DREAMING EUROPE

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Duration: 19 min
Production year: 2020
Country of Production: Italy/Bosnia

During the lockdown, the life of teenagers all around the world became the same: no school, no friends, no freedom. The shrinking of the daily routine we all witnessed has probably been even more challenging for them, sentenced to live with their parents and forget personal boundaries at the most complicated age. Europa che Sogna follows the similar fate of the adolescents of the Oratory of Gratosoglio in Milan, the Des Ambrois highschool in Turin, and the Grbavica II elementary school in Sarajevo: the Italian ones forced into lockdown, the Bosnian ones in quarantine for having taken part in the Peace Campus in Milan in February 2020. This experience will undoubtedly change their lives forever, but they will learn that their voices are stronger than any kind of wall.

  • Official Selection Social World Film Festival 2021
  • Official Selection  Serbia International Youth Film Festival 2021
  • Official Selection Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
  • Official Selection Zaporizhzhia International Film Festival 2021
  • Official Selection Gargano Film Festival 2021

Ado Hasanović (born in Srebrenica 1986) is a Bosnian film director based in Rome. From 2008-2011, Ado has been the Creative Director of the Srebrenica Short Film Festival. He graduated from the Sarajevo Film Academy as a film director in 2013. He later attended the National Film School ‘Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia’ in Rome, where he specialized as a film director. In 2015, he started working as Art Director for the Mediterranean Short Film Festival in Sant’Antioco, Italy. As a guest student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, he finished a Master in Dramaturgy. He won several international awards for his short films “The Angel of Srebrenica”, “Blue Viking in Sarajevo”, “Mum”“Breath of life Srebrenica” and “Pink Elephant”. His first feature film “ Ja Sam Ana” is in development with the Italian production Il Gigante. The film won the Focus Fox Sudio Award at 15 th Sofia Meetings.

Filmography:

  • L’angelo di Srebrenica
  • Blue Viking in Sarajevo
  • Mamma
  • Pink Elephant
  • Breath of life Srebrenica
  • Ja Sam Ana
  • Nomofobia

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