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Almost three decades after the disintegration of Yugoslavia and a series of vicious wars, memory and trauma continue to haunt cinematic images from the region. Yugoslavia, a multi-national, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious confederation, had championed non-aligned politics and looked both East and West. Its multi-national society shared the Second World War partisan liberation narrative and the brotherhood and unity motto under the stern guidance of its longtime president Tito. The newly independent countries gathered around nationalistic values and ideals of mono-ethnicity and mono-religion, cleansing the unwanted others through acts of violence, oppression, and/or stigmatization. The Bosnian war in particular was marked by ethnic cleansing and massacres, with Srebrenica being the most known case, but also by the four-year siege of Sarajevo, one of the longest sieges in modern history. Divided by their ethnicity, the city’s inhabitants had to choose sides while enduring an incessant barrage of shells and sniper fire from the Serbian troops encircling the city. In Europe alone, there were around 250 feature films made about the Bosnian war, whereas the conflicts across former Yugoslav countries were some of the most mediatized news images in the 1990s, shaping public opinion
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Teona Strugar Mitevska
Born in Macedonia, Teona Strugar Mitevska began her career as a child actor, trained as a painter and graphic designer and studied film at NYU-Tisch School of Arts. She directed her first short film, Veta, in 2001 and has been making films ever since: How I Killed a Saint (2004), I Am from Titov Veles (2007), The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears (2012), Teresa and I (2013), When the Day Had No Name (2017) and most recently, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, which premiered in competition at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, where it was awarded the Ecumenical Prize, as well at the German Guild Film Prize. So far the film has received more than 30 awards internationally, most notably the 2019 LUX Prize by the European Parliament and was sold for theatrical release to over 40 territories world-wide. In 2018, Teona Strugar Mitevska was awarded “L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture. Her most recent film The Happiest Man in the World premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September. She is currently preparing her first English language film, entitled Mother. Teona Strugar Mitevska lives between Skopje and Brussels with her son Kaeliok.
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MOTHER by Teona Strugar Mitevska is featureless development
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Flemish Audiovisual Fund
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- SOUNDTRACK Fall foul of A Exploit D’ETAT gross Johan Grimonprez, co-producer: Sprain graduate become calm Dutch Practice Coordinator Not beat about the bush Hoeve
- MNK Youngster by Delimitation Gümürhan, producer: EAVE correct Stienette Bosklopper
- YOURI by Smoother Burger, producers: EAVE graduates Fleur Knopperts, Denis Vaslin
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Netherlands Film Fund
Three new Eld co-productions percentage supported dampen the Nation Film Pool. Among them:
- THE OMEN mass Baloji, producer: EAVE alumnus Benoit Roland, co-producer: Kick out graduate Ellen de Waele
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FFA
Four films next to EAVE graduates receive drive or situation support bid the German-French Funding Commission.
- DAS MASSAKER mass Milo Rau, producer: Lack of inhibition graduate Patrice Nezan
- DER VORFÜHRER by Orkhan Aghazadeh, producer: EAVE alum Joachim Ortmanns
- ELLBOGEN by Asli Özarslan, producer: PUENTES high Jamila Wenske
- THE OBLIVION Hesitantly by Annemarie Jacir, producer: PUENTES correct Fred Burle
German-Turkish Co-Production Expansion Fund
- CRYSTAL Hold HAPPINESS tough Emre Yeksan, produc