Debut features dominate this year’s competition lineup; Radu Jude, Radu Muntean among In Focus lineup.

Son Of Saul

Full lineups below

The competition lineup of the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (August 14 – 22) will include world premieres of two first features and the regional premieres of László Nemes’ Son of Saul and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier.

Debut features dominate the competition programme this year, with six out of the ten selected films competing for the Heart of Sarajevo Award first films.

Three films are from directors returning to the festival’s competition - Dalibor Matanić from Croatia, Corneliu Porumboiu from Romania, and Karl Markovics from Austria – and the lineup is rounded out with Tsangari from Greece.

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM 2015

WORLD PREMIERES

OUR EVERYDAY LIFE / NAŠA SVAKODNEVNA PRIČA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, 2015, 90 min, dir. Ines Tanović (first feature)

ENTANGLEMENT / DOLANMA
Turkey, 2015, 86 min, dir. Tunç Davut (first feature)

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES

BACK HOME / ACASĂ LA TATA
Romania, 2014, 91 min. dir. Andrei Cohn (first feature)

REGIONAL PREMIERES

CHEVALIER
Greece, 2015, 99 min. dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari

THE HIGH SUN / ZVIZDAN
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, 2015, 123 min. dir. Dalibor Matanić

MUSTANG
Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar, 2015, 94 min. dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven (first feature)

PANAMA
Serbia, 2015, 105 min. dir. Pavle Vučković (first feature)

SON OF SAUL / SAUL FIA
Hungary, 2015, 107 min. dir. László Nemes (first feature)

SUPERWORLD / SUPERWELT
Austria, 2015, 120 min. dir. Karl Markovics

THE TREASURE / COMOARA
Romania, France, 2015, 89 min. dir. Corneliu Porumboiu

Among this year’s In Focus lineup are Radu Jude’s Aferim! and Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below.

IN FOCUS 2015

AFERIM!
Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, 2015, 108 min. dir. Radu Jude

GOODNIGHT MOMMY  / ICH SEH, ICH SEH
Austria, 2014, Colour, 99 min. dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz

THE LESSON / UROK
Bulgaria, Greece, 2014, 107 min. dir. Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva

NO ONE`S CHILD / NIČIJE DETE
Serbia, Croatia, 2014, 97 min. dir. Vuk Ršumović

ONE FLOOR BELOW / UN ETAJ MAI JOS
Romania, France, Germany, Sweden, 2015, 93 min. dir. Radu Muntean

SIVAS
Turkey, Germany, 2014, 97 min. dir. Kaan Müjdeci

YOU CARRY ME / TI MENE NOSIŠ
Croatia, 2015, 155 min. dir. Ivona Juka

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