Neocekivana Setnja
François Lunel
Pushed by love for his girlfriend, Senka, Senad leaves hospital in a besieged Sarajevo. His flat destroyed, he goes to live with his friend Zan, Zenka's sister. Zan acts as a clown in a little theatre and he proposes that Senad becomes an actor. Senka throws herself into her work as a nurse at the city hospital. They all try, in their own way, to find a normal life in this dead town. Whereas numerous pictures and information about the war reached the west, François Lunel takes the following view : "we decided not to talk about the war itself in order to concentrate on life during war, what is left of humans when life has no meaning. Bosnians talk with their own voices, and I as a French wanted to use cinema as an interactive tool showing what we would only normally see through our own culture."
With : Senad Basic, Adnir Glamocak, Minka Muftic, Vanesa Glodo
Screenplay : François Lunel & Luc Bénazet
Image : Velija Sakota
Sound : Ljubomir Petek
Editing : Christel Tanovic
Screenplay : François Lunel & Luc Bénazet
Image : Velija Sakota
Sound : Ljubomir Petek
Editing : Christel Tanovic
Production : Stop Film, Buka 5, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnie Tél./ Fax. 00 387 71 665 393
Francois Lunel was born in Paris in 1971. He attended film classes at University Paris VIII, and started making documentaries for the cable television. He left for Sarajevo in 1992, where he lived until 1995, working for two years with Ademir Kenovic on documentaries. He has made three fictional shorts : "Juliette, Romeo" (1991/92) and "Verte la Vie" (1990) as well as three documentaries set in ex-Yugoslavia : "Born in Bosnia" (1992), "Dessine-moi" (1993), "Sarajevo Backdrops" (1996). Shot during the war, "An unexpected walk", was made betweenJuly 1994 and January 1997. François Lunel is currently finishing the screenplay of his second feature -"Peaceful Days".