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Ekskurzija

Original name: Ekskurzija
English name: Excursion
Year: 2023
Run time: 93 mins
Language: Bosnian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar
Director: Una Gunjak
Producers: Amra Baksic Camo, Adis Djapo
Cast: Asja Zara Lagumdžija, Nađa Spaho, Maja Izetbegović, Mediha Musliović, Izudin Bajrović, Muhamed Hadžović
Screenplay: Una Gunjak
Cinematographer: Matthias Pilz
Editor: Clemence Diard
Music Composer: Drasko Arzic
Sound Designer: Igor Camo
Production Company:Film House Bas Celik, Mer Film, Nukleus film, SCCA / pro.ba, Salaud Morisset
World Sales: Scca

Festivals:

• Locarno IFF 2023
• Sao Paulo IFF 2023
• Tallinn Black Nights FF 2023
• Thessaloniki IFF 2023
• Sarajevo IFF 2023

Director’s Selected Filmography:

• 2017 Salamat from Germany (Short)
• 2016 On (Dis)covering (Short)
• 2014 The Chicken (Short)

Director's Biography:

Una Gunjak was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her first short film, The Chicken, premiered at the Cannes FF 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 2017. Excursion (2023) is her first feature film and gained the support of Eurimages, Aide au Développement at Cinemed 2019, Hubert Bals Script and Project Development Fund, and Sørfond - Norwegian South Film Fund in 2021.

Synopsis:

In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking validation reveals that she had sex for the first time during a game of 'truth or dare' among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she invents a pregnancy and becomes the center of a controversy that spirals out of control.