The 29th Sarajevo Film Festival is just around the corner, and 49 films are vying for the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo awards.
The festival’s competition sections, spanning feature films, documentaries, short films, and student productions, will showcase a total of 22 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 22 regional premieres, and 3 national premieres.
In the realm of documentary films, Rada Šešić, the programmer of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film, has handpicked 20 outstanding titles. This selection boasts nine world premieres, one international premiere, seven regional premieres, and three premieres from Bosnia and Herzegovina. These films will vie for prestigious awards, including the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film, the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film, the Human Rights Award, and the Special Jury Prize.
The Sarajevo Film Festival embraces diversity and inclusivity, opening its competition programme to films and filmmakers from various countries, including Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Heart of Sarajevo 2023 Documentary Competition
- A Day, 365 Hours / Bir Gün, 365 Saat – dir. Eylem Kaftan (Turkey, Croatia)
- Body / Telo – dir. Petra Seliškar (Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia)
- Bottlemen / Flašaroši – dir. Nemanja Vojinović (Serbia, Slovenia)
- Fairy Garden / Fanni Kertje – dir. Gergő Somogyvári (Hungary, Romania, Croatia)
- Fran and Verka; or a Usual Day in an Abandoned Village – dir. Sovran Nrecaj (Kosovo)
- Hug / Objem – dir. Miroslav Mandić (Slovenia, Croatia)
- Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer / Rekviemi Zafkhulis Sitskhian Dgheebs – dir. Giorgi Parkosadze (Georgia, Greece)
- Silence of Reason / Šutnja Razuma – dir. Kumjana Novakova (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia)
- What’s to Be Done? / Što da se radi? – dir. Goran Dević (Croatia)
- My Muslim Husband / Soțul Meu Musulman – dir. Daniel Ioan Bărnuti, Alexandra Lizeta Bărnuți (Romania)
- De Facto – dir. Selma Doborac (Austria, Germany)
- Deserters / Dezerteri – dir. Damir Markovina (Croatia)
- Horror Vacui – dir. Boris Poljak (Croatia)
- Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels – dir. Mila Turajlić (Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Qatar)
- One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas / Алоє, Фікус, Авокадо І 6 Драцен – dir. Marta Smerechynska (Ukraine, France)
- Self-Portrait Along the Borderline / ავტოპორტრეტი ზღვარზე – dir. Anna Dziapshipa (Georgia)
- Valerija – dir. Sara Jurinčić (Croatia)
- Between Revolutions / Între Revoluții – dir. Vlad Petri (Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran)
- Hope Hotel Phantom – dir. Bojan Stojčić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- We Will Not Fade Away / My Ne Zgasnemo – dir. Alisa Kovalenko (Ukraine, France, Poland, United States)
