Mira Furlan wins Best Supporting Actress Award

Goran Markovic's film The Tour has won the 16th International Film Festival in Minsk, Belarus. The festival jury declared The Tour as the best film, while actress Mira Furlan got an award for best actress in a supporting role.

Markovic's film also got an award from a special jury of critics, Serbian Ambassador to Belarus Srecko Djukic told Tanjug.

The Tour was also the Serbian Oscar candidate earlier this year.

http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/serbia/105167.html

Mira Furlan

"Turneja" available on DVD

English and French sub-titles included.

North American site:
http://www.dssound.com

European site:
http://www.yu4you.com


Mira Furlan

"Cirkus Kolumbija" ("Circus Columbia")

Filming will begin Monday, October 19th on "Cirkus Kolumbija", a new film directed by Danis Tanovic. Tentative release is set for 2011.

Mr. Tanovic won both the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and Golden Globe in 2002 for "No Man's Land".

Co-starring in the film is Miki Manojlovic, who has worked with Mira in a number of films including Emir Kusturica's 1985 Palme d'Or winning film at Cannes "Otac na sluzbenom putu" (the 1985 winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes), and Rajko Grlic's "Za srecu je potrebno troje". He was also the star of Kusturica's 1995 Palme d'Or winner "Underground", Grlic's "Samo jednom se ljubi" and Kusturica's "Crna macka, beli macor".

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/life_and_style/22889/


http://us.imdb.com
http://www.nezavisne.com
http://www.srbijanet.rs
http://www.blic.rs
http://www.b92.net

Updated October 16, 2009


Mira Furlan

"Turneja" in Chicago December 18, 2008

Serbian Film on Tour
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The Tour, film by Goran Markovic

18. December 08 • 9:00PM

CHICAGO, IL
North Riverside Mall Theatre
North Riverside Park Mall,
7501 West Cermak Road,
North Riverside (just west of Harlem)
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Tickets $12.00



Mira Furlan

"Turneja" ~ November 2008 screenings

Toronto Serbian Film Festival - Bloor Cinema - Toronto, Canada
http://www.culturebridge.ca/filmskifestival.html
http://www.bloorcinema.com
Nov 14, 2008 9:30pm & Nov 15, 2008 4:30pm


49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=448
Thessaloniki, Greece - November 14 to 23rd, 2008


32nd Cairo International Film Festival
http://www.cairofilmfest.org
Cairo, Egypt - November 18 to 28th, 2008


Mira Furlan

"Gola koza" ("Bare Skin")

Mira recently completed filming in Sarajevo for a new project entitled "Gola Koza" ("Bare skin"). She plays "Cica" one of the principal characters in a drama involving a young boy named "Denis" abandoned after the war in Bosnia in the 1990's.

The film is directed by Adis Bakrac and other cast members include, Haris Burina, Dragan Marinkovic, Zijah Sokolovic, Meto Jovanovski, Vili Matula, Mirsad Tuka, Emina Muftic, and Mirela Lambic, with Toni Grga as "Denis"

The official site is here: http://www.bareskin.co.ba

Expected release date is sometime in 2009


Mira Furlan

Turneja ~ October 2008 screenings

Raindance Film Festival
London UK - October 12, 2008

30th Mediterranean Film Festival
Montpellier, France - October 25 & 28, 2008

Mira Furlan

"Turneja" - Serbia's 2009 Oscar entry in Foreign Film Category

"Turneja" ("The Tour") has been officially chosen to be Serbia's entry for the 2009 Academy Award in the Foreign Film category. Ninety six countries have been invited to submit an entry for the 2009 Oscars, and 5 will be nominated in the category.

