Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to the Bosnian mystery series Komar. After I Know Your Soul and The Hollow, Komar is now the third series on which BH Telecom and Beta Film are collaborating.

The thrilling eight-hour show joins Beta’s ever-growing slate of high-end shows from the Balkans, including Canneseries/Shanghai TV Festival winner Operation Sabre from Serbia, which recently aired on ARTE and was praised by the international press as “masterful political thriller” (Spiegel) and “a powerful and committed thriller” (Télérama).

Komar stands alongside Venice Film Festival TV entry I Know Your Soul by multi-awarded Jasmila Žbanić, the Bulgarian drama Shattered Bonds and the long-running Greek TV sensation The Beach, among many others.

Produced by BH Telecom (BH Content Lab) with SCCA/Pro.ba as the executive producer, the mystery crime series Komar (8x1h) follows Mersiha (Lejla Hakalovic). When her boyfriend Miki vanishes without a trace while travelling by bus through the Komar mountains, Mersiha and her best friend, Jasna, set out to search for him. Meanwhile, some of the travelers wake up on the bus and find it lost in the middle of nowhere, without a cellphone signal or any way to get back to civilization. As Mersiha and Jasna get sucked deeper into the mystery, it turns out that dark forces are trying to thwart their efforts…

Timur Makarevic is the showrunner; Vedran Rupic and Una Gunjak share directing credits. In the lead roles star Lejla Hakalovic, Pia Vrdoljak, and Igor Skvarica. Beta holds international distribution rights to the series.

Komar celebrated its world premiere a year ago at the 30th Sarajevo film Festival to great acclaim in their Avant Premiere section. Beta Film is also featured at the current edition of the festival with Senior Executive at Beta’s Kids & YA, Julia Schweiger, who is among the panelists of the Cinelink panel “From SKAM to SRAM: Youth Drama, Public Broadcasters, and the Power of Adaptation”.