No Man's Land

Set during the Bosnian War in 1993, No Man's Land places two soldiers from opposing sides, Ciki and Nino, in the same trench between the front lines. A third fighter lies on a mine that will detonate at his slightest movement, leaving the enemies trapped together with no safe way out. A United Nations sergeant, acting against his superiors' orders, tries to help them, while the news media turns the standoff into an international spectacle as both sides weigh whether a ceasefire will hold.

Danis Tanović wrote and directed the film, his first feature. It was released in 2001 and runs 98 minutes. Branko Đurić plays Ciki and Rene Bitorajac plays Nino, with Filip Šovagović, Georges Siatidis, Sacha Kremer and Alain Eloy among the supporting cast. The production was a European co-production involving Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States, Slovenia, France and Switzerland, backed by companies including United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Eurimages and RAI, on a budget of about 1 million USD.

The film went on to take roughly 5 million USD worldwide, several times its modest cost. On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 7.8/10 from 98 reviews, while on TMDB it has 7.5/10 from 519 votes, indicating strong approval from both professional reviewers and general viewers. Tanović followed it with September 11, Tigers, The Postcard Killings, Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair and My Late Summer.