Los Angeles, Aug 23 (IANS): Ines Tanovic’s “Our Everyday Life” has been selected to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina in the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards next year.
The decision was made by the Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, reports variety.com.
The film, which world premiered at Sarajevo Film Festival last week, took a lead from two other films - Nenad Duric’s “Thousand” and Cristobal Krusen’s “Sabina K”.
“Our Everyday Life” centers on a young war veteran struggling with economic hardships in post-war Bosnia while his father refuses to give up his social beliefs in an increasingly corrupt society. When problems start to build up, both realise that it is the family that matters most.
The film is produced by Bosnia’s Dokument Sarajevo and co-produced by Croatia’s Spiritus Movens and Slovenia’s Studio Maj.