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Black Bear's management arm has added 'Sweet Dreams' filmmaker Ena Sendijarević as a client.

The Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker's portrait of colonial decline won a best performance prize in Locarno and has its North American premiere at Toronto.

Ena Sendijarević's "Sweet Dreams' is a drolly exquisite period parable about colonial rot that makes for a startlingly accomplished sophomore film

The Athens-based sales and production company has acquired world sales rights to the Bosnian-Dutch director's sophomore feature.

In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute?

Howie Movshovitz came to Colorado in 1966 as a VISTA Volunteer and never wanted to leave. After three years in VISTA, he went to graduate school at CU-Boulder and got a PhD in English, focusing on the literature of the Middle Ages. In the middle of that process, though (and he still loves that literature) he got sidetracked into movies, made three shorts, started writing film criticism and wound up teaching film at the University of Colorado-Denver. He continues to teach in UCD’s College of Ar...

Written and directed by Ena Sendijarevic Take Me Somewhere Nice was written and directed by Ena Sendijarevic (born 1987), an Amsterdam-based Bosnian filmmaker and screenwriter. It is her first feature film. A teenage girl, Alma (Sara Luna Zoric), living in the Netherlands with her mother, returns to her native Bosnia to visit a father, now seriously ill, who she hardly knows. Her cousin Emir (Ernad Prnjavorac) picks her up at the airport, but, apart from that, ignores Alma, including her reques...