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Mostar United

MOSTAR UNITED
Claudia Tosi
Italy, Slovenia, 2008, 54 min

  

WEBSITE
www.mostarunited.wordpress.com

 

AWARDS and FESTIVALS
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA, 2008
Sarajevo Film Festival, 2009

PRESS
"A documentary movie about a youth soccer team form Velez, which represent Mostar's pride of Unity, the symbol of a single side. A story that talks about today's Bosnia and Herzegovina, and not just about that." ~ Mauro Cereghini, Osservatorio Balcani

 

SYNOPSIS

Mensud fought in the Bosnian war, defending his hometown Mostar and the Old Bridge. Now that peace has returned and the Old Bridge has been rebuilt, Mensud is fighting once again, this time against new nationalist mentality there.

Torn apart and enraged by ethnic conflict, Mostar is more like two ghettos divided by a big boulevard, than a joyful Montmartre of the Balkans that it once was before the war. From the pitch of the Velez football school, the legendary team of Mostar, Mensud teaches an army of kids the value of friendship and unity, as his son and one of his players Dzenan, who dreams of playing for a major European team and living in a safe environment, cannot stand this struggle any longer.