J.B. Spins

There are things you never get accustomed to. Sasha Susic is a Balkan War veteran still struggling with relatively mild PTSD. He has witn...

At least in one respect, life in Sarajevo has changed for the better since the 100 th anniversary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin...

The apartment complex where Damir lives and works probably looked great as a scale model, but the hulking brutalist building does not exa...

It’s like the Love Boat or Fantasy Island, except this Adriatic resort caters to a dumber, hornier clientele. Naturally, it is the perfec...

You can tell what preoccupies a nation’s subconscious from the villains and nightmares that appear in its films. As one would expect, the...

Tragically, the bridges of Bosnia-Herzegovina have been irrevocably altered by the war. The most widely reported example is the obliterat...

For cineastes, the notion of divided cities conjures images of The Third Man’s occupied Vienna. In contrast, there is nothing particularl...

They are the things that unify a country. Music, culture, humor, and you had better believe sports all very much define a nation’s charac...

In a cruel twist of fate, Oggi Tomić’s Sarajevo orphanage may very well have been shelled by his Bosnian Serb relatives he had never had ...

Supposedly, Tito held Yugoslavia together as one big happy family.  Nonetheless, a late 1970’s episode of ethnic-religious strife eventu...

Mirza Delibašić vaguely resembled John Stockton and played a similar style of basketball.  He was a lethal outside shooter, who regularl...

War is not conducive to stronger family values.  It is not great for the economy either.  One Bosnian woman will struggle with both aspe...

A film ought to be just long enough to tell its story.  While Hollywood has not conditioned audiences to think of short films as star ve...

In an inspiring example of artistic resiliency, the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra maintained their public performance schedule throughout ...

A Bosnian immigrant is not overly enamored with his new Canadian residence.  His feelings towards his homeland are even more complicated...

Stipe might be a misanthropic drunk, but he periodically seeks enlightenment through a New Agey handstand exercise.  It is not much to h...

Is it possible to lead a normal life after witnessing the horrors of war?  During the upcoming 2012 Bosnian-HerzegovinianFilm Festival ,...

Communism was supposed to create the “new man.” Somehow it did not take in the former Yugoslavia. Perched on the brink of war, a small Bosni...