Dreamers (2009)

Directed by

Nermin Hamzagić

Genre

documentary film

Country

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young hip-hop artists from a Bosnian village get beaten up by the mayor's son for a protest song. A theater company discovers them and they join a play about troubled youth, eventually touring the world.

hopefulrawintimateunderstatedgrittyreflective

What happens

Dreamers is a Bosnian short documentary film produced by the East West Theatre Company and directed by Nermin Hamzagic. The film follows the story of Samir Karić and Amir Muminović, young hip-hop artists from the village of Hajvazi, near the north-eastern Bosnian town of Kalesija. The mayor's son gave the hip-hop duo a bad beating because of their song which criticized municipal authorities. A newspaper report on the incident intrigues East West Theatre Company, a theatre and film production company from Sarajevo. Shortly after the incident, Samir and Amir become part of the cast of Class Enemy (play) a play about disenfranchised youth in a violent secondary school in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Samir and Amir eventually end up touring the world with the East West Theatre Company's production. The film Dreamers is devised as a road movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• À propos de Sarajevo (2005)
• Back to Bosnia (2005)
• Bakovi sa Zmijanja (2004)
• Paycheck (2005)
• Totally Personal (2005)
• Balada (2022)
• The Stone Speakers (2018)
• Bosna! (1994)