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May 2026
Best Drama Feature
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Dino Mustafić
The Pavilion (Paviljon)
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Meet Dino Mustafić
Biography
Dino Mustafić was born in Sarajevo, where he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts, Department of Directing, and also studied Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He has directed numerous theatre productions in European cities as well as in the United States, Africa and Asia, in various languages, and his productions have won awards at national and international festivals. He has also directed several documentaries. In 1997, he made the short feature film "724" and later directed the feature film "Remake." He is a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo and has served as director of the MESS International Theatre Festival and the National Theatre in Sarajevo.
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Best Drama Feature
About “The Pavilion (Paviljon)”
After years of enduring torture from the staff and receiving increasingly poor service for their money, a group of residents of the nursing home 'Pavilion' decides to stage an armed uprising. A group of elderly men and women, armed with illegally acquired weapons, occupy the 'Pavilion,' taking the management and medical staff hostage, and entering into conflict with the authorities. The rebels turn a seemingly hopeless situation into their advantage, drawing media attention and manipulating the political elite, whose reactions are influenced by the fact that the hostage crisis occurred during an election year. T…
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