Sarajevo Film Festival 2024

Global North

«It’s not about becoming bigger; it’s about creating connections»

BIFED: Ahead of its 11th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Coordinator Ethem Özgüven and Festival Director Petra Holzer on the festival’s origins, mission, and the challenges and opportunities ecological documentary filmmakers face today.

Cinema and the post-truth world

REALITY: Cinema's unique role in investigating reality, fiction, AI-driven propaganda, and how imagination shapes our perceptions in the post-truth world.

Beyond orientalist myths

ISLAM: Samia Rahman's book confronts the myths about Muslim women, revealing their complex realities and voices, often overshadowed by Western narratives and stereotypes.

Pedalling through pain

LOVE: Love, illness, and resilience on a transformative cycling journey through Italy.

Life without papers

MODERNITY: Revealing the hidden world of the evaporated.

Jazz hands

GEOPOLITICS: How jazz music played a role in political manoeuvres during the Cold War.

An anti-anti-racism

RACISM: A neo-conservative movement has made its virtue to 'expose' the political agenda of critical race theory.

Facing absolute finality

DEATH: A nostalgic love letter for the irreversible passing of time by one of the key figures in American independent documentary.

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ENVIRONMENT: Fifty years after capturing America’s consumerist landscape, photographers revisit their work, offering a reflective documentary on environmental crises and unfulfilled promises.

Freedom forever

ANARCHY: Leonardo Caffo’s argument for an anarchic society suggests that real freedom comes from rejecting old systems and embracing autonomy, not from restoring the state.

NATO vs. nature

MILITARISM: A nuclear family's high-tech dissolution.

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