Mirjana Karanović

Mirjana Karanović

Nacimiento : 1957-01-28, Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]

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Mirjana Karanović

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Toma
Kosana Zdravković
Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.
Life of a Mutt
Dona (voice)
Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude towards them. Through the seven “wandering” characters that we follow at different ages, from birth to old age, we witness their dignified struggle for survival. At the cemetery, in an abandoned factory, in an asylum, in a landfill, in places full of sorrow, our heroes search for love and togetherness. By combining documentary material, animation and acting interpretation of the thoughts of our heroes, we get to know lives between disappointment and hope, quite similar to ours.
Mare
Marina majka
De forma rutinaria, pero con dedicación, Mare dirige la modesta casa de su pequeña familia, a pesar de que una nueva lavadora no es lo único que falta. Cuando un encuentro fortuito reaviva su libido, no se detiene por mucho tiempo.
The Diary of Diana B.
Mira
Creyendo firmemente que su propia vida no es más preciosa que la vida de personas inocentes perseguidas, con la ayuda de algunos amigos, Diana se embarca en una peligrosa campaña para rescatar a más de 10,000 niños de los campamentos de Ustasha en la Croacia ocupada por los nazis.
The Factory
Five uniquely moving films about motherhood—bubbling up in the grocery store, the cemetery, or even a car ride—come together in this omnibus film set in Sarajevo.
The Right One
Majka / Mother
A possessive mother, a loving son, the fiancée's first visit, a mute witness... Four players around a pie.
Second Chance
Angelina
Second Chance interweaves three stories of three women living in the same block of flats, creating a kaleidoscopic observation of the experience of being a mother and the self-sacrifice involved in bringing another life into this world. At a time of absurdities as Macedonia teeters on the brink of civil war, each of these women struggle to find meaning in their existence, each facing their own demons while trying to preserve their humanity.
Catalina
Mother
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
The Other Side of Everything
Self
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
Heart with No Cure
Nata
An older but still attractive widow falls in love with a younger man, which becomes the main gossip of her village and family.
Requiem for Mrs. J
Gospođa J
After she lost her husband and her job, Mrs. J is sitting in her living room with a gun in her hand.
Train Driver's Diary
Jagoda
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
A Good Wife
Writer
Milena, una mujer de 50 años, lleva una vida tranquila y próspera junto a su marido Vlada, un antiguo miembro de las fuerzas especiales de policía durante las guerras de Yugoslavia –actualmente un exitoso promotor inmobiliario- y los dos hijos de ambos. Tras un chequeo rutinario en el que los médicos intuyen síntomas de cáncer, Milena sufre un pequeño ataque de histeria y comienza a limpiar su casa en profundidad. En el transcurso de esta tarea, encuentra una cinta de vídeo con imágenes de las actividades llevadas a cabo por Vlada durante la guerra, que incluyen el asesinato de civiles. A partir de este momento, seguimos la evolución de Milena y sus esfuerzos por enfrentarse a la realidad, mientras intenta preservar lo único que le queda en la vida: su familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Good Wife
Milena
Milena, una mujer de 50 años, lleva una vida tranquila y próspera junto a su marido Vlada, un antiguo miembro de las fuerzas especiales de policía durante las guerras de Yugoslavia –actualmente un exitoso promotor inmobiliario- y los dos hijos de ambos. Tras un chequeo rutinario en el que los médicos intuyen síntomas de cáncer, Milena sufre un pequeño ataque de histeria y comienza a limpiar su casa en profundidad. En el transcurso de esta tarea, encuentra una cinta de vídeo con imágenes de las actividades llevadas a cabo por Vlada durante la guerra, que incluyen el asesinato de civiles. A partir de este momento, seguimos la evolución de Milena y sus esfuerzos por enfrentarse a la realidad, mientras intenta preservar lo único que le queda en la vida: su familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Good Wife
Director
Milena, una mujer de 50 años, lleva una vida tranquila y próspera junto a su marido Vlada, un antiguo miembro de las fuerzas especiales de policía durante las guerras de Yugoslavia –actualmente un exitoso promotor inmobiliario- y los dos hijos de ambos. Tras un chequeo rutinario en el que los médicos intuyen síntomas de cáncer, Milena sufre un pequeño ataque de histeria y comienza a limpiar su casa en profundidad. En el transcurso de esta tarea, encuentra una cinta de vídeo con imágenes de las actividades llevadas a cabo por Vlada durante la guerra, que incluyen el asesinato de civiles. A partir de este momento, seguimos la evolución de Milena y sus esfuerzos por enfrentarse a la realidad, mientras intenta preservar lo único que le queda en la vida: su familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
A mi lado
Direktorka škole
Olja es una profesora de historia de escuela secundaria, casada con un pintor cuya última exposición provocó reacciones violentas de los nacionalistas serbios. Una noche, un grupo de gamberros enmascarados la ataca. Filman el ataque y suben el clip a YouTube. Al día siguiente, Olja descubre que algunos de sus estudiantes fueron responsables. Ella les quita sus teléfonos móviles, y en el calor del momento decide encerrarlos en el edificio de la escuela, desconectando también los teléfonos de la escuela e Internet. Para resolver el problema juntos, y con la incapacidad de abandonar la escuela, los estudiantes comienzan a comunicarse. Durante esa noche, una generación que fue cancelada antes de que se les diera la oportunidad aprenderá más de lo que esperaban sobre ellos mismos y sus compañeros.
