'Belvedere' is Bosnia Oscar entry

MOSCOW -- Ahmed Imamovic's "Belvedere" will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina within the foreign-language film Oscar race.Imamovic's second movie was selected over Adis Bakrac's "The Abandoned" with a committee hired through the Balkan country's Assn. of Filmmakers.The choice committee, chaired by director Nedzad Begovic, composed fellow helmers Semsudin Gegic, Namik Kabil, Danis Tanovic and Srdan Vuletic company directors of photography Mustafa Mustafic and Almir Dikoli producer Zoran Galic and costume designer Lejla Hodzic.The haunting black-and-whitened movie traces the effect on the lives of households from the 8,000 Muslim males and boys killed in Srebenica throughout the Balkans civil war. It opened in your area last fall and it has tested at numerous film festivals, including Sarajevo.The title is really a mention of the a refugee camping where, fifteen years following the war crime that shocked the planet, widows, moms and kids wait because the remains of the family members are exhumed from mass graves. Director mixes stars and real-existence children to inform a disturbing story that's prone to have arthouse and fest appeal but is a try to sell you for wider auds.Pic is created by Samir Smajic of Comprex, also is handling worldwide sales.The deadline for those nations to transmit within their distribution is March. 1. The 84th Oscars is going to be held February. 26 in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com