The Academy Award nominations for all categories will be announced on January 22, 2009, with the presentation of the Awards being on Sunday, February 22, 2009.

http://www.blic.co.yu/kultura.php?id=57567

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2008&mm=09&dd=20&nav_id=319684


Mira Furlan

"Turneja" ~ October 2008 Screenings

13th Pusan International Film Festival
Pusan, South Korea - October 3, 5 & 7, 2008

Sava centar
Belgrade, Serbia - October 8, 2008

Raindance Film Festival
London UK - October 12, 2008



Mira Furlan

"Turneja" ~ Official Site

http://www.testament-films.co.yu/turneja/index.htm

http://www.testament-films.rs/tour/index.html


Mira Furlan

Turneja at 2008 Montreal Film Festival

Turneja will be shown at the Montreal Film Festival in August of 2008.

http://www.b92.net


http://www.ffm-montreal.org

Mira Furlan

"Turneja" ("The Tour")

Mira leaves for Serbia and Bosnia within the week to begin filming a new movie called "Turneja" ("The Tour") written and directed by Goran Markovic. The screenplay for the film is based on Mr. Markovic's award winning stage play of the same name. One of Serbia's best known film directors, he was the creative force behind such films as "Tito i Ja", "Kordon" (winner of the grand prize at the Montreal Film Festival in 2002), "Nacionalna klasa" and "Majstori, majstori". He's a director who understands actors, being the son of Rade and Olivera Markovic two very well known Serbian actors

The plot of the film involves a group of actors on tour out of Belgrade in 1993 who get caught up in the conflict in Bosnia. It is not so much a story of the war, as it is the story of the actors.

The cast includes Dragan Nikolic, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Josif Tatic, Vojislav Brajovic, Jelena Djokic, and Tihomir Stanic.

Filming on the project begins December 21st, 2007 and will conclude at the end of February 2008.
http://www.nacional.hr/articles/view/41525/
http://www.blic.co.yu/kultura.php?id=24698
http://www.blic.co.yu/intervju.php?id=162#
http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/showbiz/crveni-tepih/mira-furlan-boravi-u-bih
http://dnevnik.hr/scena/film-tv/video-mira-furlan-u-svadzi-s-gradom-zagrebom.html
http://www.nezavisne.com/vijesti.php?vijest=18497&meni=15
http://www.pressonline.co.yu/vest.jsp?id=25621
http://www.blic.co.yu/zabava.php?id=23509
http://www.cafemontenegro.cg.yu/index.php?group=4&news=14617
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996982/


Mira Furlan

The Inner Circle

Official Website
http://www.insidetheinnercircle.com

Behind the scenes clip, including footage of Goran
http://www.insidetheinnercircle.com/1.html

The movie is finally out on DVD, but only as an R4 Australian release so far. On ebay for $24.99USF.

Goran Gajic

From Variety - Mira filming new movie called Apology

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=chart_film_prod_d&dept=Film&recordid=111\7786301

Title: APOLOGY
Last Updated: Wed., Dec. 27, 2006 12:39pm

Studio: Apology
Production Start/End: January 3, 2006
Status: Production / Filming in the U.S.
Location(s): Washington, D.C.


Primary Actors: Christine Ryndak, Vincent Piazza, Mira Furlan, Fredric Lehne, Leah Yananton
Executive Producer: Orlando Bustos, Ezra Swerdlow
Producer: Larry Engel, Leah Yananton
Director: Yananton
Screen Writer: Yananton
Cinematographer: Engel
Production Designer: Becky Shpak
Set Director: Sean O'Harra
Sound: Lorenzo Millan
Unit Production: Carly Hugo


First Entered: Wed., Dec. 27, 2006

Mira Furlan - Upcoming work

Mira will be returning to Hawaii to shoot an episode of LOST, in the very near future. She isn't a large part of this episode, but it seems to be a setup for possible future storylines.

And!! :-)

In the beginning of the year, Mira will be shooting a movie in the US. It's an independent production, with a script she likes, and apparently the producers asked for her, rather than her having to audition for it. As I get more releasable details on this project I will be passing them on.

Mira's movies

This has been coming up from a few fans in a few places - so I'm reposting it here:

Pretty much NOTHING of Mira's ex-Yugoslavian stuff is available with ENGLISH subtitles.

The 5 exceptions being:
Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business)
The VHS tape that was issued by Fox Lorber and Koch Lorber's DVD release have subtitles. Most video rental places with a half-decent collection of foreign films will probably have Koch Lorber's VHS release in their foreign film collection. But, there are also VHS tapes and DVD's that were issued in Serbia that do not have subtitles on them.

