I am proud of everything we have accomplished over the last 27 years. We started from nothing, when our city was under siege, and today we are a globally renowned institution attended by filmmakers and film industry professionals from the region and the whole world
As part of the Green Festival eco-initiative, Sarajevo Film Festival is introducing green measures to reduce its environmental impact and to raise the awareness about the importance of eco-friendly behaviours.
The award ceremony for the best achievements in the category of TV series at the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival was held tonight in the Hotel Holiday in Sarajevo.
Tonight at 8 PM, an award ceremony for the best achievements in the category of TV series will be held, and actors from throughout the region will come to the ceremony in Sarajevo.
Today at 2.30 pm, a special Red Carpet will be organized, on which Bono Vox is coming along with Wim Wenders, the winner of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo of the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival!
At the National Theater Sarajevo, Wim Wenders, one of the world’s most significant filmmakers, was presented with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo for his exceptional contribution to the art of film.
For all those who are not in Sarajevo for the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival or prefer to watch films from the comfort of their home, Sarajevo Film Festival also provides the most of films from its programme for watching online.
The 27th Sarajevo Film Festival will be opened on Friday, 13 August, with a ceremony at the National Theatre in Sarajevo. The honour of hosting this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival was granted to a young actor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dino Bajrović.
A total of 48 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will feature 18 world, 3 international, 1 european, 25 regional and 1 B&H premieres.
Ahead of the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival, which will take place from 13 to 20 August, a press conference was held at the Meeting Point cinema in Sarajevo, where jury members of the Competition Programme – Feature Film were announced, and the new main sponsor of the Festival: UniCredit Bank was presented.
There are fifteen film professionals – actresses, actors, directors and screenwriters – participating in the Ponta Lopud masterclass. They come from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
The Adriatic Audience Award will be presented to the best film in the cash amount of EUR 5,000 for the film cinema distribution in the territory of former Yugoslavia.
The Cineplexx Sarajevo multiplex cinema was ceremoniously opened with the premiere screening of the film "Fast and Furious 9", followed by a social event.
Sarajevo Film Festival is introducing new awards: Hearts of Sarajevo for TV Series, with an aim to develop and stimulate production of high-quality audio-visual content.
Cineplexx, the leading cinema chain in the region, is proud to announce the opening of Cineplexx Sarajevo on June 17th with the premiere movie "Fast & Furious 9"!
The Sarajevo Film Festival is introducing a new award category: Hearts of Sarajevo for TV Series, wishing to promote high-quality regional television series and their authors, actors, and actresses, and to heighten their international appeal.
In addition to films and talks with filmmakers, two panel discussions will also be held: on Tuesday, 27 April and on Wednesday, 28 April, live from 18:00 to 19:30hrs on the Sarajevo Film Festival Facebook page.
Sarajevo Film Festival presents the Dealing with the Past programme in a special edition – online – to the audience in the region and at the Meeting Point cinema
From April 9th to 17th, films chosen by selectors from the four partner festivals will be shown to audiences in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, and Montenegro.
Festivals are places that help us decide about our future direction together, and show ourselves as members of the same community – a film community. Together we bring special and new experience of a regional film festival
Young film lovers from 38 European countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina will once again choose the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award.
“We are delighted to honour one of the central figures of modern cinema. With his work in the field of visual arts as an exceptional filmmaker and photographer, Wim Wenders continues to give the audience unforgettable stories and emotions”, said Festival Director Mirsad Purivatra
Due to the pandemic, the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival is taking place online on the ondemand.sff.ba platform and the films from the Competition Feature and Documentary Program as well as the Open Air Selections are being accompanied by the Festival TV.
The world premiere of a new film by Pjer Žalica, FOCUS, GRANDMA, opened the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. It was a festival new record: the world premiere of Focus, Grandma was watched by almost 14.000 people from 42 countries in the first two hours of its showing on Festival online platform ondemand.sff.ba.
The world premiere of a new film by Pjer Žalica, FOCUS, GRANDMA, opened the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. Before the screening, a part of the film crew had a symbolic photo shoot on the red carpet outside the National Theatre of BiH.
Twelve feature films from the programme of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival are competing for the Audentia award. The members of the jury are: Aida Begić, film director (BiH), Marco Müller, artistic director of the international film festival ‘Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’ (Italy/China), and Iris Zappe-Heller, deputy director and head of department of Gender Equality and Diversity of the Austrian Film Institute (Austria).
The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival will be opened on Friday, 14th of August, with the world premiere of Focus, Grandma by director Pjer Žalica, via ondemand.sff.ba.
Ondemand.sff.ba will be the central site for all the films, programmes, and contents of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, not only for the viewers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also for regional and global film lovers.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is the recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Award is given for outstanding contribution to the art of film. At this edition of the festival Mikkelsen will hold a Masterclass that the festival public will be able to watch online, via ondemand.sff.ba.
The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival presents this year’s series of Masterclasses. As always, they feature some of the most renowned filmmakers from all over the world. This year, the festival public will be able to watch them online, via ondemand.sff.ba.
