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Sarajevo Film Festival Proudly Presents Award Winners for 2010                                                                                   Tonight in the !hej Open Air Cinema Film INVICTUS                                                                                   Morgan Freeman: "Sarajevo is a Town of Charming People"                                                                                   Guests of the “Coffee with…” Programme Juan José Campanella and Javier Godino                                                                                   Tonight the Announcement of the Audience Award Winners                                                                                   Orbico Family Day: All Day Entertainment for Everyone                                                                                   Gaspar Noé Gave a Lecture at the Sarajevo Talent Campus                                                                                   THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES in the Open Air                                                                                   16th Sarajevo Film Festival Partners’ Awards                                                                                   World Premiere Screening of the Film TILVA ROSH                                                                                  

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A Word from our Selectors: In Focus

 

 

This year's In Focus programme presents mainly established masters of contemporary cinema. As the programme is set to present the best of the region's films in the past year, we have programmed debut film THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD by upcoming Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, which premiered at the Berlinale this year.

Among the masters of cinema, we are bringing two films from Turkey, MILK by Semih Kaplanoğlu and PANDORA'S BOX by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, who have both been guests of our previous Competition Programmes. Both films have had a very successful year: MILK premiered at the Official Competition of the Venice Film Festival, while PANDORA’S BOX premiered at San Sebastian Film Festival, winning the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell for Best Actress. Both films also participated at dozens of festivals, winning numerous awards and are among the most successful films in Turkey and the region. György Pálfi is yet again a guest of the In Focus programme with his new low budget film I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND, stylistically very different from his 2006 film TAXIDERMIA. POLICE, ADJECTIVE by Corneliu Porumboiu is another successful film, which premiered at the Cannes Un Certain Regard programme this year, where it stirred a lot of attention within media and film professionals.

In THE WHITE RIBBON, winner of Palm D’Or at Cannes this year, Michael Haneke presents the peak of European filmmaking and completes the In Focus programme for this year. Shot in sober black and white, with no musical score and told in a stately and deliberate pace, THE WHITE RIBBON tells the story of the birth of Nazism in Europe with fascinatingly austere cruelty.

OMNIBUS 15, a project curated by the Bulgarian producer Martichka Bozhilova, is specially featured. It consists of 15 short films, each marking every transitional year in Bulgarian society from 1994 to today. The film is a wonderful example of all of the different approaches to filmmaking present not only in Bulgaria, but throughout the regional cinema.

The In Focus programme has developed as the regional cinema has. In Focus 2009 presents by far the best selection of films, exhibiting outstanding regional filmmaking that has been recognized around the globe.

Elma Tataragić, programmer

 

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