Bosnian film director Benjamin Filipovi will attend the Seattle area’s first Bosnian movie marathon in Tukwila on Saturday, April 29.

Two films directed by Filipovi, Mizaldo and Well-Tempered Corpses, will be shown beginning at 6 p.m. at the Foster High School Performing Arts Center, 4242 S. 144th St.

The event is sponsored by Friends of Bosnia, a Highline Community College club.

A film essay made during the war in Sarajevo, Mizaldo is marked by bitterness, but includes a large dose of self-satire.

Filipovi co-wrote and co-directed it in 1993. It was presented at the 1994 Berlin Film Festival and won first prize at the 1994 Mediterranean Festival in Rome.

Well-Tempered Corpses is a darkly humorous tale set in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. A quirky and audacious look at the pursuit of the tenuous “Bosnian Dream,” the film skewers the cynicism and idiosyncrasies of a recovering society while weaving together stories of several very different people and relationships.

It was presented at the 2005 Cairo International Film Festival, the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival and the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival.

Filipovi studied direction at FAMU (Faculty of Film and Television, Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. His first film, Holiday in Sarajevo (1991), one of the last Yugoslavian films, enjoyed success with the public and won a number of prizes at international festivals.

He is professor of directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Sarajevo and Tuzla.

Tickets will be sold at the door and are $5 for Mizaldo, which will be shown at 6 p.m., and $7 for Well-Tempered Corpses, at 8:30 p.m. Both films will have English subtitles. Foster High School is located in Tukwila.

For more information, visit sarajka.googlepages.com or contact Elvin Misut at 206-778-4019 or amerikanac@gmail.com.