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Award-Winning
Film & Video
Production

Lavah Media is a film production company based in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Arab Emirates. We produce feature films, documentaries, and television, bringing that same cinematic eye to commercial brands.

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Film is where we come from.
It is also how we shoot everything else, with patience, access and a cinematic eye.

Based in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Arab Emirates, we produce with national broadcasters and film centres across Europe, take our films to festivals, and bring the same crew to brands that want their story told properly.

Two basesBosnia and Herzegovina and the United Arab Emirates.

Europe-wideCo-productions in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the Balkans.

One crewThe same director, producer and eye, on a documentary in a mountain village and a brand shoot on a Dubai rooftop.

Three young women in white lie in a wooden boat on a green river, still from Somebody Missing

Our core

Film

Feature films, documentaries and television, from first idea to festival premiere and broadcast.

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For brands

Commercial

Commercials, brand films and social media content, everything a brand needs to be seen, shot like cinema.

Broadcasters, festivals & partners

Four girls in white sit apart in an empty old cinema hall, a still from Somebody Missing

Film production

Film

Stories from the Balkans, made for screens everywhere. Developed with directors we believe in, produced with national broadcasters and film centres, and premiered at festivals.

Feature & short film

Fiction

From script to premiere, co-produced across Europe and the Gulf.

Documentary

Real stories

Long-form and short documentaries built on access, patience and people who trust us.

Television

Broadcast

Programmes and series delivered for national broadcasters, from format to final master.

01Somebody MissingFeature documentary2026
02Ruins, The Last VillagersDocumentaryIn production
03House with HeartShort film2025
04Mia San MiaDocumentary2023
05True Love Is Never ForgottenShort film2024

A man sits alone on a wooden jetty by a lake, still from True Love Is Never Forgotten — True Love Is Never Forgotten

A grey-bearded man leans out of a window with a rusted grille, still from Ruins, The Last Villagers — Ruins, The Last Villagers

Three people in silhouette at a kitchen table against a window — Somebody Missing

A small grey teddy bear hangs on a string by a window — Somebody Missing

A woman with curly hair smiles at her phone in a car, still from True Love Is Never Forgotten — True Love Is Never Forgotten

An elderly woman stands by the wall of her old house, still from Ruins, The Last Villagers — Ruins, The Last Villagers

Co-productions & collaborations

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Croatia
Serbia
UAE

Festivals & awards, selected from 30+ festivals

Sarajevo Film FestivalOfficial Selection
BIHLAFFAward for Best Director
Prokuplje Film Festival ProFiFestAward for Best Documentary Film
Thilsri International Film FestivalAward for Best Documentary Film
New York Global Drama Film FestivalAward for Best Documentary Film
Annaba Film FestivalOfficial Selection
Greece International Film FestivalOfficial Selection
Mabig Film FestivalAward for Best Documentary Film

Made for the festival screen. Made for the brand feed.

Commercial production

Commercial

Everything a brand needs to be seen, from a single reel to a full campaign, shot by a film crew in Dubai and the Balkans.

01 · Food & beverage

Menus people want to taste

Photography and film for restaurants, bars and chefs: launches, signature dishes, menu shoots and the content that fills a feed all season.

Food photography
Menu films
Reels

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02 · Hospitality

Rooms, mornings, moments

Hotel and venue films that sell the feeling, not the floor plan: brand films, room tours, events and always-on social content.

Brand films
Event coverage
Social presence

03 · Lifestyle

Campaigns with a pulse

Campaign content for lifestyle, wellness and fashion brands, from concept to delivery, directed and produced for screens and social.

Commercials
Campaigns
Vertical video

CommercialsBrand filmsSocial media contentSocial media presencePhotographyEvent coverageInterviews & corporatePost-production

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About

Two countries,
one crew

Lavah Media was founded to carry stories between two places we call home. We work with the discipline of television and the appetite of independent film, and we bring both to every brand we shoot for.

Producer

BorislavBanjac

Founder of Lavah Media, producing feature films, documentaries, and commercial content across the Balkans and the Gulf. In collaboration with major national broadcasters and international brands, I bring the production strategy, scale, and cross-border reach required to take complex stories from concept to global distribution.

Director

SabahetDžafica

Award-winning Bosnian-German film director with an MA in Directing and a member of the Association of Film Workers of BiH. Known for a strong narrative voice and international co-productions, bridging European cinema and global audiences across fiction, documentary, and commercial media.

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