In the Name of the Son

In the Name of the Son (2007) is a drama/thriller short film, set during and after the Bosnian War in present-day Los Angeles, written and directed by Harun Mehmedinović, produced by Vikramadithya Singh with Ajfelov Most as fiscal sponsor. The 25-minute film took a year and a half to complete and premiered at Telluride Film Festival in September, 2007. The film is not autobiographical, but it addresses the breakdown of normal societal ties that everyone in Bosnia witnessed and that Mehmedinović said he could not have written about without experiencing. The Name of the Son is a film that looks at human conflicts in the present, brought about during personal clashes in the Bosnian war in 1994. After escaping execution, Tarik, a Bosnian...