BACK TO VISEGRAD
Original title in French : Retour à Visegrad
Directed by Julie Biro & Antoine Jaccoud
Documentary | 2020 | 95 min
In April 1992 a war broke out in Višegrad (Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina), separating Serbian and Bosnian pupils. Twenty-five years later, the former head teacher of the primary school and the widow of the class teacher take their old Zastava and set off on a long journey to reunite the pupils in a class reunion. Julie Biro and Antoine Jaccoud film this journey into the past of this sacrificed generation that brutally left its childhood behind in a world destroyed by adults.
Produced by: Elisa Garbar, Louise Productions Lausanne
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 95 min.
Year: 2020
Original language: Bosnian
Shooting format: 2K
Nationality: swiss
Directors: Julie Biro & Antoine Jaccoud
Scenario: Julie Biro & Antoine Jaccoud
Director of Photography: Amel Djikoli
Sound: Igor Iskra
Image Editor: Dejan Savic
Music: Mario Batkovic
Sound engineer: Denis Séchaud
A coproduction: Swiss Radio-Television (RTS) & SRG-SSR
With the support of: Office fédéral de la culture /Cinéforom /Loterie Romande /Suissimage / Pourcent-culturel Migros / Fondation Casino Barrière Montreux /Media Desk Suisse /Stiftung Corymbo
Swiss Distributor: Outside The Box
International sales: Louise Productions Lausanne
In national competition: Vision du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon (Switzerland), 17.4-2.5 | 2020.
Selection BH Films: Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia), 14-21.08 | 2020
New Filmmakers Competition: 44a. Mostra internacional de cinema Sao Paolo International Film Festival (Brazil), 22.10-4.11 | 2020
International Selection : Fünf Seen Film Festival, München (Germany), 20-21.08 | 2021
Coming soon :
Presentation : Les Rendez-vous de l’histoire, Blois (France), 10.10 | 2021
Presentation : Festival Haizebegi, Bayonne (France), 8-18.09 | 2021
Print media & Web
Variety, “Back to Visegrad’s Julie Biro, Antoine Jaccoud on Repairing the Past, Bosnian War Legacy”, John Hopewell, 27 avril 2020.
Mulher no cinema, “Todos os filmes dirigidos per mulheres na programação da Mostra SP”, [s.a.], 21 oct. 2020.
Cineweb, “De Volta a Visegrad” in “17 Quadras e Eyimofe vencem a Mostra SP”, Neusa Barbosa, 3 nov. 2020.
Grenzer Tagblatt, “Vom Bosnien Krieg auseinandergerissen: Was passiert, wenn sich eine Klasse Jahre später wieder trifft?”, Irene Genhart, 2 déc. 20.
SRF.ch / Kultur, “Rückkehr nach Visegrad: Ein Klassentreffen mit ungewissen Ende”, Georges Wirsch, 7 déc. 2020.
der-andere-film.ch, “Rückkehr nach Visegrad”, [s.a.], 9 déc. 2020.
MLR, “Réunion dans les Balkans”, Le Courrier, 21 mai 2021.
Radio
SRF 2 Kultur, “Yalda, The Midnight Sky, Rückkehr nach Višegrad”, Filmpodcast 679 “Kino im Koft”, Woche 50, 11 déc. 2020
Interview
Interview by Skype of Julie Biro & Antoine Jaccoud on the occasion of the online edition Vision du Réel 2020, broadcasted online on NRTV and YouTube on Friday April 17, 2020. Conducted by Andrea Bras Lopo for NRTV.
Interview of Antoine Jaccoud on the occasion of the online edition Vision du Réel 2020, broadcasted on Friday April 17, 2020 on Darius Rochebin's "19h30" TV news. Directed by Mathieu Lombard for RTS (Swiss Radio-Television).
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