UBC instructor Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress is going to the Oscars
VIFF film will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2022 Academy Awards in foreign-language film category
UBC FILM ASSISTANT professor Igor Igor Drljača’s third feature film The White Fortress has been selected to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 94th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020).
The film, which tells an aching story of the after effects of war on Sarajevo’s youth, recently screened at VIFF, with its world premiere earlier at the 2021 Berlinale. The film is a Canadian-Bosnian coproduction.
In the film, orphaned teenager Faruk (Pavle Cemerikic) is drawn toward the fast money of a life of crime with his cousins in a Soviet-era housing project, while falling in love with rich girl named Mona.
Drljača is also the producer with Albert Shin through Canada's TimeLapse Pictures.
You can read Stir's review of The White Fortress here.
Related Articles
Subtitled Beauty Between the Lines, the film by Danny Berish and Ryan Mah digs deeper than the architect’s portfolio
White rabbits and Magritte clouds, as Visions Ouest presents film of Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s epic and affecting multimedia performance
Featuring film offerings from all 27 European Union members, festival opens with Hungary’s Some Birds and closes with Ukraine’s The Hardest Hour
They’ll be competing in juried Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at event December 4 to 8
Boldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder
Canada-wide opportunity connects aspiring filmmakers with established industry professionals
In this classic of German expressionism screening at the Shadbolt, “Every frame is like an album cover,” says the postrock band’s Simon Dobbs
The Cinematheque curator Sonja Baksa delivers a week of programming centred on celluloid witches, just in time for Halloween
Photographer Kiliii Yuyan will be live on stage for the film’s visually stunning exploration of the Arctic
Inay (Mama) wins the Arbutus Award for best B.C. film; Summit award for best Canadian film goes to Universal Language