The Waiting Room

A Canada Film Days' Selection. Special guests in attendance! Writer/Director Igor Drljaca and lead actor, Jasmin Gelko

“Igor Drljaca’s new film The Waiting Room, an acute observation of the Bosnian diaspora in Canada. Sarajevo-born actor Jasmin lives in Toronto with his wife, Patricia, and his ten-year-old son. Though he was a respected actor in pre-war Yugoslavia, here in Canada Jasmin is consistently typecast. He makes a modest living as a construction worker while constantly auditioning (more often than not, for the roles of criminals), and periodically performs the culturally specific Bosnian comedy skits that have made him somewhat popular amongst Toronto's Yugoslav community. But Jasmin is going through a difficult time, and he feels less and less able to communicate or engage meaningfully with society and family alike. When he is offered a part in an art installation about a family's vacation trip during the Bosnian War, the role triggers his own wartime memories and leads him to unsettling questions about what lies ahead.

“From the opening shot to the last, The Waiting Room is steeped in the idea of performance, both personal and cultural. With startling honesty, and a lyricism that's based in raw reality, it chronicles a set of rarely seen difficulties endemic to the immigrant experience. This is a forcefully political film about an unpredictable and fascinating character — a man who, struggling for integration, holds onto art as the most valuable tool he has for making sense of his world.” - TIFF

"A poignant character study of the immigrant expererience." Indiewire

 

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