PINK ELEPHANT a short film by Ado Hasanovic has been selected in the official selection of the 7th Tuzla Film Festival (BiH)
SCREENING: 14. October 2018 / National Theater - 13h
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
The film is about a Bosnian bourgeois family welcoming back the studying-abroad daughter and his new Italian boyfriend. After the initial enthusiasm, things start to change when the father notice a tattoo on her daughter's back. He abruptly changes his behaviour towards the girl, seeming not able to look at her in the same way as before. We soon find out that the father is a porn addict, and he is convinced that tattoo is the same shown in a porn video he recently had seen.
The film is about a Bosnian bourgeois family welcoming back the studying-abroad daughter and his new Italian boyfriend. After the initial enthusiasm, things start to change when the father notice a tattoo on her daughter's back. He abruptly changes his behaviour towards the girl, seeming not able to look at her in the same way as before. We soon find out that the father is a porn addict, and he is convinced that tattoo is the same shown in a porn video he recently had seen.
CAST
Izudin Bajrović
father Sead
Izudin Bajrović (born 9 February 1963) is a Bosnian actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1986.
Jasna Žalica
mother Zlata
Jasna Zalica was born in 1968 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. She is known for her work on Takva su pravila (2014), Grbavica (2006) and Gori vatra (2003).
Amila Terzimehić
daughter Sanja
Amila Terzimehic was born on April 18, 1988 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an actress, known for The November Man (2014), Vivegam (2017) and Legacy of a Spy.
Fabrizio Colica
boyfriend Giovanni
Fabrizio Colica is an Italian actor, known for Il Nostro Ultimo (2015), Invisibile (2014) and Roles (2013).
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
This film speaks about nowadays Bosnia and the problems of a wealthy family. Being a Bosnian film director, I wanted to make a different type of film, that had nothing to do neither with war nor with all the other hot issues of my country. Even though coming from different backgrounds, family affairs affect all of us in the same way.
The film was entirely shot in Rome although the story takes place in Sarajevo; crew and actors were all professionial figures coming from Bosnia except for one Italian actor. It is my intention to speak about morality, relationships and taboos that live inside a family.
Ado Hasanovic
The film was entirely shot in Rome although the story takes place in Sarajevo; crew and actors were all professionial figures coming from Bosnia except for one Italian actor. It is my intention to speak about morality, relationships and taboos that live inside a family.
Ado Hasanovic
Screenings/Awards
AWARDS
1. 8th Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival; Brussels, Belgium - AUDIENCE AWARD
2. 14th Corto Dorico Film Festival, Ancona, Italy – AWARD SENTIERI DI CINEMA / CINEMA PATHS
3. 3th My Love Michelle Short Film Festival Texas, USA – BEST COMEDY
4. 15th Bosnian-Herzegovinan Film Festival (BHFF), New York City, USA
NOMINATIONS:
- Best Short for the BHFF
- Jury Award
- Best Picture for the BHFF
- Audience Award
- Best Acting Performance to Izudin Bajrovic and Jasna Zalica
5. 10th Omladinski Film Festival Sarajevo - "BEST MOVIE OFF GENERATION 2018"
6. 26thSHORT OF THE YEAR - Summer (Madrid, Spain) - SPECIAL JURY MENTION
7. 49th KRAF Film Festival (Rijeka, Croatia) – GRAND PRIX
8. Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival(Greece) - BEST OF Selection
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
OUT OF COMPETITION
1. 8th Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival; Brussels, Belgium - AUDIENCE AWARD
2. 14th Corto Dorico Film Festival, Ancona, Italy – AWARD SENTIERI DI CINEMA / CINEMA PATHS
3. 3th My Love Michelle Short Film Festival Texas, USA – BEST COMEDY
4. 15th Bosnian-Herzegovinan Film Festival (BHFF), New York City, USA
NOMINATIONS:
- Best Short for the BHFF
- Jury Award
- Best Picture for the BHFF
- Audience Award
- Best Acting Performance to Izudin Bajrovic and Jasna Zalica
5. 10th Omladinski Film Festival Sarajevo - "BEST MOVIE OFF GENERATION 2018"
6. 26thSHORT OF THE YEAR - Summer (Madrid, Spain) - SPECIAL JURY MENTION
7. 49th KRAF Film Festival (Rijeka, Croatia) – GRAND PRIX
8. Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival(Greece) - BEST OF Selection
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
- 8th Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival; Brussels, Belgium - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 16th Reggio Film Festival ; Reggio Emilia, Italy - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 14th Corto Dorico Film Festival, Ancona, Italy - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 24th International Festival of Short Films and New Images - Arcipelago, Roma, Italy - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 3th My Love Michelle Short Film Festival Texas, USA - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 6th Balkan Florence Express Film Festival, Florence, Italy - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 10th Fastnet Film Festival, Main Street, Schull, West Cork, Ireland - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 15th Bosnian-Herzegovinan Film Festival (BHFF), New York City, USA - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 10th Omladinski Film Festival Sarajevo - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 7th Tuzla Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 26th SHORT OF THE YEAR - Summer (Madrid, Spain) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Inferenze Film Festival (Napoli, Italy) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Ankara Film Festival (Ankara, Turkey) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 11th Film Fest Petaluma (California, USA) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 19th deadCenter Film Festival (Oklahoma, USA) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 43nd Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt (Germany) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
- 5th Marmaris International Short Film Festival (Turkey) - OFFICIAL SELECTION
OUT OF COMPETITION
- 3th Week of Italian Language and Film, Sarajevo, BiH (out of competition)
- Torino Short Film Market, Torino Film Festival, Torino Italy (out of competition)
- 19th Festival del Cinema Europeo (Lecce, Italy) (out of competition)
- 13th Mediterranean Short Film Festival Sant'Antioco / Passaggi d’Autore Intrecci Mediterranei (out of competition)
- 3th International Short Film Day in Sarajevo (out of competition)
- 11th edition Dolce Cinema - Future of Italian and French Cinema - short film contest in Grenoble, France (out of competition)
- 6th LET’S CEE Film Festival, Vienna, Austria - (out of competition)
- 65th Pula Film Festival (Pula, Croatia) - (out of competition)
- 7th Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia: Per il cinema Italiano (Roma, Italy) - (out of competition)
- 24th Sarajevo Film Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) - (out of competition)
- 5th Ad Arte Calcata Teatro Cine Festival (Viterbo/Roma, Italy) - (out of competition)
- 1th A.R.E – Artist in Rome Experience festival (Rome, Italy) - (out of competition)
- 16th Zagreb Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia) - (out of competition)
Film Director
Ado Hasanović (born in Srebrenica 1986) is a Bosnian film director based in Rome. From 2008-2011, Ado has been the Creative Director of the Srebrenica Short Film Festival. He graduated from the Sarajevo Film Academy as a film director in 2013. He later attended the National Film School 'Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia' in Rome, where he specialized as a film director. In 2015, he started working as Art Director for the Mediterranean Short Film Festival in Sant'Antioco, Italy. As a guest student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, he finished a Master in Dramaturgy. He won several international awards for his short films “The Angel of Srebrenica”, “Blue Viking in Sarajevo”, “Mum” “Breath of life Srebrenica” and “Pink Elephant”. His first feature film “ Ja Sam Ana” is in development with the italian production Il Gigante. The film won the Focus Fox Sudio Award at 15 th Sofia Meetings.
