True/False Premieres Documentary On Sarajevo’s Old Olympic Luge Track

On the Trepevic Mountain over Sarajevo, the cement is compactly seen through the tested terrain – a high channel moistened with colored writings. Local population and tourists enjoy walking along the inverted path, but a pleasant picnic does not come without danger – at gave moments, humans exchange it at a speed of more than 80 miles per hour.

This is the running Lue and Bobsleight, which was built more than four decades ago Olympic GamesThat was held in Sarajevo in 1984, a moment of glory to Yugoslavia before the country separated and sent to the civil war. Today, despite its collapsed condition, the concrete basin still attracts young Bosnian athletes chasing Olympic dreams.

Three of these young people – Mirza NicolagivZlatan Jakic, Hamza Blau – and their coach, the Sinad of Omanovic, PathWhich held the first global offer on Friday in True/wrong Film Festival in Colombia, Mo. Young people not only face all physical demands to compete at the elite level, but also face continuous obstacles related to the lack of funding and disintegration infrastructure.

presentation PathReal technical manager/error Chloe Trener He pointed out that “this film completely stole the hearts of our programming team as soon as it is watching.” The documentary seemed similarly to the audience at the Missouri Theater; When the lights appeared, giving them a standing applause.

The documentary project came from the membership, Canadian Director Ryan Sidho Explain during a question and answer after the first presentation. He said: “I started traveling in the area and only the warmth of people, and acceptance, I felt somewhat like a second house.” “I was like, Wow, I loved this place. So, I kept going back.”

On one visit to Sarajevo, he rose along the old run. He recalls, “They were preparing it, and they were telling me to get out of the path,” he recalled. “I was confused about the reason for my news. [I] Just a kind of sponsoring the relationship with the coach [Senad]. After eight years, we are here. ”

Sidhoo joined the questions and answers of Mirza Nicholasv, who traveled from Bosnia-Hesigovina to the festival.

“It is really amazing to watch the past eight years of your life and just, it’s difficult for me to speak at the present time,” participated in Nicholasv. “A very emotional vision of all that happened, how we evolved during our upbringing.”

The path does not work in the winter. In the summer, lugers can be revealed to the wheels with wheels, but this is easier than doing it. The film shows that the coach Sinad fixes the damage to concrete, fallen cracks and spinal debris from the cycle – the archaeological and pine needles from the surrounding trees that can prove a huge risk of enlarging the esophagus at a break. As Sinad notes in the movie, he trained many Olympic teams for Bosnia-Hergovina, but he did not gain a penny for his efforts because there is no available funding.

In recognition of the financial difficulties faced by the coach and athletes in the film, the festival was chosen Path As a recipient of 2025 The real life box. The quick response icon was shown on the screen during a question and answer, allowing the audience to contribute; Tayner, Sidhoo and Nikolajef also spoke on stage Donations It started to install, and soon up to more than $ 10,000.

When asked about how to use the money to use it, Nicholasv said: “This will help me a lot in the upcoming Olympic season. This will help me focus more on my training on the same path, on skis. I will not have to work this summer mainly. I will all be in Lue, then I finally get the second Olympic games, and qualify for it.”

like Path The shows, Nicholasv qualified for Beijing Winter Games in 2022, and worked as a co -holder for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the opening ceremony. At a moment of chance, the wink in the camera coincided with the television ceremony, which created something of a sense of Chinese viewers.

“With this enchanting wink, the Olympic athlete Mirza Nicholasv drew the attention of millions of Chinese people,” the Chinese embassy in Bosnia-Hergovina noticed at the time, and [he] Save the list of hot topics on popularity [social] Weibo Network. “

This automatic MIM provides a great moment in the documentary. But the film’s shading is the anniversary of the war, which killed an estimated 100,000 people in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995. Most of the Bosnian Muslims were, and some of them were slaughtered in the terrifying ethnic cleansing acts committed by banking forces. In the midst of the fighting, the LEGE path in Sarajevo has become a defensive barrier, as the city’s protectors flow on the holes via concrete for the weapon.

“When you make a movie, you want to have a larger message,” Sidhoo commented. “I think the history of the post-war Bosnia is still-it is ignored, but it is incredibly related. I think that if you look at what is going on in the world today, you can look at the Bosnia and look at Mirza, Zlatan and Hamza, and these children interact with the war every day, although the war has ended 30 years ago … you must be in Sarah only and see another effect“ another ”probably or provokes this point About these things that still exist.

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to be held in Milan and Cortina de Ambizo, Italy, 42 years after those games that have been drunk in Sarajevo.

In a question and answer, Nicholasv praised the director Ryan Sidho. In reference to the filming process, Sidhoo said, “It made it feel that it was not until it recorded it. I’m very happy because he did so, so far we can cherish memory. We can always get it, I can show it to my friends and future children, they are likely to be. It is great to be so.”