U raljama zivota (In the Jaws of Life)
The tape that is available from Facets Video in Chicago
http://www.facets.org $29.95
There are other releases of this film both on VHS tape and on DVD that do not have English subtitles on them.

Braca po materi (Maternal Halfbrothers)
The DVD release has subtitles - but is missing some of the scenes that were on the VHS tape that does NOT have subtitles.

Cao Inspektore
Which is a really crappy (homophobic, misogynistic) movie, has subtitles on the DVD release. Personally I'd pass, unless you have a lot of her other movies already.

Video jela, zelen bor (Dear Video) - directed by Mira's husband Goran Gajic.
The tape that Mira sold at conventions back in 1997 had subtitles - these are now rarer than hen's teeth - haven't seen one on ebay in at least 2 years. Rumours are that this film may be released in Serbia in the foreseeable future, but I have no information about whether it will have English subtitles on it, I'm assuming NOT until I hear for sure otherwise.

That is the whole complete and entire list of Mira's movies that are/were available with English subtitles. And that explains a lot about why I have been trying to learn Serbo-Croatian.

There is an English DUB issued in Taiwan of Put na jug (El Camino del Sur, Southbound). But it does not have the original soundtrack (with Mira's voice) on it. Sometimes it turns up on ebay *really* cheaply.

There are also a few French and German DUBS of a few of her films out there. Any film that has been DUBBED into French, German or English, also has a version available on either tape or DVD or both with the original soundtrack and Mira's voice on it. Mira did NOT do any of the dubs. If you are going to watch Mira's films in a language you don't understand, go for the version with the original soundtrack. Check either the IMDb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001245/ or my list here http://www.zlatna.com/celebration/mfilmo.html to make sure that you are getting the original Yugoslavian title, and not one of the dubs (unless you are at least relatively fluent in the language the film is dubbed into).

There are a lot of her films that are now available out of Serbia on DVD, and more appearing all the time. Many are Region 2, some are Region 0. Assume that they do NOT have English subtitles on them.

When Father was Away on Business

If you haven't yet seen this film of Mira's, there are 3 copies of the DVD on Ebay for $7.99US, which is as good a price for it as I've seen. This is one of the few films that Mira did in the former Yugoslavia that is easily available with subtitles.

It's a marvelous film, directed by Emir Kusturica. Kusturica won his first Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1985 for this film, he followed that 10 years later with a win for "Underground". He's one of only 4 directors to have twice won the Palme.

http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=w\hen+father&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=2%26fsoo%3D2&fgtp=&ftrt=1&ftrv=\1&saprclo=&saprchi=&seller=1&sass=barneysrubble&sa-1010=2

Warning URL may wrap and you might have to cut and paste.

Bunker Palace Hotel on DVD.

From Amazon France - bundled with another of Enki Bilal's movies.

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BEU38O/qid=1136749097/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_\
10_1/402-2805386-1575367

It's a region 2, and I'm assuming no subtitles.

If you're in North American it's 23Euro (reduction for the VAT) plus
shipping.

And if you have an Amazon account your log in info should work for
Amazon France.

Take a Deep Breath (Disi duboko) Screenings

Take a Deep Breath (Disi duboko) Screenings


June 5th, 2005 ~ New York City
NewFEST -
http://www.newfestival.org/cgi-bin/iowa/films.html?film=870

June 23rd, 2005 ~ San Francisco
Frameline 29 -
http://www.frameline.org/festival/29th/programs/take_a_deep_breath.html

July 10th & 13th ~ Los Angeles
OutFest 05 -
http://www.outfest.org/tixSYS/filmguide/filmnote.php?FCode=TAKEA


There is a much better movie in here than the one that ended up on screen, but Mira is delicious in this.

Shot in Belgrade in 2003

Take a Deep Breath (Disi duboko) Screenings

June 5th, 2005 ~ New York City
NewFEST -
http://www.newfestival.org/cgi-bin/iowa/films.html?film=870

June 23rd, 2005 ~ San Francisco
Frameline 29 -
http://www.frameline.org/festival/29th/programs/take_a_deep_breath.html

There is a much better movie in here than the one that ended up on screen, but Mira is delicious in this.

Shot in Belgrade in 2003