10 · 23 · 17 Sarajevo Songs of Woe, by Fred Kelemen, was presented at the 15th FICM Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gustavo R. Gallardo The Special Guest of the 15th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), Fred Kelemen, known for works such as Kalyi (1993), Fate (1994), Frost (1998), Nightfall (1999) and Fallen (2005), presented his most recent film as director, Sarajevo Songs of Woe (2016). After eleven years without directing, the director of film and theater, filmmaker and German writer returns with a film conceived as two segments intertwined by a documentary, which, in 140 minutes’, tackles in an agonizing way, hope, death and love on a musical trip of sorts in the city of Sarajevo. Fred Kelemen, Iskra Jirsak. "On the title, we have three songs, each one has a specific role, there are three parts that come back and go away. Repetition is a very important element and is based on the number. There are melodies created especially for the film, like the dogs in the second part, some come from Croatia, others from a German band," he said during the Q&A session with the audience. Kelemen said that the film is as much about images as the reality of the images, in which they are pieces of the whole. "It is a mosaic of life. Everything is connected. Explaining it would be narrating the movie and that would be very strange," he said while laughing. Color management is an important part of Sarajevo Songs of Woe, as it begins in black and white and ends in color: "It is the perception of things, we see in color everything that is wrong, but what is black and white we see as good. If it had been the other way around we would have a different perception," Kelemen assured. The film will be screened on Tuesday 24 at 5:30 p.m. in Cinépolis Morelia Centro and on Friday 27 at 1:15 p.m. in Cinépolis Las Américas.
