Independent Short Film: 10 minutes by Ahmed Imamovic

October 16th, 2008

Download the film in high quality here (xvid, avi, 100 MB): http://lix.in/e5f9a9 10 minutes by Ahmed Imamovic. 1994. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Rome, Italy. How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002. This Independent Short Film, as its title indicates lasts only 10 minutes, but it tells a much longer story which unravels only in our imagination upon seeing the end of the film. While 10 minutes in someone’s life mean nothing, they can be fatal in another: a boy and his loving family, tragedy in a war-torn city, death and destruction. All in just ten minutes. The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia. Although the Rome part was not filmed on the original location, that does not take away anything from the quality of the film, it was just a symbolic element anyway. Cast is great, story is very compact and well written, direction dynamic and precise. There is nothing out of place in the film: well structured, stripped of false pathos, realistic, it is very straight forward. In other words, this is a jewel of a film, and it was not by chance that it won the award for the best European short film in 2002. 10 minutes for me is definitely one of the most moving and powerful films about wartime Sarajevo. Behind the scene: I read that the director Ahmed Imamovic, in search of Japanese for the role of the tourist, had to go to the Japanese Embassy in Sarajevo and ask one of the staff to perform in the film. Luckily for the director, the Embassy allowed one of their employees to star in the film. The story tells how SERBS have killed civils, old people and children! 10 MINUTA film Ahmeda Imamovica Godina 1994. Rim i Sarajevo. Koliko razlicitih stvari moze da se desi za 10 minuta! Film dobitnik nagrade za najbolji kratki film 2002. god. u evropi! Language/Jezik: Bosnian/Bosanski with english subtitle

Duration : 0:9:15


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Posted by Independent Short Films on October 16th, 2008 | Filed in Independent Short Films, International Short Films | View Comments

  • JCW58

    Imas nesto protiv …
    Imas nesto protiv Srba,hanuma,majke ti tvoje?

  • gatoboindenay

    Perfect
    Perfect

  • md0m

    I think you missed …
    I think you missed the whole point of the 10 mins.

  • TetovaLli

    nje film veretet …
    nje film veretet shum i mrekullueshem vlen ndoshta edhe per oskar astriti

  • lacycek

    great..
    great..

  • kosarasaramitik

    BRAVO!!!
    BRAVO!!!

  • 5uper5tring

    wow
    wow

  • 999lier666

    in the end i think …
    in the end i think it wanted to show how the 10min. picture is fake

    what actually happened is the salesman had pre-printed backgrounds already, and that he simply pasted the japanese dude’s picture on it. well i dont even think it was the japanese dude’s picture cause it showed many people on the picture. well, i didnt really see the japanese guy along with other people so that pic is not his

    or something
    idk lol idk if im even right lol

  • celicNY93

    im yugo, i …
    im yugo, i understood wat they said.
    i know some ppl that died in this war

  • hiroshitakad

    i love it!
    i love it!

  • Subscriber16698

    Loved it!
    Loved it!

  • MurasakiYugata

    Wow…that was …
    Wow…that was amazing. And one of the longest shots I’ve probably ever seen.

  • ohmyygoshh

    I’m speechless, …
    I’m speechless, saddened…a great film!!!!

  • gojal

    only one shot? i …
    only one shot? i cant imagine how many takes to made it. Its a great film, in technique and content, it reminds about bosnian war.

  • movieposterboy

    Amazing long take …
    Amazing long take of the bosnia bit. Brilliant.

  • Komarow

    Its… I don’t know …
    Its… I don’t know what to say. I’m crying… Such terrible, such beautiful is the world. In the same time…

  • tllnbks

    As it says in the …
    As it says in the title…the reasons of the war are not what are important in this film. The film just shows that 10 minutes in one person life may mean nothing, yet 10 minutes in anothers life means everything.

  • Betoguerralvarez

    yeah very tragic.

    yeah very tragic.
    I am latinamerican and I so this comparison a little naive, but indeed, western europe lives in that dreamy and naive world. So sad for those inocent bosniac people.
    Here, we know some other external powers were involved in that horrible war, and I’m not talking only about the US…

  • SerbiaWithLove

    sva sam se najezila …
    sva sam se najezila! Strasno

  • Losuol

    hehe Im Russian so …
    hehe Im Russian so I understood some of the stuff they were saying. This was quiet tragic really, I kinda see a parallel between this and what we’re doing in Iraq / Afganistan ..

  • MirzaLalic

    Wrong.
    While the …

    Wrong.
    While the asian tourist was developing photos for ten minutes in italy, ppl were massacrated in Bosnia because of their ethnicity/religion by serbs.

  • elninodeoro88

    it means that while …
    it means that while some were developing photos for ten minutes, others were dying

  • simplysid

    the bosnia sequence …
    the bosnia sequence is very well shot… beautiful and tragic… bravo!

  • simplysid

    the bosnia sequence …
    the bosnia sequence is very well shot… beautiful and tragic… bravo!

  • HerojPG

    izuzetan film..
    izuzetan film..

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