The White Fortress

Name: The White Fortress
Genre: Drama
Released: April 22, 2022
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Alban Ukaj, Bilal Halilovic, Farah Hadzic, Hasija Boric, Irena Mulamuhic

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Game Theory Films | Release Date: April 22, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Alban Ukaj, Bilal Halilovic, Farah Hadzic, Hasija Boric, Irena Mulamuhic, Jasmin Geljo, Jelena Kordic, Kerim Cutuna, Pavle Cemerikic, Sumeja Dardagan

Summary: In the rundown Sarajevo suburb of Alipasino Polje, Faruk is an orphan who lives with his ill grandmother and spends his days foraging for scrap metal and dabbling in petty crime. One day he meets Mona, a timid teen from a politically powerful and affluent family. As Mona dreams of escaping the overbearing toxicity of her home life, sheIn the rundown Sarajevo suburb of Alipasino Polje, Faruk is an orphan who lives with his ill grandmother and spends his days foraging for scrap metal and dabbling in petty crime. One day he meets Mona, a timid teen from a politically powerful and affluent family. As Mona dreams of escaping the overbearing toxicity of her home life, she seeks refuge and opens herself up to Faruk, a boy from a world entirely different than her own. … Expand

Director: Igor Drljaca

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Barry Hertz

Apr 6, 2022

The White Fortress is a startling, hypnotizing, but above all haunting work destined to linger. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Apr 20, 2022

The film is both a love story and a lament for the city where the director grew up. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Apr 20, 2022

Drljača’s dialogue is sharp and alive throughout the film, particularly so during Mona and Faruk’s first date. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Apr 20, 2022

The sad, wise heart of Drljača’s small, impressively controlled film condemns neither of them, but instead understands what horror stories and fairytales have in common: both are narratives in which the characters have no control, and are instead propelled by forces far bigger than they are, toward destinies they were born into that they cannot avert. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Apr 21, 2022

Does it lose focus from time to time? Sure, and its cumulative effect suffers because of it, but Drljača nails the little moments that matter. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Apr 20, 2022

A walk through the woods is thus the scenario that brings up the two genres. Mona sees promise and excitement being alone with Faruk while he sees the shadowy unknown harboring monsters ready to pounce. The film ultimately exposes that neither is true thanks to Drljaca’s decision to keep things firmly rooted in the uncertain volatility of reality—these teens crossing paths creating as much room for strife as joy in the grand scheme of things. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 20, 2022

Drljaca gives this simple story just enough melodrama to get by, and frankly it could have used more. But it is an engrossing portrait of romance in a beautiful place not-that-many-decades removed from a genocidal civil war. Read full review

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