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10 Minutes (2002)

10 Minutes poster
Original title
10 minuta
Directed by
Ahmed Imamović
Genre
drama film
Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Runtime
10 min
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film shows ten minutes from the life of a Japanese tourist enjoying Rome. At the same time, less than an hour away, a Bosnian family experiences a brutal war in Sarajevo. The movie contrasts these two very different realities.

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What happens

10 Minutes is a 2002 short film contrasting ten minutes in the life of a Japanese tourist in Rome with the bloody drama of a Bosnian family taking place at the same time less than an hour away in the besieged city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. It was directed by Ahmed Imamović. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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