UBC instructor Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress is going to the Oscars

VIFF film will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2022 Academy Awards in foreign-language film category

UBC FILM ASSISTANT professor Igor Igor Drljača’s third feature film The White Fortress has been selected to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 94th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020).

The film, which tells an aching story of the after effects of war on Sarajevo’s youth, recently screened at VIFF, with its world premiere earlier at the 2021 Berlinale. The film is a Canadian-Bosnian coproduction.

In the film, orphaned teenager Faruk (Pavle Cemerikic) is drawn toward the fast money of a life of crime with his cousins in a Soviet-era housing project, while falling in love with rich girl named Mona.

Drljača is also the producer with Albert Shin through Canada's TimeLapse Pictures.

You can read Stir's review of The White Fortress here.

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