Monument to Michael Jackson
Darinka
In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is removed from the Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.
Three Windows and a Hanging
The journalist
In a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by her inner conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian forces. A critical view of a society which survived the war, won its independence but still struggles with human equality. An insightful portrait of a Balkan village, of a patriarchal microcosm, and of its mayor who desperately wants to control the village life. Of husbands who feel forced to behave strong, but act against their own emotional interest. A reflection of rituals which not only show gender inequality, but also the absence of freedom of expression within the male community.
Cure: The Life of Another
Grandmother
Teens Linda and Eta are inseparable friends, though they have plenty of disagreements, but one horrific argument has unexpected consequences.
The Reaper
Mirjana
Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night.
Equals
(segment "Katarina")
An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and has its own hero.
The Tree and the Swing
Νίνα
Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.
Death of a Man in the Balkans
Customer
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior.
The Whirl
Inspektorka
Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during the wartime 1990s.
Loveless Zoritsa
Majka
The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her are dying in most bizarre ways. The plot thickens when stubborn policeman Maane who doesn't believe in 'village tales' tries to investigate whether Zorica is a serial killer or a girl looking for love.
En el camino
Nađa
Luna y Amar son una joven pareja muy unida que intenta superar los obstáculos que surgen en su relación: el alcoholismo de él, la obsesión de ella por ser madre, las dificultades económicas y dos maneras distintas de entender la religión. Tras ser despedido del trabajo por su adicción a la bebida, Amar acepta un trabajo en una comunidad musulmana fundamentalista, bastante alejada de Sarajevo. Pasado cierto tiempo, Luna consigue ir a visitarlo y descubre, en medio de un paraje idílico, un mundo desconocido y lleno de rituales, donde hombres y mujeres viven completamente separados. Le ruega a Amar que vuelva a casa, pero él se opone porque en ese ambiente ha encontrado la paz y ha logrado superar su afición a la bebida.
Have I Told You I've Been Abused?
Herself
This docudrama is based on the genuine testimonies of eight women who survived sexual violence in childhood and in the past years addressed the service of the “Incest Trauma Center”.
Here and There
Olga
Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, travels to Belgrade to make some quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awry when the money never arrives, leaving Robert stuck in Serbia. Meanwhile in New York, Banko, the young Serb whose girlfriend Robert is to marry, fights to come up with the cash.
Wait for Me and I Will Not Come
Anđa
Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic and is mentioning suicide constantly, he simply doesn't want to accept that the relationship is over. He has self-pitying sessions with his friend Bane (Milos Samolov) everyday. Despite Bane's advice, Alek keeps calling Teodora who has fallen in love with Nemanja (Branislav Trifunovic) in the meantime. However decisive and tough Teodora is when she is with Alek, she is as indulgent and helpless when she is spending time with Nemanja. The problem is that Nemanja is not in love with her but with Marina (Vanja Ejdus), a girl by a few years younger. Unfortunately, Marina is not in love with him, she is very attracted to Alek's "Slavic depression". She doesn't know that reason for his "charm of a desperate" is his failure with Teodora, she thinks Alek was born like that.
