Igor Drljaca

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Igor Drljaca

Noah Reid, Bahia Watson

After uncovering a degraded vinyl album in an abandoned home, three musicians attempt to reimagine one of its songs.

The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar

Igor Drljaca

Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.

Scaffold

Kazik Radwanski

Jasmin Geljo, Igor Drljaca

Recent immigrants to Canada, working on scaffolding break the routine of their job by observing the people in the the neighbourhood from a unique, precarious and ephemeral vantage point.

The Stone Speakers

Igor Drljaca

In present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, economically depressed towns turn themselves into tourist destinations in order to survive—deliberately forming their own cultural narratives. Centering on four different locations, The Stone Speakers interrogates a nation’s contradictory memories. Made with subtlety and tactful distance, director Igor Drljaca’s film reveals the traumatic consequences of being a country that is stuck in a postwar identity crisis.

The Waiting Room

Igor Drljaca

Cynthia Ashperger, Jordan Barker

Jasmin, once a successful actor in former Yugoslavia, dreams of returning to Sarajevo to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.

Spice It Up

Lev Lewis, Yonah Lewis

Jennifer Hardy CK, Shivali Barot

A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project.

Tabija

Igor Drljaca

Pavle Čemerikić, Jasmin Geljo

What could be a beautiful fairy tale for some - boy meets girl - could also be the beginning of a horror film for Faruk. The young man is crushed between the dark world of his criminal cousins in Sarajevo and the discovery of love. The film powerfully visualises and contrasts a harshness and tenderness experienced and dreamed.

Krivina

Igor Drljaca

Jasmin Geljo, Goran Slavković

A Bosnian immigrant who fled to Toronto after the civil war returns to his homeland in search of a missing friend who has been implicated in war crimes, in this quietly chilling and finely surreal meditation on confronting traumas of the past. (TIFF)