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News
Palestinian director Elia Suleiman to receive Sarajevo 2024 honorary award
Festival will present director with honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award and show a retrospective of his films.
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Features
Jasmila Žbanić explains why she moved into showrunning for Venice series ‘I Know Your Soul’
Žbanić wrote the story as a feature script several years ago but it was rejected by the Bosnian Film Fund.
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Charlie Kaufman urges filmmakers to work outside the US studio system in Sarajevo masterclass
Kaufman was in town as a filmmaker amid the WGA and SAG-Aftra strrikes.
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Reviews
‘Excursion’: Sarajevo Review
Sensitive feature debut follows the fall-out from a Bosnian teenager’s compulsive lies
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Features
How a “curated approach” to industry activities has made Sarajevo a festival of discovery
Head of industry Masa Markovic reflects on this year’s CineLink Industry Days programme.
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Sarajevo director Jovan Marjanovic: “This is the meeting place for Southeastern European cinema”
Festival director reflects on this year’s line-up and how Sarajevo’s identity was forged during the Bosnian War.
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Sarajevo’s Kinoscope strand selects ‘Disco Boy’, ‘The Vanishing Soldier’
18 films across three Kinoscope sections.
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U2 doc ‘Kiss The Future’ to open Sarajevo Film Festival 2023
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck produced the film.
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Memento International boards ‘Joy’ director Sudabeh Mortezai’s ‘Europa’ ahead of Sarajevo launch (exclusive)
The film’s backers include Film4 and Mike Goodridge’s Good Chaos.
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Sarajevo Film Festival unveils competition programme with 10 world premieres including ‘Europa’
Submissions to the competition sections up 23% for this year’s festival.
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Reviews
‘Riders’: Sarajevo Review
Filmmaker Dominik Mencej announces himself as a significant new talent with this achingly tender road movie
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‘A Ballad’: Sarajevo Review
A mother’s struggles to regain custody of her daughter form the core of Aida Begic’s uneven drama
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Features
‘A Ballad’ director Aida Begić on the freedom of low budget shoots and her ‘specific’ way of working with actors
Bosnian director’s latest to premiere in hometown at Sarajevo Film Festival.
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Sarajevo unveils line-up for conference programme CineLink Talks
Includes keynote with Good Chaos founder Mike Goodridge.
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Sebastian Meise appointed jury president of 28th Sarajevo Film Festival
Meise joined by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Milan Maric, Katriel Schory.
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Reviews
’Shooting For Mirza’: Sarajevo Review
A son traces the life of his basketball legend father in this bio-doc of Mirza Delibasic
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‘Disturbed Earth’: Sarajevo Review
A reflection on the Srebrenica massacre and its reverberations today in the semi-abandoned town
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Sarajevo’s CineLink industry strand sets extra September dates (exclusive)
The festival will run three individual days from mid-September.
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U2 singer Bono appears as surprise guest at Sarajevo Film Festival
The Irish music star presented a screening of Wim Wenders’ ‘The Million Dollar Hotel’.
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Reviews
‘Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair’: Sarajevo Review
Sarajevo opens with a comedy-drama by Danis Tanovic