Excursion
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Director: Una Gunjak / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Norway, Qatar, Serbia / 2023 / 94 min
Bosnian / Czech subtitles, English subtitles
11:10 - 12:44
Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
10:40 - 12:14
Aula UTB/U2
Una
Gunjak
Una Gunjak was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her first short film The Chicken premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week in 2014 and won the European Film Award for Best Short Film. Her other short film Salamat, made in Germany within the initiative Lebanon Factory, premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in 2017. Excursion is her first feature film and gained the support of Eurimages, Aide au Développement at Cinemed 2019, Hubert Bals Script and Project Development Fund, and Sorfond in 2021.
Filmography:
THE CHICKEN (short) - 2014
SALAMAT FROM GERMANY (short) - 2017
EXCURSION - 2023
In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking validation claims that she had sex for the first time during a game of "truth or dare" among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she invents a pregnancy and becomes the center of a controversy that spirals out of control.
