You are using an unsupported browser, so some features may not work. Please upgrade to a modern browser
Ihr Webbrowser ist veraltet und wird leider nicht in vollem Umfang unterstützt.

BLUM – Masters of their own destiny

BA 2024, 75 min, Jasmila Žbanic

After the Second World War, in devastated, rural Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of illiterate people, the entrepreneur Emerik Blum created a large and successful global company, "Energoinvest," that operated worldwide with a billion dollars in profit. Taking advantage of the specific position of Yugoslavia that was between East and West, socialism and capitalism, the company operated on a worldwide unique business model based on the workers’ participation in management and profit. Blum turned a small engineering atelier into a great company success by operating under the self-management model. The self-management model is a system in which all employees in a factory or enterprise decide on everything concerning their company. This most democratic model worked excellently in this case but is largely unknown today. Through interviews with contemporaries who knew Blum, his workers, as well as archive interviews with himself, the film paints a portrait of a genius man and a story about a special time. The way Blum thought and worked today seems like science fiction!

pictures

Festivals

Director´s Fortnight FF 2025, US | Zagreb Dox 2025, HR I Bosnian FF 2025, US I Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg 2025, DE I Beldocs 2025 RS I Sarajevo FF 2025 I FicUba 2025, AR 

Awards

Bosnian entry for the 98th ACADEMY AWARDS - "Best International Film"

QUEERFILMNACHT

FEBRUAR 2026

NIGHT STAGE

ein Film von Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon

Brasilien 2025, 119 Minuten, OF mit dt. UT

"So sexy wie smart" Screen Daily 

Mi, 11.2., 20.40, KIZ Royal Kino, Graz
Mo 16.2., 20.00, Votivkino Wien
Di 19.2., 20.10, Volkskino Klagenfurt
Mo 25.2., 20.30 Cinematograph Innsbruck

 

read more

NEWS

IM KINO:

RENATE Jetzt im KINO  

Ein Film von Martin Nguyen 

Wien: Village Cinema, Admiralkino 
Innsbruck: Leokino
Wels: Programmkino Wels 

22.2., 13.00 Matinée im Filmhaus, mit RENATE WELSH, Ausverkauft 

27.2., 18.30 Graz-Premiere mit Renate Welsh und Martin Nguyen 

Ab 27.2. in folgenden Kinos:  
Moviemento Linz
KIZ Royal Graz 

6.3., Kino im Kesselhaus, mit Regisseur Martin Ngyuen 

10.3. Klagenfurt: 18.00 Lesung Renate Welsh im Musilinstitut, 19.30 Filmvorführung im VOLKSKINO mit Martin Nguyen und Renate Welsh 

Weitere Kinos folgen

ORT OHNE ERINNERUNG. KAISERSTEINBRUCH, die verschwundene Geschichte

Ein Film von Reinhard Tötschinger 

13.2., 14.2., 15.2., 20.2. und 21.2. Bruck an der Leitha 

BLUM - Gospodari svoje buducnosti

Ein Film von Jasmila Žbanic

weitere Termine in Kürze 

IN DEUTSCHLAND IM KINO 

Nächste Termine in Kürze

GemeindeKINOs schaffen KINOgemeinden

Erlebt echte Kinomomente bei euch im Ort!
Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf  

www.gemeindekino.at oder
www.facebook.com/GemeindeKINO
 

ALARM jetzt STREAMEN

Kino Vod Club, Watch AUT
 

read more

FESTIVALS

SIRI HUSTVEDT Dance Around the Self

INT. PREMIERE @ CPH:DOX 

Highlights Section
12 March, 20.00 
18 March, 12.15, 21.15
20 March, 21.00
 

WHERE YOU MEET US SOON IN PERSON

18 - 22 March Diagonale 

read more