Due to greatly increased concern regarding the epidemiological situation in Sarajevo, and record cases of COVID-19 infection in the city in the past several days, we at the Sarajevo Film Festival have made the decision to conduct the 2020 edition of all festival events entirely online from 14 to 21 August.
The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival will be held from 14th to 21st August in a modified format and with lower capacities of cinemas, and a part of the programme will be held online.
International relations coordinator at Film Center Serbia Anđelija Andrić, general manager at Cannes Cinéfondation Georges Goldenstern and producer Lana Matić will serve on the jury of Competition Programme – Student Film at 26th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Animator Aleta Rajič, curator Amila Ramović and programmer Andrei Tănăsescu will serve on the European Short Film Jury of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival.
This year, the “Promising Filmmakers” come from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Georgia, Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
This year, Sarajevo Film Festival will host the fifth Audentia award ceremony for the best female director, founded by Council of Europe’s Eurimages fund to promote gender equality in the European film industry.
A total of 49 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will feature 29 world, 6 international, 2 european, 11 regional and 1 Bosnian-Herzegovinian premieres.
Director Stefan Đorđević, director Thanasis Neofotistos and director, screenwriter and producer Ines Tanović will serve on the Jury of the Competition Programme - Short Film of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Producer Lejla Dedić, Director Goran Dević and Documentary Consultant and Critic Tue Steen Müller will serve on the Jury of the Competition Programme - Documentary Film of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival.
In the run up to the 18th edition of the CineLink Industry Days, Sarajevo Film Festival is announcing a new structure of the largest industry event in Southeast Europe.
Director and writer Michel Hazanavicius (President of the Jury), Artistic Director of the Berlin International Film Festival Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, Director Srdan Golubović and Head of Industry and Training projects of the Morelia Film Festival Andrea Stavenhagen will serve on the Jury of the Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival.
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to cinematic art as well as for his support of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award will be given to one of highest-profile independent filmmakers, author with impressive and recognizable artistic language. Franco will also be honoured with a retrospective of his works in the Festival’s Tribute to Programme.
This project will gather youth from the Western Balkans to attend Sarajevo Film Festival and through their eyes tell the story of intercultural dialogue, youth cooperation, diversity and peace building
The world's biggest film festivals, including Sarajevo Film Festival, unite for a 10-day streaming event on YouTube, from May 29 – June 7 at YouTube.com/WeAreOne.
Robert de Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Robert Kyncl, Cameron Bailey, Joana Vicente, Smriti Kiran, Jovan Marjanović, Takeo Hisamatsu in conversation about festivals and We Are One: A Global Film Festival
10-Day Digital Festival, Produced and Organized by Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube, will Feature Programming from Festivals including Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and Venice Film Festival
The 10-day digital festival, produced and organized by Tribeca Enterprises, will feature programming from 20 festivals including Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and many more, enabling audiences to experience films from around the world
Sarajevo Film Festival & CineLink Industry Days are announcing the Second Call for entries for CineLink Co-production Market 2020. The deadline for submitting your project is June 3, 2020.
After the film SIERANEVADA from 2016, which was in the official selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, Sarajevo-based 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 renowned French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, an Academy Award winner for his acclaimed film THE ARTIST, will preside over the Jury of the Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Online film and drama series submissions for the programmes of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, which will be held from 14th to 21st August 2020, are now open.
The 25th Sarajevo Film Festival has captured the attention of many young people who contributed, with their work and effort, to the unique festival atmosphere.
Organized by Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center, Docu Rough Cut Boutique is a regional platform dedicated to documentary projects in the advanced phase of the editing process.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has been granted support by UNESCO to execute a study on its cultural, economic and social impact on Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On the occasion of the World Cities Day, which is marked annually on October 31st in Paris, UNESCO announced that Sarajevo has been granted the status of the UNESCO City of Film. UNESCO grants the City of Film status to cities with a rich cinematographic history, prominent films festivals, and notable film locations and production infrastructure, which are committed to the development and promotion of filmmaking.
On Tuesday, August 20th, government representatives of the Sarajevo Canton and representatives from the Sarajevo Film Festival held a press conference at the Festival Square to announce a new government project to the public.
A talk regarding the exhibition "Cinema | Portraits Brigitte Lacombe; Photographs 1975-2017" will be held today at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 17:30.
Sarajevo Film Festival pays tribute to director Pawel Pawlikowski and honours him for his outstanding contribution to the art of film and his lasting friendship with the city of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The acclaimed director was presented with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award.
Mexican director, producer and screenwriter Alejandro G. Iñárritu is one of the most acclaimed and well-regarded filmmakers working today, known for telling poignant and international stories about the human condition.
The jubilee 25th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival started tonight. The Festival was opened with a series of festive events, and the central ceremony took place in the National Theatre.
The recipients of the 2019 Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, Oscar-winning directors Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and Pawel Pawlikowski, as well as Oscar-winning production designer Eugenio Caballero and cast and crew of THE SON, led by director Ines Tanović, will walk the Red carpet of the Sarajevo Film Festival on the opening night of the leading film showcase in Southeast Europe.
Use the opportunity to meet the legendary French actress! At 18:00 on Sunday, August 18, at the Meeting Point Cinema in Sarajevo, the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival is organizing a Masterclass with Isabelle Huppert – a winner of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award.
