Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to the Bosnian mystery crime series “Komar,” which celebrated its world premiere a year ago at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
“Komar” is produced by BH Telecom (BH Content Lab) with SCCA/Pro.ba as the executive producer. It is the third series on which BH Telecom and Beta Film have collaborated, following “I Know Your Soul” and “The Hollow.”
The eight-hour show joins Beta’s growing slate of high-end shows from the Balkans, including Canneseries and Shanghai TV Festival winner “Operation Sabre” from Serbia, which recently aired on ARTE and was praised as “masterful political thriller” by Spiegel and “a powerful and committed thriller” by Télérama.
Other series from the region include Venice Film Festival TV entry “I Know Your Soul” by Jasmila Žbanić, the Bulgarian drama “Shattered Bonds and the long-running Greek TV sensation “The Beach,” among others.
“Komar” centers on Mersiha. When her boyfriend Miki vanishes without a trace while travelling by bus through the Komar mountains, Mersiha and her best friend, Jasna, set out to search for him. Meanwhile, some of the travelers wake up on the bus and find it lost in the middle of nowhere, without a cellphone signal or any way to get back to civilization. As Mersiha and Jasna get sucked deeper into the mystery, it turns out that dark forces are trying to thwart their efforts.
Timur Makarevic is the showrunner; Vedran Rupic and Una Gunjak share directing credits.
In the lead roles are Lejla Hakalovic, Pia Vrdoljak and Igor Skvarica.
Beta Film is represented at this year’s edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival by senior executive at Beta’s Kids & YA, Julia Schweiger, who is among the panelists of the Cinelink panel “From SKAM to SRAM: Youth Drama, Public Broadcasters, and the Power of Adaptation.”
