"Director: Danis Tanovic"

• Hell | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £7.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (181.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three sisters, estranged after a shared childhood trauma, are gradually reunited by a young stranger with a surprising revelation.

• No Man's Land | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A brilliant take on the tragedy that beset his country, Danis Tanovic's directorial debut No Man's Land is a bleak comedy set during the war in Bosnia. The story begins as a group of Bosnian soldiers emerge from a fog to realise that they have strayed into a thin strip of land unclaimed by either side in the conflict. A bloody sequence of events ensues, which results in a disputed trench being occupied by weathered Bosnian veteran Branko Djuric and his opposite number, Rene Bitorajac's Serbian greenhorn. There's a standoff between them, complicated by Djuric's injured colleague lying atop a "bouncing mine". He's a human booby trap--move him and the everything within 50 yards will be blown sky-high. As the blue-hatted, ineffectual UN are called in, and with the world's media, led by the late Katrin Cartlidge as a rather snotty BBC reporter, swiftly arriving on the scene, this single trench becomes an almost Beckettian metaphor for the war. Tanovic is not especially concerned with taking sides in the Bosnian-Serb conflict. Whatever its causes, both sides are seen to be as bad, or more accurately as desperate, as each other. That it's hard, for outsiders in particular, to tell who's who much of the time only heightens the irony. There's anger at the media intrusiveness ("Does our misery pay well?" screams Djuric at the reporters), but what's really conveyed is a sense of the absurdity, futility and intractability of war, as summarised in the final image. From the grotesque mess of conflict, Tanovic has fashioned a perfectly judged and beautifully executed movie. On the DVD: No Man's Land is presented in widescreen with a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. There are no extras, other than an English language option for the hard of hearing. --David Stubbs

• Shell Shock | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £4.92   |  Saving you £8.07 (164.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Written and directed by Oscar winning director of NO MAN'S LAND, Danis Tanovic, SHELL SHOCK is a gripping story about the violence of war.

• 11/09/01 - September 11 | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £10.10   |  Saving you £9.89 (97.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic events in New York City that shook the world on September 11 2001. producer Alain Brigand invited 11 renowned international directors to look towards their own cultures their own memories their own stories and their own language and create a film lasting eleven minutes nine seconds and one frame - 11'09''O1 - around September 11 and its consequences. The thought-provoking results - made with complete freedom of

• An Episode in the Life of An Iron Picker | DVD | (14/07/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy cooks bakes and cares for their two small daughters. One day she feels a sharp pain in her abdomen. At the hospital she is told there is something wrong with the baby she is carrying: They say it's dead. She is at risk of septicaemia and they must operate immediately. But Senada has no medical insurance; since the operation will cost much more than the family can afford the hospital's head refuses to treat her. A race against time together with a mounting sense of hopelessness played by a cast of non-professional actors re-enacting an episode from their own lives.