DEATH IN SARAJEVO

At the Hotel Europa, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and understanding is supposed to start from here. But the hotel staff have other worries.

Volatile with the unburied tensions of 20th-century Eastern European history, Danis Tanović’s explosive interrogation of labor conditions and contested nationhood won the FIPRESCI and the Jury Prize at the Berlinale in 2016. Dirty laundry is aired and workers’ rebellions waver in this dynamite film.