Someone Is Still Waiting
Majka
1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital, waiting to be called to prepare for abortion. This unexpected meeting will start a lot of questions in their mind, and make them reconsider their decision. 2nd STORY: The Road. A country, somewhere in Serbia: mother is taking her daughter, along the road, to the doctor who lives alone in a wagon, in which he makes illegal abortions. All over that journey there is collision between mother's traditional attitude against pregnancy before marriage and daughter's youthful wish for a birth of a new life from love. 3rd STORY: Water. Nada, a young woman in late twenties, remembered in a prison cell, the tragical events which made her kill her husband. In the hospital, where she was taken by a police car, for making abortion of his child, she met a person, who she didn't expect to meet.
Jar Full of Air
Ljubica
In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak future. A shop-girl who's husband just left her is also in the center of attention.
Mirush
Hava
Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.
Fraulein
Ruža
Cuando era joven, Ruza dejó Belgrado y emigró a Suiza con la esperanza de emprender allí una nueva vida. 25 años después, todo parece indicar que ha cumplido sus objetivos: es dueña de un comedor en Zurich que regenta con mano firme y buenos resultados económicos. Ruza está muy apegada a su rutina diaria, estructurada meticulosamente, pero su ordenado mundo da un vuelco cuando entra en escena Anna, una joven de veintidós años procedente de Sarajevo. Ruza se siente amenazada por la conducta impulsiva de la joven, aunque también experimenta el magnetismo de su gran energía vital. Poco a poco va creciendo la amistad entre estas dos mujeres que, sin embargo, no consiguen salvar la doble barrera que las separa: el temor que siente Ruza a la hora de abrirse por completo a los demás y un secreto inconfesable de Ana.
Grbavica: El secreto de Esma
Esma
Esma quiere que su hija Sara, de doce años, tenga la oportunidad de participar en un viaje organizado por el colegio. Bastaría con un certificado probando que su padre murió como un mártir durante la guerra para que saliese a mitad de precio, pero Esma siempre da largas a Sara cuando esta le pide el certificado. Al parecer, prefiere remover cielo y tierra para encontrar el dinero y pagar el precio del viaje. Está convencida de que se protege a sí misma y a su hija si no le cuenta la verdad...
Go West
Ranka
In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a gay couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred.
La vida es un milagro
Nada
Bosnia, 1992. Luka, un ingeniero serbio de Belgrado, se ha instalado en una casa aislada con su mujer Jadranka, cantante de ópera, y su hijo Milos. Luka está preparándose para construir una vía ferroviaria que hará de la región un paraíso turístico. Pero, cegado por su trabajo y por su natural optimismo, Luka no presta atención a los persistentes rumores de una guerra civil inminente.
Witnesses
Majka
Es el año 1992 en Croacia, en una pequeña ciudad cercana a la frontera con Bosnia. En mitad de la noche, se comete un asesinato, resultando muerto el único vecino serbio de la localidad. El jefe de la policía local, una periodista y un ex combatiente que acaba de enterrar a su padre son los únicos que parecen interesados en el caso, pues para el resto de la población no es más que un "acto de guerra" más y tratan de persuadirles para que dejen sus investigaciones. Por otro lado, una familia croata da el último adiós al padre, muerto en la guerra. El hijo pequeño, jura venganza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Strawberry in the Supermarket
Chefin
Jagoda (Fresa, en español) es una joven cajera de un recién inaugurado supermercado que sueña con encontrar a su príncipe azul. Harta de trabajar, despide con malas palabras a una clienta anciana que ha entrado después del cierre. Al día siguiente, un joven vestido de guerrillero asalta el supermercado.
Cabaret Balkan
Natalija
20 people's paths crisscrossing one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe
Director
The story takes place in 1993 Serbia, torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his friend, a painter, and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a phone sex hot line and the two eventually fall in love. An another friend so his is a treasury guard in a bank governed by a shady lady known as "Serbian mother", notorious for cheating the thousands of creditors. The couple is planning to rob the bank and run away to a remote sunny island with palms.
Three Summer Days
Gazdarica
Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.
Underground
Vera
En Belgrado, Yugoslavia, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un poeta, Marko Dren (Miki Manojlovic), esconde a su amigo Petar Popara (Lazar Ristovski) y a su familia en un sótano para esconderse de los nazis. Allí ocultos deben fabricar armas para la guerra. Marko los engaña para que sigan fabricando armas 20 años después de la guerra y haciéndoles creer que aún no termina y que sólo han pasado 15 años. La película está llena de simbolismos y metáforas. Por ejemplo, tras el bombardeo a Belgrado, Blaky se limpia el zapato con un gato; al final, Petar, en la búsqueda de su hijo y tras descubrir que Marko y Natalija (Mirjana Jokovic) murieron, se apoya en una cruz que tiene a Cristo invertido. Además, en medio del fuego y la destrucción, hay un caballo blanco y un ganso volando.
