Ticket sales for the 11th annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York City will be available through the festival’s website program page starting on Monday, April 21st, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. ET.
A total of 16 films will screen May 1-3 at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. They include four feature films, five short films, and seven documentaries – all with English subtitles. Please visit the program page of the festival’s website for more information.
Tickets for each film block are $15, and can be purchased online until May 1st, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Tickets will also be available at the box office at Tribeca Cinemas immediately before each screening on a first-come, first-served basis.
The festival is also announcing an expert panel discussion, Q&A session with a film director, and special guests at this year’s festival.
There will be an expert panel discussion after the screening of documentary “May 31st” on the first day of the festival, Thursday, May 1st. The panel will include Refik Hodžić and Eldar Sarajlić, and will focus on the White Armband Initiative, the state of social activism in Prijedor and the current sociopolitical turmoil in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Refik Hodžić is director of communications at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York City. For almost two decades, Hodžić has worked in transitional justice as a journalist and filmmaker, as well as an expert in public information and outreach campaigns for international and national courts seeking justice for war crimes. He has focused on post-war justice and media primarily in the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, and Timor-Leste. While working with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, he served as the tribunal’s spokesman and outreach coordinator for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also headed the public information and outreach section of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2004, Hodžić co-founded XY Films, an independent film and television production company producing documentary films dealing with the legacy of war crimes committed during the 1990s.
Eldar Sarajlić is a researcher and a lecturer in political theory and philosophy. He teaches contemporary political theory at CUNY’s Brooklyn College. He was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in 2012/2013 and he is currently finishing his PhD at the Central European University in Budapest. Before coming to New York, he worked as a journalist, communicator and lecturer in Sarajevo. He was born in Doboj.
The BHFF 2014 is also proud to present a Q&A session with Chris Leslie, one of the directors of “Finding Family.” The session will take place following the screening of the film on the last day of the festival, Saturday, May 3rd.
A number of other special guests will be joining us this year:
• Ambassador H.E. Jadranka Negodić, the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Washington D.C.
• Adnan Hadrović, Minister Counselor (DCM), the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Washington, D.C.
• Sixten Björkstrand, director of “Bosnia in Our Hearts” • Nebojša Šerić-Shoba (Jury)
• Amir Husak (Jury)
