Four sitcoms produced by BH ContentLab to be premiered at 30. Sarajevo Film Festival

Sarajevo is again the regional film industry hotbed thanks to the 30. Sarajevo Film Festival held from 16 to 23 August and BH Telecom is again the proud technological partner and the sponsor of the Festival!

The Festival days will be a unique opportunity to represent the new films and sitcoms, to have a good time, to make and strengthen private and business relationships, as well as to have unforgettable gatherings with a large number of film professionals, audience, media, etc.

BH Telecom BH ContentLab platform, the biggest BiH platform for the audio-video content production, has an important role in the biggest regional film spectacle, giving support for BiH cinematography to create the high quality and exclusive TV contents. 

Last three years BH Telecom invested 30 million KM in development of BiH cinematography.

The sitcoms Hollow, The Edge of Reason, Tender, I Know How You Breath, Prince from L.A. and Komar were successfully completed within the BH Telecom BH ContentLab platform.

This year we will premiere the four sitcoms produced by the BH Telecom BH ContentLab platform as follows: ˝Komar˝ created by Timur Makarević, ˝Hollow 2˝ created by Danis Tanović and Amra Bakšić-Čamo, the second season of ''Prince from L.A.’’ created by Elma Tataragić, Dušan Vranić, Enes Zlatar and Amra Bakšič-Čamo and directed by Alen Šimić, and the third season of sitcom ‘’Tender’’ created by Srđan Vuletić.

You will be able to subsequently watch these extraordinary sitcoms within MojaTV program exclusively.

Continuation of ‘’hollow’’ excitement

“Hollow” is a crime sitcom created by Danis Tanović and Amra Bakšić-Čamo, being characteristic for the high-quality production, intriguing story and a team of the extraordinary BiH actors.

After many positive critical reviews made in the first season, the investigation continues at the beginning of the second season and the story is going on in the police department premises, which could be screened in the Oslobođenje building. The time has stopped in the eighties. In every respect. Only corruption had a continuous progress.

The second season of the sitcom “Hollow” commences a year after completion of the first season. The body of the miner from Zenica was found in the Historical Museum, under the Josip Broz Tito monument. Everything points to suicide. Inspector Mido Zec decides to check the details and leaves for Zenica, his home city. Zenica police department has no issues with the fellow colleague from Sarajevo, but the Senior Inspector Vera has. The Senior Inspector Edib Pašić receives his award for the Hagada case he resolved, but the ceremony is interrupted by the bomb threat. Tanja, Edib’s ex-wife, also arrives in Sarajevo and makes a party for the old friends. Senči, having a paranoid fear of Smajli’s people revenge, is coming to the party as well.

Edib and Mido, located in Zenica and Sarajevo, are faced with the questions being considered as simple at first instance, but they finally investigate not only the cases but also themselves, their lives and life decisions.

The second season of the sitcom “Hollow” puts collective and individual moral issues, social awareness, future and belonging on the top.

The second season of the sitcom “Hollow” will be screened on 21 August in Cineplexx.

The first season of the sitcom “Hollow” received even six Heart of Sarajevo awards for sitcoms at the 29. Sarajevo Film Festival (in 2023) as follows: Heart of Sarajevo for the best drama series, Heart of Sarajevo for the best leading actor in drama series (Feđa Štukan), Heart of Sarajevo for the supporting actress in drama series (Ida Keškić), Heart of Sarajevo for the supporting actor in drama series (Boris Ler), Heart of Sarajevo for the best episode director of drama series (Danis Tanović and Aida Begić), Heart of Sarajevo for the best episode scenario of drama series (Danis Tanović, Amra Bakšić Čamo, Nikola Kuprešanin and Adnan Lugonić).

‘’Komar“ – The first local sitcom with mystery elements

The sitcom ‘’Komar’’, directed by Timur Makarević, Vedran Rupić and Una Gunjak, commences when Sarajevo – Jajce bus disappears on Komar mountain pass during the night. Local policeman Željko starts to look for the missing bus. Soon after they found out that an important package is in the bus, a lot of police and other state agencies come to the spot and the journalist Mersiha makes attempts to learn what actually happened. The mysterious package is the special SFRY weapon, so secret that even Tito did not know anything about it. A particle is missing in the package and it should be brought to Komar so that the special weapon starts working again and that the lost passengers come back.

The film crew includes a lot of young and creative people.

Feđa Štukan, one of the actors, shot certain scenes in Tito’s bunker in Konjic, without knowing anything about the complete story and what is actually going on there.

Momčilo Pićurić, the Montenegrin TV and theater actor, was glad to join the crew.

This sitcom is composed of six episodes lasting 50 minutes each.

The pre-premiere of this sitcom will be held on 17 August in Cineplexx.

The third season of the sitcom ’’Tender“

The sitcom ’’Tender“ is a humorous story about the state agency for public procurements implementation by the commission composed of the three members: Serb, Croat and Bosniac.

The sitcom ’’Tender“ will be screened on 20 August in Cineplexx.

Adnan Kapetanović, the screenwriter of the sitcom ‘’The Edge of Reason’’, confronted skillfully four generations, their interests, views and opinions, and the director Jukić knew how to pack them skillfully into many comic situations which altogether bring to the edge of reason. This comic sitcom, where Admir Glamočak, Aleksandar Seksan and Dragan Marinković Maca have the leading roles, follows three families and their reaction on all (un)usual situations they face.

The second season of the sitcom ’’Prince from L.A.“

The sitcom ’’Prince from L.A.“ is the story about Miki, 45-year old man coming back from the USA after many years, facing with the unexpected challenges and nostalgic hits from the past. He arrives with his wife Kate, convinced that he was a star in Sarajevo, but nobody recognizes him any more today. Everybody changed but he did not, and he decides to buy Kobilja Glava (nag’s head) TV company.

This sitcom will be screened on 19 August in Cineplexx.

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