Competition Programme - Feature Film 2025.

Elma Tataragić, the selector of the Competition Programme - Feature Film, has included 9 films in the programme, of which three films in the competition for awards will have a world premiere, and six films will have a regional premiere.

 

Awards: 

 

HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM

Award in the amount of €16,000

 

HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Award in the amount of €10,000, sponsored by the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with UNESCO

 

HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS

Award in the amount of €2,500

 

HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR

Award in the amount of €2,500

 

1. OTTER / VIDRA, Srđan Vuletić (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Kosovo*, 2025, 88 min.) – World premiere

 

A reserved teenager, Hana, has been invited by her crush, Balsa, to go to a lake with him to film a solar eclipse. On the morning of their planned trip, however, Hana’s father, a top-notch pilot, dies. In his will, Hana’s father requests that he be buried in a space suit. Frustrated by her mother’s inability to stand up to the rest of the family, who want to give her father a traditional funeral, Hana runs away from home and goes to the lake, where she comes to realise that Balsa is an aggressive predator. Hana must suppress her considerate and obedient nature or her destiny will be as dark as the solar eclipse. 

 

2. STARS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE / MINDEN CSILLAG, Renátó Olasz (Hungary, 2025, 83 min.) – World premiere

 

A brother and sister return home from the capital for Christmas to reunite with childhood friends and first loves. They hold a party. They drink heavily. Nothing is the same as before. But everything is good, right? Through the siblings' eyes, we observe an abandoned city, where time has frozen, and we experience some Hungarian rural destinies. The siblings must face some questions: Where are they going, now that we are thirty years old? Is this how they imagined their lives would be when they were teenagers?

 

3. YUGO FLORIDA, Vladimir Tagić (Serbia, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Montenegro, 2025, 112 min.) – World premiere

 

Zoran’s awkward, almost pointless life—which features a pothead roommate, an unavailable ex-girlfriend, and a job on reality TV—is turned upside down when his estranged and intolerable father is diagnosed with a terminal illness and Zoran commits himself to helping him through his final weeks.

 

4. DJ AHMET, Georgi M. Unkovski (North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, 2025, 99 min.) – Regional premiere

 

Ahmet, a fifteen-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience in love—with a girl who is already promised to someone else.

 

5. FANTASY, Kukla (Slovenia, North Macedonia, 2025, 98 min.) – Regional premiere

 

Tomboys Mihrije, Sina, and Jasna are best friends in their early twenties. They live in Slovenia, and refuse to conform to the conservative system they live in. Their world is turned upside down when they meet Fantasy, a transgender woman. Together, they embark on a journey that explores the complexities of gender, desire, and self-discovery.

 

6. GOD WILL NOT HELP / BOG NEĆE POMOĆI, Hana Jušić (Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia, 2025, 135 min.) – Regional premiere

 

Teresa, a Chilean woman, comes to a firmly structured and isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early twentieth century, claiming to be the widow of their émigré brother. Her arrival has a significant impact on the dynamics among the members of the community, and brings with it unrest as well as inspiration for other women.

 

7. SORELLA DI CLAUSURA, Ivana Mladenović (Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain, 2025, 103 min.) – Regional premiere

 

If you wish for something fervently enough, will the whole universe work in your favour? Stela fell in love with a Balkan musician—after seeing him on television. Determined to meet him, she accepts help from Vera, a glamorous starlet rumoured to be the musician's mistress. Their worlds collide when Vera promises to rescue Stela from her poverty-stricken life by taking her to Bucharest, where she runs a sex-products business.

 

8. WHITE SNAIL, Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter (Austria, Germany, 2025, 115 min.) – Regional premiere

 

Dreaming of a career in China, a Belarusian model finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue. Their encounter disturbs her senses of body, beauty, and mortality. The fragile love story of two outsiders who turn each other’s worlds upside down and discover that they are not alone.

 

9. WIND, TALK TO ME / VETRE, PRIČAJ SA MNOM, Stefan Đorđević (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 100 min.) – Regional premiere

 

Stefan reunites with his family to celebrate his grandmother’s birthday for the first time since his mother recently passed away. This homecoming, driven by Stefan's urge to complete a film about his mother as well as an attempt to make amends by rescuing a stray dog, will ignite an introspective journey. Inspired by director Stefan Đorđević ’s real-life experiences, and starring his real-life family members in a mission to complete a lake house and a film, WIND, TALK TO ME is an intimate cinematic exploration of the timeless mother-son relationship.

 

* This label does not prejudge the status of Kosovo and is in accordance with Resolution 1244 and the opinion of the ICJ on Kosovo's declaration of independence