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''The White Fortress'' () is a 2021 Bosnian-Canadian
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film written and directed by Igor Drljaca. The film premiered on March 1, 2021 at the
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. Produced by Canada's Timelapse Pictures and Bosnia-Herzegovina's SCCA/pro.baIt, it had its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival. It was selected as the Bosnian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the
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Plot

Faruk (
Pavle Čemerikić Pavle Čemerikić (born 1999) is a Serbian actor. He is most noted for his performance as Faruk in the 2021 film '' The White Fortress (Tabija)'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen ...
), a teenage orphan living with his grandmother in the suburbs of
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, is drawn into a romance with Mona (Sumeja Dardagan), a member of a wealthy, politically powerful family. The film's cast also includes
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 ...
,
Ermin Bravo Ermin Bravo (born 5 December 1979) is a Bosnian actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2001. He is most known for starring in the 2003 Bosnian film ''Remake''. Bravo is also remembered as a unique character in the 2017 film '' Men Do ...
, Hasija Borić, Kerim Čutuna and
Jasmin Geljo Jasmin Geljo (born September 18, 1959) is a Bosnian-Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in ''Cube Zero'', as Ryjkin, and in the films ''Land of the Dead'', '' Assault on Precinct 13'' and '' The Sentinel''. He also appears in ''Schitt's ...
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Awards

The film was named to the
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's annual year-end
Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema". ''Welland Tribune'', November 23, ...
list for 2021.Norman Wilner
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'', December 6, 2021.


See also

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List of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film This is a list of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Acade ...
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List of Bosnian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Bosnia and Herzegovina has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1994. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture ...


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* 2021 films 2021 drama films Bosnian-language films English-language Bosnian films Bosnia and Herzegovina drama films English-language Canadian films Canadian coming-of-age drama films Films directed by Igor Drljaca 2020s Canadian films {{2020s-Canada-film-stub