Sarajevo reviews
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Reviews‘Don’t Ask Me If I Killed’ review: Ukranian filmmaker-turned-soldier Helena Maksyom presents an intimate view of conflict
Maksyom’s intesely personal documentary, filmed over three years, recently received a special mention at Sarajevo
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Reviews‘Skateboarding Is Not For Girls’ review: Dina Duma’s family drama challenges patriarchal injustice with a light touch
Charming Tribeca prizewinner makes its European premiere at Sarajevo
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Reviews‘Bear With Me’ review: Compelling documentary celebrates a retired circus trainer and her beloved animal
Martin Genovski’s Sarajevo premiere has been constructed with care and a good dose of humour
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Reviews‘The Balkan Cowboy’ review: Poignant documentary pays quirky tribute to filmmaker Hari Dzekson
Dublin-based visual artist Dragana Jurisic brings a personal touch to her Sarajevo title
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Reviews‘17’ review: Newcomer Eva Kostic impresses in intense sexual assault drama
Kosara Mitic’s feature debut screens in Sarajevo competition after Berlin premiere
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Reviews‘Everything That’s Wrong With You’ review: Two strangers connect online in Ursa Menart’s perceptive comedy-drama
Anusa Kodelja and Klara Kuk highlight this Sarajevo competition title about grief and friendship
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Reviews‘Our Time Will Come’ review: Sarajevo documentary winner is study of interracial love in Vienna
Ivette Löcker follows an Austrian woman and a Gambian man as they navigate their relationship
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Reviews‘9-Month Contract’ review: Powerful documentary explores Georgia’s exploitative surrogacy industry
Director Ketevan Vashagashvili sensitively follows a single mother through her third surrogate pregnancy
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Reviews‘Phantoms Of July’ review: Past and present collide in breezy absurdist German comedy drama
Julian Radlmaier’s latest plays Sarajevo after premiering in Locarno
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Reviews’North South Man Woman’ review: North Korean women seek South Korean husbands in illuminating documentary
Morten Traavik and Sun Kim’s clear-eyed film follows the highs and lows of love across the cultural divide
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Reviews‘God Will Not Help’ review: Croatian filmmaker Hana Jusic’s intense second feature revels in its mysteries
This slow-burn drama stars Manuela Martelli as an enigmatic stranger
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Reviews‘White Snail’ review: Delicate Belarusian debut narrative feature focuses on two lonely souls
Filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter work with non-professional cast in a story about a model and a morgue worker
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Reviews‘Dwelling Among The Gods’: Sarajevo Review
Vuk Rsumovic follows up Venice Critics Week winner ’No One’s Child’ with this sober Serbia-set refugee drama
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Reviews‘Mother Mara’: Sarajevo Review
Serbia’s Mirjana Karanovic directs and stars as a woman redefining herself after the death of her only son
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Reviews‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review
Maja Novakovic’s award-winning documentary is an enigmatic portrait of life in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Reviews‘Dad’s Lullaby’: Sarajevo Review
The impact of the war in Ukraine is felt through the experiences of a single family in this debut documentary
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Reviews‘Holy Electricity’: Sarajevo Review
Colourful, uneven Georgian debut explores the city of Tbilisi through the exploits of two door-to-door salesmen
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Reviews‘Family Therapy’: Sarajevo Review
A glass house in a Slovenian forest plays host to Sonia Prosenc’s satire of the nouveau riche
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Reviews‘What’s To Be Done’: Sarajevo Review
Godan Devic continues his work documenting Croatia’s difficult transition to capitalism through the bankruptcy of a rolling stock company
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Reviews‘Europa’: Sarajevo Review
Slow-burn rural thriller starring Lilith Stangenberg is set in an Albania grappling with modernisation