Zbanic’s ‘Grbavica’ tops AFI fest Taking home the international feature competition's narrative grand jury prize at AFI Fest 2006 was rookie filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams ...

Jasmila Zbanic‘s “Grbavica won the top prize, the Golden Bear, at the 2006 Berlinale, awarded tonight at the festival’s closing ceremony in Germany’s capital city. The film, from Austria and Bosnia & ...

20/02/2009 - This case study offers an insight into the process that brought this project onto the big screen. The Golden Bear winner of the Berlinale 2006 is a co-production between Austria, ...

I am a full-time filmmaker. I don’t shoot films every day but I write screenplays, run my production company DEBLOKADA (in translation “breaking the siege”), [and] I organize workshops and produce ...

“Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” is a film that’s both sensitive and a shocker, an unvarnished portrait of a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her daughter in postwar Sarajevo. It’s ...

Jasmila Zbanic’s “Grbavica” received the grand jury prize for international feature Sunday at the AFI Fest. “Buddha’s Lost Children” and director Mark Verkerk received the international docu grand ...

The low-budget Grbavica, by Sarajevo director Jasmila Zbanic, took the Golden Bear for best film at the conclusion of the 56th Berlin festival on Saturday, in keeping with the annual event’s ...

Wars seldom end when a peace accord is signed, and that is especially true of the conflict in what survivors still call “ex-Yugoslavia.” Because what combatants did was so savage, and because enemies, ...

'Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams' Drama. Written and directed by Jasmila Zbanic. With Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic. In Bosnian with English subtitles. (Not rated. 90 mins. At the Lumiere in San ...