Section: Youth Film U18 Competition

Ekskurzija

Excursion

Una Gunjak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar, 2023, 93 Min

A striking and sensitively directed coming-of-age debut film from Bosnia-Herzegovina with a rebellious young protagonist who invents her first time - and feels the harshness of a patriarchal society.

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Actually, everything could have been so nice. Iman is chilling with her friends on the school trip, but then she suddenly claims to have had sex with Damir during the truth-or-dare game, even though it's not true at all. Damir had claimed the same thing - to seem cool in front of his bros. While a boy is proudly patted on the back for such a claim, it has nasty consequences for the girl Iman. To make matters worse, in the confusion of emotions she invents a pregnancy and so not only does the class trip soon become a distant memory, but her life and above all her honour seem ruined. Director Una Gunjak delivers an original debut with EXCURSION that is at least as cheeky as its protagonist. In Locarno she won the Special Mention - Filmmakers of the Present for it and at home, in Sarajevo, the hearts of a whole generation of young people who question the old conventions.

Text: Stefanie Borowsky/ Joshua Jádi

 

The film will be shown in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.

Drehbuch
Una Gunjak
Kamera
Matthias Pilz
Ton
Igor Čamo
Schnitt
Clémence Diard
Musik
Draško Adžić
Darsteller
Asja Zara Lagumdžija
Nadja Spaho
Produzent
Amra Bakšić Ćamo, Adis Đapo
Produktion
SCCA/pro.ba
Una Gunjak

Una Gunjak - was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her first short film The Chicken premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week in 2014 and won the European Film Award for Best Short Film. Her other short film Salamat, made in Germany within the initiative Lebanon Factory, premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 2017.

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