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Ou of Competition > Miki Manojlović Retrospective

In Paris, a family is victim of a tragic incident, when the patriarch is accused by his wife of pedophilia. Years later, the three sisters have independent dysfunctional lives and never see each other. The middle sister Sophie finds that her beloved husband and photographer Pierre is unfaithful and is having an affair and leaves her. The youngest, Anne, is student of Sorbonne and has a crush and gets pregnant of her professor Frédéric, who is married and father of her best friend. The oldest sister, Céline, is a lonely woman that periodically travels by train to visit her handicapped dumb mother Marie that is trapped in a wheelchair in an asylum for elders. When the stranger Sébastien contacts Céline, she believes he is a shy admirer; however, after an awkward encounter, he reveals secrets from the past that will affect the relationship among the sisters.

Danis Tanovic was born in 1969 in BiH. He studied at the University of Sarajevo Music Conservatory, where he played the piano. He also studied at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Sarajevo until 1992 when he discontinued his studies due to the Siege of Sarajevo. At that time he joined a film crew that followed the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Much of the captured film footage has since been used in films and newscasts documenting the Bosnian war. In 1994 he went on to finish his studies in Belgium during which time he made several critically acclaimed documentaries. He graduated in 1997, moved to Paris and began working on the script for “No Man’s Land” (2001) which won 42 awards, including the European Film Academy Awardor Best Screenplay, the César for Best First Feature, the Palme d’Or for Best Screenplay in 2001 at Cannes, a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.