directed by Jasmila Žbaniæ, drama, 75 min, eng subtitles
written by Zoran Solomun, Kym Vercoe, Jasmila Žbaniæ
with Kym Vercoe, Jasna Djurièiæ, Simon McBurney, Leon Luèev
The film is based on the true story of Kym Vercoe who plays herself in the film. At her friend’s suggestion, she decided to visit Bosnia as a tourist. She was going to a country which had emerged from a war fifteen years earlier, and she did her best to find out as much as she could before going there. Her journey took her to Višegrad, a seemingly idyllic town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. She saw no traces of demolition and no memorials and she thought to herself: here’s a town which luckily escaped the destruction. After a sleepless night in a hotel recommended by her guidebook, she slowly begins to unravel the real history of the place... Kym turned her experience into a theatre play called Seven Kilometres North-East. When the Bosnian film-maker Jasmila Žbaniæ saw Kym’s play on DVD, she immediately contacted Kym with a proposal to make a film about it. This film is the result.
Awards
Karlovy Vary IFF 2013 (Audience Award)
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