16 films have been announced making up the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival Documentary Competition. The festival, which runs 13 – 20 August, will feature 8 world premieres, 1 European, 6 regional and 1 Bosnian-Herzegovinian premieres. The 16 films will also compete for three awards: Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film, Human Rights Prize, and Special Jury Award
- Bosnian Broadway (dir. Jasmina Beširević) – Croatia
- Disturbed Earth (dir. Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi) – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, North Macedonia
- Divas (dir. Máté Kőrösi) – Hungary
- Every Sunday (dir. Keti Papadema) – Cyprus
- Horizon (dir. Tanja Deman) – Croatia
- The Same Dream (dir. Vlad Petri) – Romania
- When We Were Them (dir. Danis Tanović, Damir Šagolj) – Bosnia and Herzegovina
- ŽŽŽ (Journal About Želimir Žilnik) (dir. Janko Baljak) – Serbia
- Sunny (dir Keti Machavariani) – Georgia
- Factory to the Workers (dir. Srđan Kovačević) – Croatia
- Les Enfants Terrible (dir. Ahmet Necdet Çupur) – Turkey, France, Germany
- Looking For Horses (dir. Stefan Pavlović) – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, France
- Recipe For Hate (dir. Filip Čolović) – Serbia
- Reconciliation (dir. Marija Zidar) – Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo
- Soldat Ahmet (dir. Jannis Lenz) – Austria
- Landscape of Resistance (dir. Marta Popivoda) – Serbia, France, Germany
