'Oskar Film', the exclusive distributer of films in the entity's cinemas, has said that the screening of 'Grbavica' "will not be financially profitable in cinemas that company covers.
The film is about the agony of women raped as part of ethnic cleansing which Serb forces carried out during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
The Oskar Film director, Vladimir Ljevar, has said that in Banja Luka, the major city in the Serb entity, 'a closed-door' premiere of the film was held and participants in the event concluded that the showing of the film in local cinemas would not attract enough number of viewers and would not cover its costs.
Ljevar also ascribed this to statements of Zbanic at the Berlin award-giving ceremony and to an atmosphere which the film's success created in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
"I am dreaming this," said 31-year-old Zbanic at the Gala award ceremony event in Berlin on 19 February.
"I would like to take the opportunity to remind us all of the fact that war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic still live undisturbed in Europe," she said at the Berlin ceremony.
A few days after the ceremony, Zbanic gave an interview to the Nezavisne Novine paper in Banja Luka, in which she said that "not all Serbs are Chetniks (Serb armed nationalists) or criminals. Mirjana Karanovic, who played the leading female role of a (Muslim) women raped in Sarajevo, is a Serb actress... She (Karanovic) has said that only those who identify themselves with criminals criticise the film before they see it."
Former UN special rapporteur for human rights Tadeusz Mazowietski, wrote in a report that about 12,000 rapes were committed during the war in Bosnia.