13 Europeans directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. The Bridges of Sarajevo is a cinematic contribution to the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI. The film is a ollaboration of 13 European directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Loznitsa, Leonardo Di Costanza, Isild Le Besco, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec and Teresa Villaverde who all contribute one short film. François Schuiten, famous Belgian comic book artist (Cities of the Fantastic) imagined animated cartoon links in between these films, a metaphoric transposition in his graphically luxuriant world of the emblematic bridges of the city of Sarajevo. The Balkan filmmakers are four. |