Sarajevo Film Festival
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How can one find the power to forgive?
TRADITION: An age old Albanian tribal code forces a bereaved family to reconcile with their daughter’s murderer.
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Sarajevo Film Festival adds music docs, human rights day info to 2021 programme
The 27th Sarajevo Film Festival continues adding to their 2031 programme. Now, new music docs and Human Rights Day information has been released for the festival running 12 – 20 August, 2021. As part of its Summer Screen Programme, Sarejavo Film Festival brings six films on music, art, and culture. The six films include Heart…
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Sarajevo Film Festival sets documentary competition for 27th edition
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…
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16 films to compete for Heart of Sarajevo Award for documentary film
Of the 47 total films competing for the 2021 Sarajevo Film Festival Heart of Sarajevo Award in their respective sections, 16 will be documentaries. The Best Documentary award joins Feature, Short, and Student Film as the four categories for the Heart of Sarajevo. The documentary selections have been curated by #Rada Šešić#, selector of the…
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Sarajevo Film Festival tributes Wim Wenders with 27th Heart of Sarajevo Award
The 27th Sarajevo Film Festival, 13 – 20 August 2021, tributes #Wim Wenders# with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award and honoured with a retrospective of his selected works in the Festival’s «Tribute to» Programme. As part of the tribute, Wenders will hold a Masterclass, and the Festival will also organise a special screening of…
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The 4 prominent Adriatic region events to launch joint online film festival
A first online festival involving four leading national film festivals of the same speaking area will take place from 9 – 17 April, at the initiative of the Sarajevo Film Festival: Joining Sarajevo Film Festival (BiH) will be Zagreb Film Festival (Croatia), Belgrade Film Festival (Serbia) and Herceg Novi Film Festival (Montenegro)and will be held…
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique announces 5 selected 2021 projects
The 11th edition of Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the development platform of the Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center, has announced the five projects for 2021. Each selected project will go through group and individual meetings with mentors prior to being presented at Sarajevo Film Festival’s the CineLink Industry Days in August. The projects,…
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Landscapes of Resistance
TRAUMA: An unorthodox documentary on the exceptional journey of one of Serbia's first female partisans, who helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz.
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Radiograph of a Family
FAMILY: The daughter of a secular father and a devout mother tells the story reflective of the political events leading to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.