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‘Grbavica’ is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.
I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
I want to show that drama doesn’t lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
When I go to a cinema, I don’t care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.
If you love your film, you have to fight for it.
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.
In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.
I have always written – since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I ‘write’ with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around.
My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.
As a child, I used to ‘torture’ other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.
Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.
‘For Those Who Can Tell No Tales’ is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.
In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.
Music, for me, in a film is never… I don’t want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.
