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英语课
By Victoria Cavaliere
New York
06 June 2007

A young film festival in New York City is showcasing Bosnian filmmakers to a growing U.S. audience. From VOA's New York bureau, Victoria Cavaliere reports that the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival is also earning critical praise.


For the past four years, the Bosnian community in New York has staged the festival to showcase some of the best feature films, documentaries and shorts the country has to offer.






Tribeca Cinemas hosted Fourth Annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival


Tribeca Cinemas hosted the 4th Annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival



This year, the festival moved into a larger space. With the new location came an expanding submission 1 list and fan base.


Leila Rachidi is a member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Selection Committee. She says there were 20 submissions 2 for the 2007 festival that took place in May. Twelve films made the final line-up. She says the audience was an even split between Bosnians and New York film enthusiasts 3.


"Film is Bosnia's best export these days," she said. "The Bosnian film industry has grown tremendously, especially since that Oscar win for "No Man's Land" several years ago. We want to show how good the film is especially for a small country like that."


According to unofficial estimates, there are between 150,000 and 200,000 Bosnians emigrants 4 in the United States, 20,000 of whom settled in New York. Most arrived during the civil war and "ethnic 5 cleansing 6" campaign of the 1990s that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.


Rachidi explains that Bosnian films draw on the history of the people. But she says they also convey a shared human condition, and she thinks this helps explain their wider appeal.


"I know there's something in Bosnian films that always shows people resilience in the face of adversity," she said. "This is a country going through simultaneous change, it went through the fall of communism, major economic changes, the wars and so the films always show this resilience in the face of adversity but always, always with a dose of humor."


Rachidi says many of the Bosnian films of the past decade have been about the war, but more and more, they concentrate on the realities of daily life.


This year, the audience award for best short or feature film went to Grbavica.  The movie is based on the lives of a mother and daughter living in Sarajevo. The film was also nominated for the grand jury prize at the prestigious 7 Sundance Film Festival.


The prize for best documentary went to Carnival 8.  The film explores the fate of Bosnian refugees who were picked up in Montenegro in 1992 and sent to a Serb-run prison.


Many of the films were first shown at the Sarajevo film festival in August. But Rachidi says more films are now having their debut 9 in New York.


"Definitely we're getting more professional, we're attracting bigger audiences, moving to larger theaters, definitely there's a vision," she said.


The film festival is organized by the local non-profit groups The Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Voice of Bosnia and Herzegovina.




n.服从,投降;温顺,谦虚;提出
  • The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
  • No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。
n.提交( submission的名词复数 );屈从;归顺;向法官或陪审团提出的意见或论据
  • The deadline for submissions to the competition will be Easter 1994. 递交参赛申请的截止时间为1994年的复活节。 来自辞典例句
  • Section 556(d) allows the agency to substitute written submissions for oral direct testimony in rulemaking. 第五百五十六条第(四)款准允行政机关在规则制定中用书面提交材料替代口头的直接证言。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
n.热心人,热衷者( enthusiast的名词复数 )
  • A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive. 一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. 一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。 来自新概念英语第二册
n.(从本国移往他国的)移民( emigrant的名词复数 )
  • At last the emigrants got to their new home. 移民们终于到达了他们的新家。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • 'Truly, a decree for selling the property of emigrants.' “有那么回事,是出售外逃人员财产的法令。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
adj.有威望的,有声望的,受尊敬的
  • The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
  • You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。
n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演
  • I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
  • Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
学英语单词
a ball of strings
a rub on one's way
accessible address space
asclepias
assistant stoker
autophosphorylate
axial angle apparatus
bag weighing machine
base-line measurement
basket huck aback
be at its lowest ebb
benguets
Berezovik
billy goat
blacksmith welded joint
bodrug
bondur alloys
booking list
bowheads
Breitungen
cable boat
cap plug
cheta
communional
deceleration limit
degree days
diachronic public relations
do sth up brown
double base
draintube
dry chamber
elbon
enchance
Erigeron altaicus
event tree
explicit faith,explicit belief
express authority
fault detection algorithm
fenetradil
fishtown
fundamental driving force
fursultiamine
get wind of
green bass
guanidino-
halogenated hydrocarbon system
harp-player
hb
Hedera sinensisivy
here's looking at you
hizzolla
HLVS
HS (hollow spindle)
incubator house
invasor
jekyll-and-hyde
km(kilo-meter(s))
laminar flow dye laser
latent surplus population
legal lease
liquid column gage
Lobac
mast lift truck
maximum axle laden mass
method of column analogy
Mlicrococcus ureae
modified accrual basis
modiolus philippinarum
Mosquito Lagoon
mysteriums
not know any better
omnisciences
operation form
OPWL
outmanage
packing cargo transport unit
parallel determination
parenchymatous syphilis
phlebenterate
phosphoribosyl-5-aminoimidazole
plumbous fluoride
pogromed
quasi-shear wave
recording program
regulating rheostat
rehoist
rhabdo
SABTS
seven kinds of prescriptions
smale
spring rail anchor
squalidine
strategic atomic weapon
strawier
sublobe
subtidal facies
swear an oath, take an oath
take-up hub
thoracic local eminence
unfarewelled
wide band filter
yathrib