Bosnia and Herzegovina has selected Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic’s drama My Late Summer as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

The film, which world premiered as the opening film of the Sarajevo Film Festival over the summer, is a comedy drama about a young woman who travels to a remote island to solve an issue of family inheritance.

In a whirlwind of new emotions and through a series of unpredictable situations, she finally faces questions from her past. The search for inheritance becomes a search for her own identity, but also for forgiveness.

Tanović is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina most acclaimed directors.

He broke out internationally with his Bosnia War inspired No Man’s Land which won he Oscar and Golden Globe for best foreign language film in 2002. He has also won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) and Death in Sarajevo (2016). 

My Late Summer is produced by Propeler Film (Croatia), and co-produced by Tangaj Production (Romania), Obala Art Centar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Baš Čelik (Serbia) and Tramal Films (Slovenia).

The Oscar entry selection process was overseen by the Bosnian and Herzegovina Film Professionals Association and a commission consisting of director Nermin Hamzagić, casting director and production coordinator Narcisa Cvitanović, producer Amira Kudumović, screenwriter Melina Alagić and set designer Emina Kujundžić.