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Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF; ) is an annual event founded in 2003 and held in New York. This Festival showcases the best of the Bosnian cinematography and also provides a platform for the international exposure for emerging Bosnian filmmakers. It showcases the best of the resurgent film production in Bosnia since the recent war, bringing the simplicity, soulfulness and the perennial dark humor of the Bosnian film to the American audiences. In addition to showcasing the Bosnian production films the festival also includes in their program films by other producers and directors that deal with historical, socio-political and cultural issues of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival is organized by not-for-profit organization the Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina Inc. History The idea for organizing the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival was first conceived in 2002 among film enthusiasts from the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora in San Francisco ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ...
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No Smoking In Sarajevo
''No Smoking in Sarajevo'' is a 2016 French documentary film by Gianluca Loffredo and Andrea Postiglione. The documentary explores the history of rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje () through stories of three founding members; Sejo Sexon, Nele Karajlić and Fudo. The film was released on October 26, 2016, in Paris, France. On December 21, 2016, the film had its Sarajevo premiere at the 2016 Sarajevo Film Festival. The film won the Jury Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2017 Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York City, NY. Synopsis The documentary tells the history of a Yugoslavian rock band through stories of its three first members, Sejo Sexon, Nele Karajlić and Fudo. Their story is emblematic of what happened in socialist Yugoslavia in the last 30 years. The film revisits the time of New Primitivism, famous TV show ''Top Lista Nadrealista'' and old concerts of Zabranjeno Pušenje. Cast * Davor Sučić, a.k.a. Sejo Sexon, guitarist and co-founder of Zabranjeno Pu ...
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Aleksandra Odic
Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protector of man". The name Alexandra was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek ( or //), written in the Linear B syllabic script.Tablet MY V 659 (61). Alexandra and its masculine equivalent, Alexander, are both common names in Greece as well as countries where Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are spoken. Variants * Alejandra, Alejandrina (diminutive) ( Spanish) * Aleksandra (Александра) (Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian) * Alessandra ( Italian) * Alessia (Italian) * Alex (various languages) * Alexa ( E ...
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Goran Kapetanović
Goran Kapetanović, born 12 December 1974 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a Bosnian-Swedish writer, director, and adjunct in film directing at Malmö Theater Academy. Kapetanović was trained at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and has directed short films such as '' Flykting 532'' (2015), '' Kiruna-Kigali'' (2012), '' En familj'' (2004), and ''Eko'' (2004), as well as features such as ''Min Faster in Sarajevo'' (2016) and ''Krig'' (2017). He directed all eight episodes of the TV series ''Caliphate'' (2020). Kapetanović has received more than 20 international prizes from a variety of cities and festivals. For ''Kiruna-Kigali,'' he won best short film at the Toronto Short Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards 2013. For ''Min Faster i Sarajevo'', Kapetanović received six nominations and won for best director at Guldbaggen The Guldbagge Awards ( sv, Guldbaggen, en, Gold scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring ach ...
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Refugee 532
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.FAQ: Who is a refugee?
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Nermin Hamzić
Nermin or Nermine (نرمين) is a Persian feminine given name (in French also transcribed as ''Nermine''). It means softness, delicate and it is used to describe kindness. The word ''Narm'' means soft in Persian, and “in” is a descriptive postfix. As ''Nermin'', it is also given as a male name in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The masculine Bosnian name is again feminized as ''Nermina''. Notable people with the name include: ;Nermin (feminine name) * Nermin Bezmen, Turkish novelist * Nermin Vlora Falaschi, Albanian intellectual * Nermin Farukî (1904-1991), Turkish sculptor * Nermin Al-Fiqy (b. 1972), Egyptian actress * Nermin Gözükırmızı, Turkish professor * Nermin Neftçi (1924-2003), Turkish lawyer, politician and former government minister * Nermine Hammam (b. 1967), Egyptian artist * Nermin Othman, Iraqi government minister * Nermin Abadan Unat, Turkish academic ;Nermin (masculine name) * Nermin Bašić, Bosnian football manager * Nermin Čeliković, Bosnian football ...
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Una Gunjak
Una and UNA may refer to: Places * 160 Una, the asteroid "Una", an asteroid named after the Faerie Queene character * Una River (other), numerous rivers * Una, Himachal Pradesh, a town in India ** Una, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency, the state assembly constituency centered around the town ** Una District ** Una Himachal railway station * Una, Gujarat, a town in India ** Una, Gujarat Assembly constituency * Una, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in the United States * Una, Bahia, a town in Brazil * Uña, a municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain * Una National Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Una (Sava), a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia People * Úna, an Irish given name ** Oona, an Irish given name (Anglicised spelling of ''Úna'') ** Oonagh, an Irish given name (Anglicised spelling of ''Úna'') * Ùna, a Scots-Gaelic given name * Saint Hunna (aka St. Una) (d. 679) a French saint Women with the given name * Una Abell-Brinker (1874– ...
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