26thSFF magazine

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL

14-21 AUGUST 2020

SARAJEVO UNESCO CITY OF FILM Sarajevo was designated a UNESCO City of Film in October 2019. The permanent title of UNESCO City of Film has been awarded in recognition of Sarajevo’s achievements in the creative field of film as well as Sarajevo’s commitment to place film and creativity at the heart of its future urban development strategies.

“We took a leading role and made a medium-term action plan in our joint effort to have our capital city included on the eminent list of UNESCO’s Creative Cities. The UNESCO City of Film title will enhance Sarajevo’s positive image

in the world, bring development and direct benefits to our city and citizens” said Abdulah Skaka, Mayor of the City of Sarajevo.

The city’s action plan at the local level is aimed at developing film and TV production in Sarajevo, improving access to film culture and film enjoyment as well as at developing public spaces and infrastructure to boost cross-cutting projects in creative industries. At the international level, Sarajevo will actively collaborate with other creative cities and continue to grow as a meeting place of regional and international film industry.

“We are pleased that Sarajevo is on the list of UNESCO’s Creative Cities. This is a recognition of Sarajevo’s rich film tradition and heritage, successful film festivals and amazing achievements of our world-class filmmakers”, said Mirsad Purivatra, Sarajevo Film Festival Director.

“The UNESCO City of Film status is just a beginning of what Sarajevo can become in the future. With a close cooperation and support of all stakeholders in the city, we anticipate expansion of film and TV production in Sarajevo, bringing on new opportunities for professional

training and recruitment of young people in the film industry and other creative fields” added Mr. Purivatra.

The permanent title of UNESCO City of Film also includes membership to UNESCO Creative Cities Network and UNESCO Cities of Film Subnetwork, both aspiring to develop international cooperation among cities in accordance with UNESCO’s global mission of sustainable urban development and cultural diversity.

“We took a leading role and made a medium-term action plan in our joint effort to have our capital city included on the eminent list of UNESCO’s Creative Cities. The UNESCO City of Film title will enhance Sarajevo’s positive image in the world, bring development and direct benefits to our city and citizens” said Abdulah Skaka, Mayor of the City of Sarajevo.

FESTIVAL NEWS The renowned French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, an Academy Award winner for his acclaimed film THE ARTIST, is back at the Sarajevo Film Festival!

After presenting his film THE SEARCH at the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2014, Hazanavicius is returning as the President of the Competition Programme – Feature Film Jury of the 26th edition of the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival.

Michel Hazanavicius was born in 1967 in Paris, France. He attended art school and moved on to work as a director for commercials and television projects.

After his first short film ECHEC AU CAPITAL and several collaborations on scripts, in 1999 he shot his first feature, MES AMIS. In 2006, he directed his second feature OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES and in 2009 OSS 17: LOST IN RIO. In 2011 he made THE ARTIST, a blackand-white silent film, starring Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin, which won five Oscars in 2012, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Dujardin, while Bejo was an Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actress. THE ARTIST was also awarded with 3 Golden Globes Awards, 7 BAFTA Awards, the Best Actor’s Award for Dujardin at Cannes in 2011, where the film was world premiered, and many other awards.

After THE ARTIST, in 2012 Hazanavicius directed a segment of the sketch film, THE PLAYERS, in 2014 THE SEARCH - in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and in 2017 REDOUBTABLE, which was also in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. His latest film is THE LOST PRINCE, his 7th feature film, starring Bérénice Bejo and Omar Sy.

MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

JURY PRESIDENT OF THE 26TH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL

A NEW FILM BY ROMANIAN DIRECTOR CRISTI PUIU IS COPRODUCED WITH ’’PRODUKCIJA SARAJEVO 2006’’ After the film SIERANEVADA in 2016, which was in the official selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, Sarajevobased production house ‘’Produkcija Sarajevo 2006’’ from Bosnia and Herzegovina and its producer Mirsad Purivatra joined forces again with famous Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu in his new film MALMKROG. The film MALMKROG has been selected in the new competition section of the Berlinale, Encounters, and the world premiere of this film will officially open the Encounters section at the 70th Berlinale. The goal of this section is to support new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms in the official programme.

“As a result of passionate research, the 15 titles chosen for Encounters present the vitality of cinema in all of its forms.

Each film presents a different way of interpreting the cinematic story: autobiographical, intimate, political, social, philosophical, epic, surreal. The films take the challenge of shaping the world rather than reproducing it,” commented Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of the Berlinale.

“Cristi Puiu’s new work will open this kaleidoscopic gallery. A journey through time and thought, MALMKROG

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL HAS BEEN GRANTED SUPPORT

BY UNESCO TO EXECUTE A STUDY ON ITS IMPACT ON BIH The Sarajevo Film Festival has been granted support by the UNESCO to execute a study on its cultural, economic and social impact on Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The study will be carried out in cooperation with Olsberg SPI, a leading international consultancy for creative industries that has been measuring the impact of the Sarajevo Film Festival since 2015, which allows for deep longitudinal analysis in line with UNESCO guidelines for assessing festival impacts.

Mr. Jovan Marjanovic, Head of Industry at the Festival says: ‘’This study comes at the right time. Now that the city of Sarajevo has been designated the status of a UNESCO City of Film and the Sarajevo Canton has announced new financial incentives for film and TV production, we hope that this study will provide an expert insight into how creative industries policies of the City and the Canton can be reshaped to reinvigorate the whole film and TV sector in Sarajevo.’’

UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity is a means to support the implementation of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, by fostering the emergence of a dynamic cultural sector in developing countries.

The study is to be presented at the upcoming edition of the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival.

is a major work, a tour de force of words and mise en scène, a fresco that fascinates with precision and inventiveness’’, stated the Berlinale press release.

A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award of the Encounters section.

MALMKROG is a coproduction between Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the film was supported by the Ministry of

Culture and Sport of the Sarajevo Canton. The screenplay was written by Cristi Puiu, adapting text by Vladimir Solovyov. It stars Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Agathe Bosch, Diana Sakalauskaité, Marina Palii, Ugo Broussot and István Téglás.

Cristi Puiu is a writer and a director, known for the award-winning films: THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (2005), AURORA (2010), and SIERANEVADA (2016).

One of the most significant filmmakers today is well known to the Sarajevo Film Festival audience: in 2010 Puiu chaired the feature film competition jury of the Sarajevo Film Festival and in 2013 Puiu was an honoree of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Tribute to programme. Puiu was a special guest at the 2019 Sarajevo Film Festival.

Sarajevo Film Festival proudly congratulates the films developed and promoted through the CineLink Industry Days at the 70th Berlinale

MARE by Andrea Štaka

(Switzerland / Croatia);World premiere; CineLink Co-Production Market in 2016

PARI by Siamak Etemadi

(Greece / France / Netherlands / Bulgaria); World premiere / Debut film CineLink Co-Production Market in 2014

BEST ACTOR OF THE 2019 SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL AMONG 2020 EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS Levan Gelbakhiani from Georgia, winner of the Heart of Sarajevo Award for best actor at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival (2019), is one of the ten most promising up-and-coming actors and actresses from Europe, who have been selected as 2020 EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS to participate in special events at the 70th Berlinale.

Gelbakhiani is awarded for his debut film AND THEN WE DANCED by Levan Akin.

“At only 21-years-old, he is already a master of physical elegance and psychological sensitivity” - EFP (European Film Promotion).

NEW CINEPLEXX CINEMA IN SARAJEVO AS ONE MORE VENUE FOR THE SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL

FOCUS GRANDMA – A NEW FILM BY BOSNIAN DIRECTOR PJER ZALICA

Cineplexx International will open a new cinema in Sarajevo in summer 2020, which is going to be a new location for the Sarajevo Film Festival.

“We are looking forward to our opening. Together with our partner Hotel Europe Group and the generous support of the Sarajevo Film Festival we will build a cinema not only for an outstanding cinematic experience but also a place to gather more often with friends and family”, said Christof Papousek, Managing Partner and CFO of Cineplexx/Constantin-Film Group of Companies.

Cineplexx in Sarajevo will have eight cinema halls with a total capacity of more than 1,000 seats. Visitors will have the possibility to experience state-of-the-art cinema projection technology showing national and international movies in a modern and impressive atmosphere while enjoying high service standards of Cineplexx.

CINELINK DRAMA TO INTRODUCE A NEW CASH DEVELOPMENT AWARD The Sarajevo Film Festival is honoured to announce a new development award for high-end drama series projects presented at CineLink Drama strand €15,000 in cash, sponsored by Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC).

Bosnian director Pjer Zalica has made a new film under the working title FOCUS GRANDMA, which is shot in Sarajevo. Cast members of the film, based on Pjer Zalica’s original screenplay, include Jasna Zalica, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Alma Prica, Jadranka Djokic, Vedrana Seksan, Admir Glamocak, Dzenita Imamovic Omerovic, Branislav Popovic, Izudin Bajrovic and Dino Sarija.

The film crew, among others, comprises director of photography Almir Djikoli, location sound engeneer Predrag Doder, makeup artist Lamija Hadzihasanovic Homorac, costume designer Sanja Dzeba and set designer Sanda Popovac.

The Southeast European platform for drama series, CineLink Drama, was established in 2016. Its aim is to showcase promising new projects and create a space where film professionals, leading European and regional TV broadcasters, VoD and SVoD providers and other distributors can come together and assist in fostering high quality TV content based on scripts from Southeast Europe. Starting this year, the award for best drama series in development will carry the name of Croatian Audiovisual Centre Drama Award, aiming at fostering the development of drama series as well as coproductions with Croatia. The best project, based on the quality of project materials, a pitching session and ‘one-on-one’ meetings, will be selected by an independent jury consisting of three film professionals chosen by the CineLink team.

FOCUS GRANDMA is a black comedy about a family that is falling apart next to the death-bed of their matriarch, in the hills above Sarajevo, unsuspecting of dangers that lie ahead of them as the city is living through its last days of peace.

Producers of the film, as part of their joint Sarajevo City of Film for Global Screen (SCF GS) initiative, are Sarajevo-based Obala Art Centar and Turkey’s national public broadcaster TRT. The SCF GS is a production fund that supports films by directors from Eastern Europe who previously showcased their work and were awarded at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

CINELINK INDUSTRY DAYS TO STRENGTHEN ITS DOCUMENTARY FOCUS BY INTRODUCING A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH DOCUMENTARY CAMPUS The Sarajevo Film Festival has identified filmmakers’ need for a stronger support of creative documentary industry in Southeast Europe. The shared ambition of both Documentary Campus and CineLink Industry Days is to stimulate co-production, offer new insights into digital possibilities of tomorrow and empower film professionals in the region to navigate the changing media landscape successfully. This part-

nership aims to create new networking possibilities for the exchange of knowledge and set new trends. Documentary Campus will curate a two-day event dedicated to documentary filmmaking in the post-broadcast era at the conference part of the industry programme – CineLink Talks and a host Documentary Campus Masterschool Workshop in Sarajevo.

SARAJEVO PORTRAITS 2019

BY BRIGITTE LACOMBE Isabelle Huppert

In recognition of her exceptional contribution to the art of film, the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival honored the legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award. During the 25th edition of the Festival, Huppert held a masterclass and the 2019 Festival screened her latest film FRANKIE by American director Ira Sachs.

Winner of numerous awards, including BAFTA Awards, two Venice Film Festival Best Actress Awards and Special Jury Lion d’Or, two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards and many others, Huppert is an Officer of the National Order of Merit of the Legion of Honour, and an Officer of the National Order of Merit and Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. She was the President of the Jury at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

FESTIVAL IN BRIEF The Sarajevo Film Festival was launched in 1995, towards the end of the four-year siege of Sarajevo. Initiated by the Obala Art Centar, the Festival started with the aim to help reconstruct civil society and retain the cosmopolitan spirit of the city.

25 years later, it is a trailblazing international film festival with a special focus on the region of Southeast Europe, dedicated to exposing the region’s talent and bringing the best of European cinema to film-hungry audiences in Sarajevo.

The Festival has 17 sections including 5 that are competitive, taking place in 13 venues and on 15 screens: Competitions – Feature, Short, Documentary & Student Film

Focusing on films by first and secondtime directors, the Festival’s competition sections feature a significant number of world and international premieres.

The films compete for the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo awards and more than €40,000 in cash prizes. The Festival’s signatory competition sections provide maximum exposure to featured authors, honouring them with Gala Screenings, Red Carpet and Press events.

In Focus

The section presents the best films produced in Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus in the preceding year, featuring productions that have seen success at prestigious film festivals worldwide (focusing on titles that premiered at the Berlinale, Cannes or Locarno).

Avant Premiere

The programme is focused on the screening of television dramas which are competing for Audience award. Strong commercial potential of our regional drama series and the fact that they will be distributed in the autumn/winter season is what links the titles which are shown in this programme.

Open Air

The Open Air section boasts the Festival’s largest venue – the recently refurbished Raiffeisen Open Air Cinema, where 3,300 festivalgoers enjoy screenings of up to eight leading art-house, European and international feature films.

The venue offers the unforgettable ex-

perience of watching films under the stars on the biggest screen in the region at top projection quality.

Tribute to

The section hosts and presents retrospectives of the world’s most prominent filmmakers and includes Q&A sessions, a masterclass and special events.

Kinoscope

Kinoscope presents up to 20 inspiring films directed by well-established and up-and-coming filmmakers. The section brings to Sarajevo narrative and documentary films from around the world (excluding Southeast Europe and the South Caucasus).

Dealing with the Past

Dealing with the Past aims to encourage dialogue about unresolved issues stemming from the 1990s conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, through a programme that combines screenings of relevant films, Q&A sessions and related case studies. The Festival seeks to encourage public involvement in order to increase understanding and encourage acknowledgement and tolerance of differences, especially in younger generations.

European Shorts

This programme is focused on presenting best short films of the most talented young filmmakers from around Europe.

In addition, selected films in the European Shorts and Competition Programme - Short Film qualify for a European Film Academy and Oscar® candidacy for nomination in the short film category.

Summer Screen

Presented under the starry skies, the Summer Screen section offers a selection of narrative and documentary films from around the world that consider current musical or pop culture themes.

MiniArena / Children’s & TeenArena Sections

With the aim to attract young audiences and educate future generations of film lovers, the Festival introduced special sections that combine age–appropriate films with various engaging and educational activities. The sections include: MiniArena (for children between the ages of 4 to 6), Children’s (ages from 6 to 13) and TeenArena (ages from 13 to 18).

SFF Partner Presents

Through its partnership with the Doha Film Institute, the Festival brings to Sarajevo a selection of the films made in the preceding year by Arab filmmakers. This part-

nership provides industry exchange and strengthens connections between Arab and European cinema. The collaboration will mark its seventh anniversary in 2020.

Human Rights Day

This section focuses on a variety of topics which inspire panel participants, the audience and the media to focus on and discuss pressing problems faced by individuals and communities around the world.

BH Film

Conceived as a ‘window to the world’ for local filmmakers, this national cinema section is organized in collaboration with the Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and provides an overview of all films produced in the country in the preceding year.

Festivals industry and training programmes include CineLink Industry Days and Talents Sarajevo.

CineLink Industry Days

Shaping the future of the film business in Southeast Europe Over the 18 years since its launch, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section has become a major hub for Southeast European film professionals, and has played a crucial role in the expansion of cinematic co-production in the region.

It has also become a key destination for professionals from across Europe who are in search of talent and co-production possibilities, or who simply wish to obtain in-depth knowledge about this dynamic region’s business development.

The Festival’s industry offering attracts almost 1,200 professionals to its annual event in late August and includes activities for people from all spheres of the business through its interlinked CineLink Industry Days sections: • CineLink Co-Production Market • CineLink Work-in-Progress • CineLink Drama • Docu Rough Cut Boutique • True Stories Market • Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch • Avant Premieres • CineLink Talks Additional activities are organized in cooperation with partners’ organizations: • Docu Talents from the East/ Ji.hlava IDFF

• Documentary Campus Masterschool Our vision is both to serve the current needs of the business and to shape its future. We see more films than ever being made outside the existing value chain, as well as the former borders between cinema and television blurring in terms of quality of content – and there are so many more screens on which all of this can be seen. Everything is converging, and we continue assembling our programme to reflect this.

In addition to our flagship selection of quality projects in development at the CineLink Co-Production Market, screenings of fiction and documentary films in post at CineLink Work-in-Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the CineLink Drama section features new, exciting highquality drama projects by established filmmakers from the region. The True Stories Market presents film and TV professionals with cases from the archives of key organisations documenting the Yugoslav wars of the 90’s, while young talents pitch their short film projects at Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch. Everything in one place; everything connected.

CineLink Industry Days provides awards totalling more than €145,000 in cash and services, from Eurimages, Arte, Film Center Montenegro, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Center Serbia, Post Republic and Turkish National Radio Television, among others.

Talents Sarajevo

Launched and developed in collaboration with Berlinale Talents and the Berlin International Film Festival, Talents Sarajevo is a six-day networking and training platform of the Sarajevo Film Festival for up-and-coming film professionals from Southeast Europe and the South Caucasus.

Each year, the programme brings together 60 emerging actors, cinematographers, directors, editors, film critics, producers and screenwriters for an intensive week of seminars, master classes, debates, networking and training opportunities with some of the world’s leading film professionals.

A proud member of the Talents International family: Berlinale Talents, Talents Beirut, Talents Buenos Aires, Talents Durban, Talents Guadalajara, Talent Press Rio, Talents Sarajevo and Talents Tokyo.

#25thSFF AWARDS COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Film: TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE Director: Ena Sendijarević (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands) Award in the amount of 16,000 €, co-sponsored by Tourism Association of Canton Sarajevo.

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Director: Emin Alper A TALE OF THREE SISTERS / KIZ KARDEŞLER (Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Greece) Financial Award, in the amount of 10,000 €, is provided by Agnes B. The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Actress: Irini Jambonas ROUNDS / V KRAG (Bulgaria, Serbia) Financial Award, in the amount of 2,500 €, sponsored by Tondach.

The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Actor: Levan Gelbakhiani AND THEN WE DANCED (Georgia, Sweden, France) Financial Award, in the amount of 2,500 €, sponsored by Tondach.

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Film: WHEN THE PERSIMMONS GREW / XURMALAR YETIŞƏN VAXT Director: Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan, Austria) Financial award, in the amount of 3,000 €, sponsored by the Government of Switzerland.

Special Jury Prize: STACK OF MATERIAL / GOMILA MATERIJALA Director: Sajra Subašić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Financial award in the amount of 2,500 €.

Human Rights Award: THE EUPHORIA OF BEING / A LÉTEZÉS EUFÓRIÁJA Director: Réka Szabó (Hungary) Financial award, in the amount of 3,000 €, sponsored by Kingdom of the Netherlands.

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Film - Oscar® qualifying: THE LAST IMAGE OF FATHER / POSLEDNJA SLIKA O OCU Director: Stefan Đorđević (Serbia, Croatia, Greece) Financial Award, in the amount of 2,500 €, sponsored by Podravka.

Special Jury Mentions: THE LAST TRIP TO THE SEASIDE / ULTIMUL DRUL SPRE MARE Director: Adi Voicu (Romania)

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – STUDENT FILM The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Student Film: SHERBET / ŠERBET Director: Nikola Stojanović (Serbia) Financial Award, in the amount of 1,000 €, sponsored by Regional Cooperation Council.

HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO Alejandro González Iñárritu (Director) / Paweł Pawlikowski (Director) / Isabelle Huppert (Actress) / Tim Roth (Actor)

CINELINK AWARDS EURIMAGES COPRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD or LESSONS IN LOVE Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia) THE ARTEKINO INTERNATIONAL PRIZE MIGNON, Director: Sofia Georgovassili (Greece, Romania) FILM CENTER MONTENEGRO CINELINK AWARD THIRD KIND, Director: Yorgos Zois (Greece) EAVE SCHOLARSHIP Producer: Judit Stalter, THINGS WORTH WEEPING FOR (Hungary) SPECIAL MENTION: FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE, Director: Ivan Marinović (Montenegro, Serbia) FILM CENTER SERBIA CINELINK DRAMA AWARD SABRE, Creator: Goran Stanković, Vladimir Tagić (Serbia) TRT AWARD (CineLink Work in Progress) FISH EYE, Director: Amin Behroozzadeh (Iran)

POST REPUBLIC AWARD (CineLink Work in Progress) THINGS WORTH WEEPING FOR, Director: Cristina Groșan (Hungary) CINELINK IRIDIUM AWARD (CineLink Work in Progress) NEVE SHAANAN, Director: Idan Haguel (Israel)

DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS 2019 HBO EUROPE AWARD: LEGACY, Petya Nackova (Bulgaria) DIGITAL CUBE AWARD: Petya Nackova (Bulgaria) IDFA AWARD: HOLY FATHER, Andrei Dascalescu (Romania) CAT&DOCS AWARD: THE DIVAS, Máté Kőrösi (Hungary) DOK LEIPZIG – DOK PREVIEW SELECTION IT’S HER STORY, Asia Dér, Sára Haragonics (Hungary)

AUDIENCE AWARD BH TELECOM BEST FEATURE FILM: LA BELLE EPOQUE Director: Nicolas Bedos (France) BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: HONEYLAND Director: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska (North Macedonia)

RECIPIENTS OF THE HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO AWARD:

2019 Alejandro González Iñárritu,

Paweł Pawlikowski, Isabelle Huppert, Tim Roth / 2018 Nuri Bilge

Ceylan, Nijaz Hastor / 2017 John Cleese, Oliver Stone / 2016 Ste-

phen Frears, Wolfgang Amadeus Brülhart / 2015 Robert De Niro /

2014 Atom Egoyan, Benicio Del Toro / 2014 Gael García Bernal, Danis Tanović, Agnès B. / 2013 Roberto Olla, Béla Tarr / 2012

Branko Lustig / 2011 Angelina

Jolie, Jafar Panahi, Emil Tedeschi / 2010 Dieter Kosslick / 2009 Manfred Schmidt / 2008 Cat Villiers /

2007 Steve Buscemi / 2006 Mike Leigh, Gavrilo Grahovac / 2005 Marco Müller

Djibril Zonga, Open Air Cinema

Bero Beyer, Jovana Stojiljković, Ruben Östlund, Teona Strugar Mitevska and Funa Maduka, Competition Programme - Feature Film Jury, 25th Sarajevo Film Festival

25thSFF IN NUMBERS

17 programmes / 270 films / from 56 countries / in 13 different venues and on 15 screens / more than 4,000 accredited guests / 750 media representatives from 30 countries / 350 volunteers / more than 100,000 visitors Ladj Ly

Dawn Luebbe and Jocelyn DeBoer

Eugenio Caballero

Dominique Welinski, Ognjen Glavonić and Eva Röse, Competition Programme - Short Film Jury, 25th Sarajevo Film Festival

Nadav Lapid

Mirsad Purivatra, Festival Director and Alejandro González Iñárritu

Danis Tanović and Maëlys de Rudder

Gael García Bernal

Pawel Pawlikowski and Małgorzata Bela

Béla Tarr

Brigitte Lacombe and Alejandro González Iñárritu

Elia Suleiman

Kantemir Balagov

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Benicio Del Toro, recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, Open Air Cinema

Daniel Craig and Alexander Payne

Michael Fassbender

Darren Aronofsky

Morgan Freeman

Robert De Niro, recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, Open Air Cinema

Gillian Anderson

Juliette Binoche

Michael Moore

Bono

SAVE THE DATES: 26th Sarajevo Film Festival 14 – 21 August 2020 Film submission period opens on 17 February CineLink Co-Production Market 18 – 20 August CineLink Work-in-Progress 17 – 19 August CineLink Drama 15 – 20 August Docu Rough Cut Boutique 15 – 19 August True Stories Market 15 – 18 August Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch 18 – 19 August Avant Premiere 16 – 20 August CineLink Talks 15 – 20 August CineLink project development workshop: 6 – 10 April Talents Sarajevo 15 – 20 August Open call: Beginning of March Application deadline: Beginning of May Selection results: End of June Accreditations (Film professionals, Press, CineLink Industry Days, Students) Applications are accepted from May. More about all application and submission deadlines at www.sff.ba / Press Contact: press@sff.ba

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