Sarajevo’s CineLink reveals 2025 industry winners with €250,000 of prizes
‘Places Half Empty’, ‘Stone Over Stone’, ‘Pogana’ all take prizes.
Willem Dafoe talks Martin Scorsese, Robert Eggers, Kathryn Bigelow collaborations
Dafoe discussed being crucified and buried in his sold-out Sarajevo masterclass.
AI “tsunami” poses threat to creators’ rights, say copyright experts
“AI content will flood the commercial market and will suck out a lot of money.”
Ilya Khrzhanovsky updates on ‘DAU’ films, talks Gaza conflict, Mubi funding criticism
“I love Israel, but what is happening on the West Bank and in Gaza is terrible.”
Festival directors discuss imperative to show “uncomfortable films”
“Part of our role is to find and back voices that sometimes make people uncomfortable,” said Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle.
Filmmakers can learn from Christian content success, notes Sarajevo panel
“We may not like that kind of film but they are making money.”
Ray Winstone calls for UK industry to make more culturally British films
“The French do it, the Germans do it – that’s the way it should be, that’s where good filmmakers come from.”
Ji.hlava awards Docu Talents projects in Sarajevo, selects 18 Emerging Producers
One producer is from Ethiopia, guest country of the programme.
Paolo Sorrentino addresses “genocide” in Gaza: “No film can prevent these things”
Sorrentino says he prefers Disney films to violent films; talks working with cinematographers.
‘Fantasy’: first trailer for Kukla’s Locarno, Sarajevo gender exploration title
EXCLUSIVE: Totem Films is handling international sales on the film.
‘Yugo Florida’: first trailer for Sarajevo main competition title
EXCLUSIVE: Tagic’s feature debut follows a man whose life is turned upside down by his estranged father’s terminal illness.
Willem Dafoe to receive Sarajevo honorary award; festival selects Open Air programme
‘Sentimental Value’, ‘Brides’ among Open Air programme.
‘DAU’ director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy to receive Sarajevo Film Festival tribute
Khrzhanovskiy is artistic director of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv.
‘Selection’, about the exploitation of teenage football players, among projects pitched at Slano Film Days
Croatian director Bruno Anković’s father was a famous professional footballer.
“They come to talk about film”: why the arthouse A-list is drawn to Slano Film Days
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Pawel Pawlikowski, Michel Franco, Jasmila Zbanvic, Lili Horvat and Ruben Ostlund are all in town.
Hana Jušić, director of Sarajevo title ‘God Will Not Help’, reveals her literary and musical inspirations
The Croatian director drew from the mood of both ’Wuthering Heights’ and ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’.