Better Than Escape
Radmila
A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
The Little One
Božidarka
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
Migrations II
Evdokija Božić
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The second topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.
Time of Miracles
Marta
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
Meeting Place
Jelena Katić
Año 1969. Mientras el hombre llega a la Luna; en la Tierra un arqueólogo está a punto de dar con el hallazgo más importante de su carrera en un yacimiento arqueológico cerca de su pequeña ciudad, pero justo entonces sufre un infarto. Trasladado a casa por su ayudante, morirá al poco de llegar. Así seremos testigos de lo que acontece en el mundo de los vivos, y los muertos, con los que se encontrará el profesor en el "Sabirni centar".
Heart and Her Children
Srce
Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best teachers.
Hemingway, fiesta y muerte
Biografía de Ernest Hemingway desde su infancia hasta su trágico final en 1962. Su espíritu aventurero lo llevó a falsificar su fecha de nacimiento para combatir en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Herido en el frente del Piave (Italia), fue ingresado en un hospital donde se enamoró de Agnes von Kurowsky, una enfermera diez años mayor que él. En ella se inspira su novela "Adiós a las armas". Ya en Estados Unidos, tras la negativa de Agnes a casarse con él, decidió contraer matrimonio con Hadley Richardson. El film recoge también su larga y estrecha amistad con el escritor John Dos Passos. Debido al largo metraje de la cinta (220 minutos), a veces se emite la versión abreviada.
On the Road to Katanga
Pevačica Žana
Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of the old and new love, the events in and around the mine, all put his obsession with Katanga on test.
Ever-Ready Women
Majstor
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
Promised Land
Marta
Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
Papa está en viaje de negocios
Senija 'Sena' Zolj, majka
Yugoslavia, 1948. La ruptura de Tito con Stalin marcó el principio de un período de represión. Mesa es un buen hombre, casado y padre de dos niños. En una ocasión se le escapa un comentario crítico sobre política, y su amante, resentida, se lo cuenta al hermano de él, un funcionario del gobierno que hace que lo condenen a trabajos forzados. La mujer de Mesa consigue sacar la familia adelante y al más pequeño de sus hijos le cuenta que papá está haciendo un largo viaje de negocios. (FILMAFFINITY)
Two Halves of a Heart
Majka
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
The Fall of Italy
Mare
En la segunda parte de su trilogía bélica, Zafranovic aborda esta vez la historia de un partisano enfrentado al dilema de anteponer la causa política a sus esperanzas y preocupaciones particulares. Película extremadamente lírica y hasta sensual por momentos (luminosa su fotografía, el sol omnipresente), pero violenta y amarga en otros (especialmente al recrear los episodios de batalla en retaguardia), se aborda en ella la guerra como una cuestión moral, sin heroísmos, así como las consecuencias de la intransigencia ideológica, con independencia de su signo.
Handymen, Handymen
Dunja
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Petria's Wreath
Petrija
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
Mother Mara
“Mother Mara” follows a successful businesswoman and single mother who suddenly loses her 18-year-old son Nemanja to a heart attack. Instead of breaking down she buries the trauma deep inside. But when Mara meets 25-year-old gigolo Milan, the walls come down. She embarks on a physical relationship with him, then a friendship develops.
Mother Mara
Writer
“Mother Mara” follows a successful businesswoman and single mother who suddenly loses her 18-year-old son Nemanja to a heart attack. Instead of breaking down she buries the trauma deep inside. But when Mara meets 25-year-old gigolo Milan, the walls come down. She embarks on a physical relationship with him, then a friendship develops.
Mother Mara
Director
“Mother Mara” follows a successful businesswoman and single mother who suddenly loses her 18-year-old son Nemanja to a heart attack. Instead of breaking down she buries the trauma deep inside. But when Mara meets 25-year-old gigolo Milan, the walls come down. She embarks on a physical relationship with him, then a friendship develops.
The Absurd Scam
The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud, not knowing who cheats, and who is deceived.