebars.