Balkan Series Get Global Push at Sarajevo’s CineLink Drama Co-Financing Forum

Three teenagers from Serbia, all living in an institution for young people with special needs, aren’t exactly intent on expressing their feelings vocally in Ivan Ikic’ deceptively titled second fiction feature, Oasis (Oaza). The talented writer-director’s frenzied but vibrant debut, Barbarians, from 2014 but set in 2008, looked at the lost generation of adolescents coming of age after the Balkan Wars, who had no people to look up to and who were desperate to simply feel something.

HBO Max series, created by Aaron Guzikowski and executive produced by Ridley Scott, premieres on Thursday, and ET has an exclusive sneak peek. The sci-fi drama centers around two androids, Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), who are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious new planet after the Earth was destroyed by a great war.

While the on-track Formula 1 action at Spa-Francorchamps was a surprisingly tepid affair, there were still plenty of key talking points throughout the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.

straight to your inbox The agent of Kevin De Bruyne is under investigation in Belgium. The offices of Patrick Koster, head of the Manchester City star’s agency J and S International Football Mangement were raided yesterday by the Belgian federal public prosecutor’s office, according to respected newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN).

Netflix is giving fans their first look at the upcoming series The Haunting of Bly Manor, a new show from the creator of the hit series The Haunting of Hill House.

Ed Meza @edmezavar“Bad Blood,” an ambitious new Serbian feature film and TV series, has become the first project from the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Drama co-financing forum to go into production since the event’s establishment in 2016.Set in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century, “Bad Blood” is based on the works of renowned Serbian writer Borisav Stankovic and a script written by Yugoslav filmmaker Voja Nanovic in the early 1970s while he was living in New York City and working for

Ed Meza @edmezavar“Hold Me Right,” a documentary by first-time Serbian director Danijela Stajnfeld, is certain to shake this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival with its exploration of sexual assault and its impact on survivors.Stajnfeld, a celebrated actress in Serbia, left the country for the U.S. a few years ago after she was sexually assaulted by a powerful and well-known industry figure.

Peter White Television EditorPeacock has handed a series order to young adult mystery drama One of Us is Lying and has tapped Darío Madrona, co-creator of Netflix’s Elite, as showrunner.The streamer has given the adaptation of Karen M.

Will Thorne Staff WriterMacGruber is officially back in action.Peacock has issued an eight-episode order for a “MacGruber” series which will see Will Forte reprise the role he created while on “Saturday Night Live.” News of the pick up was announced at the NBCUniversal streamer’s TCA press day, and comes around eight months after the show was first put in development.The half-hour series is an adaptation of the 2010 feature film of the same name, and will also be directed by the film’s helmer

Christopher Vourlias “Do You Remember Dolly Bell?,” the directorial debut of iconic Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica, has joined Heritage Online, the Locarno Film Festival’s recently launched platform for classic movies.Set in Sarajevo in the mid-1960s, the film—an irreverent, coming-of-age story about a young man who falls in love with a prostitute—earned Kusturica the Golden Lion for best first film at the Venice Film Festival in 1981.

Winners of two Palme d’Or awards at Cannes – Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005) – Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are known for their incisive, socially minded output.