Films
The Perfect Circle
Author and director: Claudia Tosi
Produced by: Movimenta
Producer: Claudia Tosi
Co produced by: Petra Pan Film Production, Miafilm, Cobos Films
Ita-Slo-UK-NL
Dur: 76' and 52'
Date of release: May 2015
Ivano and Meris don’t know each other. They are guests in a hospice for terminally ill persons, struggling to catch the last flashes of life. Meris runs in with her lovely husband, Mario, and dreams to go back home, even only for one day, to sit in the garden with him and talk about silly things. Ivano, enraged with the world, kicks everyone out from his room under the patient look of his wife Carla, a tough woman with eyes full with tears that she never cries. Meris and Ivano are not going gently “into that good night”. “The Perfect Circle” intertwines two love stories and the urge to find a meaning to life when death is around the corner. But maybe no one ever goes away for good, as the never-ending cycle of water teaches us.
Distrubution
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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Mostar United
Author and director: Claudia Tosi
Produced by: Stefilm
Producer: Edoardo Fracchia
Co-Producer: Petra Pan Film Production, Movimenta, Chello Multicanal
Ita-Slo
Dur: 75' and 52'
Date of release: January 2009
Distribution: Stefilm
Mensud fought in the Bosnian war, defending his hometown Mostar and the Old Bridge. Now that peace has returned and the Old Bridge has been rebuilt, Mensud is fighting once again, this time against the new
nationalist mentality.
Torn apart and enraged by ethnical conflict, Mostar is more like two “ghettos” divided by a big boulevard, than the joyful Montmartre of the Balkans that it was before the war. From the pitch of the Velez
football school, the legendary team of Mostar, Mensud teaches an army of kids the value of friendship and unity. His son, Dzenan, one of his players, cannot stand this struggle any longer. He dreams of playing for a major European team and living in a safe environment.
Private Fragments of Bosnia
Author and director: Claudia Tosi
Produced by: Movimenta
Italy
Dur: 54'
Date of release: November 2004
Distribution: Stefilm
Svjetlana’s best friend, Claudia, travels to Mostar and Sarajevo filming what she finds on her way. The words of her friend’s night-long phone calls from the States are loud in her mind, while she searches for the elements that can make Svjetlana want to return home.
Svjetlana left Bosnia in 1992 just after the start of the war. She lost her roots, effects and dreams and is afraid of returning. Claudia’s desire is to have her friend close to her once more and to free her from the obsession of the tragic events that obliged her to leave. She thinks this journey will help her convince Svjetlana to return. The narration develops through the telephone conversations, family archives and the material shot by Claudia in the troubled Bosnia of today. Mostar, the battered town where the ethnical divide is still intense, the graves and landmines in the region and the once multi-cultured and joyfull town of Sarajevo.