Film "The Great White House" at Sarajevo Film Festival

SARAJevo, (Patria) - The film "The Great White House" has shown the impact it leaves on audiences and professional juries at various festivals through a series of successes. After winning the title of best film at the Dubrovnik Film Festival 2018 and the main award in the documentary film category at the "New Wave" film festival in Sofia, it continues to attract attention.

Namely, the film "The Great White House" will be screened at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival as part of the BH Film program in the documentary film category on August 20, 2019, at 12:30 PM at Cinema City.
BH Film, spearheaded by the Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a program aimed at promoting Bosnian-Herzegovinian film, and it proves every year to be an important and indispensable platform for BiH.
authors, regardless of where they live and work.

"The Great White House" is entirely the work of members of the group of young people treated for cancer – MladiCe, who operate within the Association "Heart for Children with Cancer" and their mentor Zoran Zoka Ćatić, created exclusively through volunteer work and great enthusiasm, who wanted to show in this way that we must constantly seek new ways for young people to publicly talk about problems, while also highlighting the possibilities for their solutions. The young people in the film talk about the Parent's House and its importance for children with cancer and their families, and one of the film's goals was to emphasize the lack of solutions for financing the Parent's House of the Heart for Children Association.

The film's protagonists, young people who survived childhood cancer, discuss optimism, motivation, and plans for the future in achieving their dreams, now and before
the dangerous disease they survived, based on their own life experiences.

"We are immensely pleased that we will finally present the film to the BiH public, and we are especially honored that it will be within the Sarajevo Film Festival. "The Great White House" represents our soul, our motivation, and in it, we spoke most honestly, from the heart, about ourselves, about what drives us, about the difficult fight for life, and everything we learned during it. Although it is short and only 15 minutes long, the film is very inspiring and everyone should watch it. Therefore, we hope that the hall will be full during the screening of "The Great White House". Once again, we thank our mentor Zoka Ćatić for this wonderful film and the Association of Filmmakers of BiH for recognizing the value of this film and the message it carries," said Ajla Nizić, a member of the MladiCe group who is one of the protagonists in the film.