LET THERE BE COLOUR (2020)
On September, 8 2019 Sarajevo hosts its first Pride March. Are people ready for this event?
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Ado HasanovicDirector
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Ado HasanovicWriter
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Chiara CruciattiWriter
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Prisca Van Der MullenWriter
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Ado HasanovicProducer
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Prisca Van Der MullenKey Cast
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Alem HatibovićKey Cast
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Ludovica FilomenoKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Short
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Runtime:15 minutes
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Completion Date:May 7, 2020
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Production Budget:30,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Country of Filming:Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy
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Language:Bosnian, English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Sarajevo Film FestivalSarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
August 16, 2020
WORLD PREMIRE
Official Selection - Competition Documentary Programe -
Shanghai Queer Film FestivalShanghai
China
September 19, 2020
Official Selection -
The Lift-Off SessionsIver
United Kingdom
September 20, 2020 -
First-Time Filmmaker SessionsIver
United Kingdom
September 27, 2020 -
Independent German Queer Film Festivals - Pride PicturesKarlsruhe
Germany
October 20, 2020
International Premiere
Official Selection -
Anarchy Film FestivalLisbon
Portugal
October 28, 2020
Official Selection -
Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film FestivalNew York Citry
October 30, 2020
American Premiere
Official Selection -
Balkan Beyond Film FestivalIzmir
Turkey
November 1, 2020
Turkish Premiere
Official Selection -
Human Rights Documentary Film DaysIzmir
Turkey
December 2, 2020
Official Selection -
Andromeda Film FestivalIstanbul
Turkey
January 5, 2021
Official Selection -
International queer film festival MerlinkaBelgrade
Serbia
December 3, 2020
Official Selection -
Queerz Get LoudLublinie
Poland
September 22, 2020
Official Selection -
Bosnia and Herzegovina Looks Around Film FestivalBottrop
Germany
November 13, 2020
Official Selection -
Prvi Kadar International Film FestivalSarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
November 13, 2020 -
Festival de Cinema de Alter do ChãoSantarém
Brazil
Official Selection -
Select Respect Film FestivalThessaloniki
Greece
November 29, 2020
Official Selection -
Face Film Festival ZannzibarZanzibar
Tanzania, United Republic of
October 25, 2020
Official Selection -
OMOVIES Film Festival 2020 - International LGBT Film FestivalNapoli
Italy
December 10, 2020
Official Selection -
MikroFAF - International festival of DIY and independent short filmBelgrade
Serbia
November 13, 2020
Serbian Premiere
Official Selection
ADO HASANOVIC (Srebrenica, 1986) is a film director based in Rome. In 2013 he graduated in Directing at the Sarajevo Film Academy with the short film MAMA, which enjoyed a positive festival distribution.
The same year he finished the Norwegian Nansen Academy, a course focused on inter-ethnic dialogue.
In 2014, after an internship at the Cinema for Peace Foundation and the participation in the Documentary Summer School organised by the US James Madison University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he received the award as Best Student, he enrolled in the prestigious National Film School Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he specialised as a film director. In 2017 he also finished a Master in Dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.
His short films THE ANGEL OF SREBRENICA, BLUE VIKING IN SARAJEVO, MAMA, BREATH OF LIFE SREBRENICA, PINK ELEPHANT and NOMOPHOBIA enjoyed world-wide selections and won many international awards. His first feature film JA SAM ANA is currently in development with the Italian production Il Gigante and 39Films, in co-production with the Serbian This and That Production and the Hungarian FocusFox. The project won the Focus-Fox Studio
Award at the 15th Sofia Meetings.
Since 2015 he has been the Art Director of the Mediterranean Short Film Festival The Author’s Passages in Sant’Antioco (Italy).
He is also the creator of CORTOVISIONI - HOW TO MAKE A SHORT FILM, a workshop format in which he teaches how to make a short film from the subject up to the post-production.
On August 20th 2019 he was awarded with the Sarajevan Golden Medallion by the Mayor of Sarajevo Abdulah Skaka as a special recognition for his cultural achievements.
How will people in Bosnia and Herzegovina react to the first Pride in Sarajevo? Will the city be ready to march asking for equal rights or not?
With these questions in mind, I decided to take part into this historical event and document the reactions of the people: the result is comments full of hate and fear on one side, tolerance and acceptance on the other.
With this film I want to bring the different voices of my country on the screen and foster a constructive dialogue between them, not condemning any of the parts involved. By showing the contrast between the ones ready for change and modernity and the ones who still are too frightened, the film aims to portray the diversity, richness and contrast of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of every place in which Pride marches take place for the first time.