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LET THERE BE COLOUR (2020)

On September, 8 2019 Sarajevo hosts its first Pride March. Are people ready for this event?

  • Ado Hasanovic
    Director
  • Ado Hasanovic
    Writer
  • Chiara Cruciatti
    Writer
  • Prisca Van Der Mullen
    Writer
  • Ado Hasanovic
    Producer
  • Prisca Van Der Mullen
    Key Cast
  • Alem Hatibović
    Key Cast
  • Ludovica Filomeno
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 7, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Country of Filming:
    Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy
  • Language:
    Bosnian, English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Sarajevo Film Festival
    Sarajevo
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    August 16, 2020
    WORLD PREMIRE
    Official Selection - Competition Documentary Programe
  • Shanghai Queer Film Festival
    Shanghai
    China
    September 19, 2020
    Official Selection
  • The Lift-Off Sessions
    Iver
    United Kingdom
    September 20, 2020
  • First-Time Filmmaker Sessions
    Iver
    United Kingdom
    September 27, 2020
  • Independent German Queer Film Festivals - Pride Pictures
    Karlsruhe
    Germany
    October 20, 2020
    International Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Anarchy Film Festival
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    October 28, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival
    New York Citry
    October 30, 2020
    American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Balkan Beyond Film Festival
    Izmir
    Turkey
    November 1, 2020
    Turkish Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Human Rights Documentary Film Days
    Izmir
    Turkey
    December 2, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Andromeda Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    January 5, 2021
    Official Selection
  • International queer film festival Merlinka
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    December 3, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Queerz Get Loud
    Lublinie
    Poland
    September 22, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Looks Around Film Festival
    Bottrop
    Germany
    November 13, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Prvi Kadar International Film Festival
    Sarajevo
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    November 13, 2020
  • Festival de Cinema de Alter do Chão
    Santarém
    Brazil
    Official Selection
  • Select Respect Film Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    November 29, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Face Film Festival Zannzibar
    Zanzibar
    Tanzania, United Republic of
    October 25, 2020
    Official Selection
  • OMOVIES Film Festival 2020 - International LGBT Film Festival
    Napoli
    Italy
    December 10, 2020
    Official Selection
  • MikroFAF - International festival of DIY and independent short film
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    November 13, 2020
    Serbian Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Ado Hasanovic

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.

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Director Statement

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.