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Who is Marijana Jankovic?

Marijana Jankovic is a Danish actress and director known for her work in the Danish film industry. She has appeared in titles such as Helium, The House That Jack Built, and the series Arvingerne. She also wrote and directed the autobiographical short film Maja.

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Sarajevo unveils Open Air lineup and closing night film

Sarajevo Film Festival (August 14-21) has unveiled the lineup of its Open Air programmes, which includes a restored version of Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovi?’s 2001 feature debut No Man’s Land as the festival’s closing night film. Set amid the 1990s Bosnian War, No Man’s Land had its world premiere in 2001 at Cannes. It won the best film and audience awards at Sarajevo later that year, and the Oscar for best international feature at the 2002 Academy Awards. This festival screening marks the film’s 25th anniversary with a world premiere of Studiocanal’s 4k digitally restored version. The screening

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Sarajevo Unveils Open Air Programs, Including Diego Luna’s ‘Ashes,’ ‘Minotaur’ and ‘No Good Men’

Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its Open Air program, with films such as the Cannes-premiering Minotaur and Diego Luna’s Ashes set to screen at the fest’s largest venue, the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema. Pawe? Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, starring Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, will open the section at the Bosnian film festival, with Danis Tanovi?’s 2001 film No Man’s Land set to close it. The movie takes place in 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By a twist of fate, ?iki, a soldier in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, finds himself trapped in the same trench as Nino, a Bosnian Serb soldier. Also premiering in the program is Luna’s film about two siblings forced to leave Mexico and head to Madrid to reunite with their mother, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. When they arrive, however, the bitter, suffocating

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Home (2026) ‘IFFR’ Movie Review: Dejan ?uki? Towers Over Heartrending Drama of Fresh Starts

Marijana Jankovi?’s “Home” (2026) reckons with having to leave one’s life and start anew. How does one find the tenacity to power through a completely fresh slate? Opening in 1991, Yugoslavia, Marko (Dejan ?uki?) is no stranger to the national calamity. Dissolution is on the anvil, causing people to pack bags and leave. Marko holds off on joining in the swell of departures. The country is plummeting, the economy dangerously stretched thin. Yet, circumstances are so dire that it gets increasingly impossible to keep the family afloat on the back of a business with diminishing or stagnating profits. Droughts keep worsening, and salaries stay suspended for months without any possibility of materialising.

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Home - Edin Custo - 20179

In a fictionalised return to Danish director Marijana Jankovi?’s own uprooting from Yugoslavia to Denmark in 1991, we watch an autobiography unravel through the eyes of six-year-old Maja. Migration as rupture, childhood as sudden responsibility, language as both salvation and burden, these elements in Home accumulate less as shaped drama than as therapeutic reconstruction. It becomes compelling only when it stops reenacting the past and begins observing its aftermath. In 1991, the Petrovi? family lives in what is today Montenegro as Yugoslavia begins to fragment, the same year Slovenia and Croatia declare independence. The economy is collapsing, and Marko (Dejan ?uki?) is failing to provide, a pressure that quietly humiliates him.

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Home truths by Edin Custo

Marijana Jankovi? on Home: 'For me it’s about a family, about dreamers trying to do their best' Photo: Manuel Claro Marijana Jankovi?’s feature debut Home expands the premise of her award-winning short Maja into a longer, multi-decade portrait of migration, labour, family pride, and belonging. Inspired by Jankovi?’s own uprooting from a fracturing Yugoslavia to Denmark, it is seen through six-year-old Maja, who arrives with her parents while her two older brothers are left behind until the family can build a life stable enough to reunite. The story tracks low-paid work, bureaucracy, and the quiet inversion in which a child becomes the household’s translator and emotional anchor.

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‘Home’ Director Takes Us Inside the Migration Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl – With Help From Trine Dyrholm and Claes Bang

What and where is “home”? And what is identity? Actress-turned-director Marijana Jankovi? explores these questions as she takes us inside the emigration and immigration experience, including displacement and sacrifice, with Home, a cinematic journey through the eyes of a young girl whose family gets uprooted from Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia to Denmark. In 2018, the creative made her debut as a screenwriter and filmmaker with the short film Maja (2018), based on her own childhood. Now, she is ready to world premiere her debut feature film, based on the short, in the Big Screen Competition of the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Wednesday, Feb. 4. Jankovi? wrote the screenplay for Home with Babak Vakili, Bo Hr. Hansen, and Emil Nygaard Albertsen, with cinematography by Manuel Claro and editing by Jenna Mangulad. The cast features Dejan ?uki?, Nada Šargin, Tara Cubrilo, Jesper Christensen, and Zlatko Buri?, with Danish

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