The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival will world premiere All We Have Is Us in its Human Rights Day slot, the single annual berth the festival reserves for a title that carries a post-screening discussion with its directors and subjects. The edition runs 14 to 21 August.

Co-directed by Alina Juárez and Juan Francisco Donoso, the 79-minute Chilean production works across two extraction frontiers linked by the same buyer. In the Atacama Desert and in Serbia’s Jadar Valley, local opposition has formed around lithium projects tied to Rio Tinto, and the directors shot over five years on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Chilean strand follows Aymara journalist and land defender Leyla Noriega, with photographer and socio-environmental researcher Ramón Balcázar tracking what lithium has done to the regional economy. In Serbia the film sits with actor Bojana Novaković, who has campaigned publicly against the Jadar project and whose mother’s village lies inside the concession area, and with local beekeeper Vladan Jakovljević.

Festival programmers describe the film as a study of who holds the right to decide the future of a place, a question the green transition puts to every community sitting on a critical mineral deposit. In announcing the selection, the festival flagged the title as one of the documentaries likely to define the coming edition.