''10 Minutes'' is a 2002 short film contrasting ten minutes in the life of a

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ese tourist in

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with the bloody drama of a Bosnian family taking place at the same time less than an hour away in the besieged city of

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during the

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. It was directed by

Ahmed Imamović Ahmed Imamović (born 1971) is a Bosnian film director, film producer and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplay ...

Cast

*Elmedin Leleta as Kid (as Almedin Leleta) *Satoshi Yahata as Tourist * Milan Pavlović as Shopkeeper *

Jasna Žalica Jasna Žalica (born 1968) is a Bosnian actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, an ...

as Mother *

Izudin Bajrović Izudin Bajrović (born 9 February 1963) is a Bosnian theater, film and television actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1986. Recent activity In 2017, Bajrović signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, ...

as Father *Admir Glamočak as Atko *

Enis Bešlagić Enis Bešlagić (born 6 January 1975) is a Bosnian actor. In the 2000s, he starred in several films such as ''Fuse'' (2003), ''Summer in the Golden Valley'' (2003), '' Ivko's Feast'' (2005), ''Ram za sliku moje domovine'' (2005) and '' All for F ...

as Soldier 1 *

Elmir Jukić Elmir Jukić (born 1971) is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from the directing department at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 1993. One of Jukić's most distinguished works as a director is the popular Bosnian ...

as Soldier 2 *Sanja Burić as Sanja *Advan Tabaković as Kid playing football

Awards

The film was awarded Best short film of 2002 by the

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References

External links

* 2002 films American short films {{short-film-stub