FUSE [GORI VATRA]

SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER AT 7:30PM UGC SHAFTESBURY AVE SCREEN 2

Country Bosnia/Herzegovina Running Time 105 mins Format 35mm Dir/S'play Pjer Zalica Prod Refresh Productions DoP Mirsad Herovi Cast Izudin Bajrovic, Senad Basic, Bogdan Diklic Print Source Flach Pyramide International W www.flach-pyramide.com

Fuse is about normal people living in an abnormal situation, about their hope for a better life, about their temper, and about the famously short fuse of the ex-Yugoslav people. Set in Bosnia and Herzegovina two years after the war which ravaged the region, beneath the idyllic surface of the tiny village of Tesanj is hunger, hidden minefields, ethnic intolerance, widespread organized crime, prostitution and corruption. When the community finds out that the American president is planning a visit, the race against time is on - they have to clean up the corrupted system and establish a democracy. The dialogue is memorable and the local humour is highly original and as in No Man's Land and Pretty Village, Pretty Flame the irony of the after-war situation is very well captured. It's fascinating how effortlessly the situation of this once beautiful country is portrayed trough a series of tragicomic scenes. As Zalica commented himself 'We were brave to laugh at our troubles and problems during the past difficult decade. I've realized that during the war years I was doing war documentaries and war movies, still after all this there is belief in the better life'. That is exactly the message that a viewer will get from this movie, that after all the darkness there can only be light. AK

Pjer Zalica graduated from the Academy of Arts in Sarajevo. He was the screenwriter for the Ademir Kenovic movie Perfect Circle. His directing credits include: MGM (Man - god - monster) (1994), Made in Sarajevo (1998) and Mostar Sevdah Reunion (2000).