Sarajevo Film Festival
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Electing Ms Santa
POLITICS: Raisa Răzmeriță's debut documentary follows Elena, a Moldovan social activist known locally as Santa, as she moves from solving her village's problems to openly challenging its entrenched male leadership.
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Sarajevo CineLink 2026: Politics and personal lives collide in new documentaries
SARAJEVO FF: CineLink handed its top prizes to documentaries built around the collision of politics and private life, from a Gaza-shadowed friendship in Bulgaria to a family fractured by Viktor Orbán's Hungary.
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Ora et Labora takes Ji.hlava’s Docu Talent Award in Sarajevo
The Docu Talent Award, top prize at Ji.hlava’s Docu Talents from the East showcase, has gone to Ora et Labora (Pray and Work), a Luxembourg-Slovak co-production directed by Dzhovani Gospodinov and produced by Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu. The seven finalists were revealed Sunday night in Sarajevo as part of CineLink Industry Days, with projects…
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique opens 2026 call for advanced-edit documentary projects
Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center have opened applications for the 16th edition of Docu Rough Cut Boutique, a platform supporting documentary projects in the advanced phase of editing. The programme selects five projects from South-East Europe and the Caucasus for a tailored training process built around editorial development and industry positioning. The 2026…
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Adriatic Film & TV Awards announce inaugural winners in Tivat
Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte! (Croatia/Italy/Slovenia) led the film winners, taking Best Film, while Bezinović also received Best Director and Best Screenplay. Jara Sofija Ostan won Best Leading Actress for Kaj ti je deklica (directed by Urška Djukić), which also secured Best Debut Film. Leon Lučev was named Best Leading Actor for The Working Class…
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Militantropos
UKRAINE: From mass graves to choral singing, images traverse Ukraine’s landscapes, questioning identity while war normalises behaviours unimaginable.
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Cuba & Alaska
UKRAINE: Laughing in the face of death, the two heroines of journalist-turned-filmmaker Yegor Troyanovsky's debut documentary Cuba & Alaska pitch viewers into the agony and ecstasy of Ukraine's frontlines.
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Coexistence, My Ass!
PEACE: Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
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Docu Talent Awards 2025 Spotlight Georgia, Armenia-Switzerland, and Czech Republic
Three projects exploring themes of displacement, surreal imagery, and contested histories took top honours at this year’s Docu Talents from the East Awards, presented during CineLink Industry Days at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The main Docu Talent Award went to A Song Without Home, directed by Georgian filmmaker Rati Tsiteladze and produced by Olga Slusareva.…