Sarajevo reviews
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‘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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‘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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‘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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’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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘Europa’: Sarajevo Review
Slow-burn rural thriller starring Lilith Stangenberg is set in an Albania grappling with modernisation
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‘Bottlemen’: Sarajevo Review
Roma men scrabble to make a living on a huge rubbish dump near Belgrade in this empathetic Serbian documentary
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‘Medium’: Sarajevo Review
A teenage girl explores the first flushes of love against the backdrop of a blazing Athens summer
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‘Guardians Of The Formula’: Sarajevo Review
A 1950s Belgrade reactor leak presents opportunities for medical experimentation in this semi-fictionalised drama
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‘Excursion’: Sarajevo Review
Sensitive feature debut follows the fall-out from a Bosnian teenager’s compulsive lies
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‘Another Spring’: Sarajevo Review
Mladen Kovacevic’s documentary chronicling Yugoslavia’s 1972 smallpox outbreak has modern-day parallels
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‘The Chalice — Of Sons And Daughters’: Sarajevo Review
The intricacy of marriage rituals within Romania’s Roma communities are chronicled in this observational documentary