23 World Premieres in the BH Film Program

The jubilee 20th edition of the BH FILM Program at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, organized by the Association of Filmmakers in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will present 43 films. 

 

This year, the program will include: 2 feature fiction films, 17 feature documentaries, 8 short fiction films, 7 short documentaries and 8 student films. As a special screening, the program will also feature an omnibus created as part of a student assignment at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

 

For the fifteenth consecutive year, the backbone of the program is BH student competition, which showcases films made by students from Bosnian and Herzegovinian film academies and faculties. This year, 8 student films from the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka and the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo will compete for three official awards: Best Student Film, Special Jury Mention, and Jury Commendation. 

 

The winners will be selected by a jury composed of Bosnian and Herzegovinian director Isidora Ratković, director Ado Hasanović from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and scriptwriter and director Matevž Luzar from Slovenia.

 

This year's program will present a total of 23 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 1 European premiere, and 4 regional premieres. Out of the 43 films in this year's BH Film program, 31 are Bosnian and Herzegovinian productions, while 12 are foreign productions.

 

BH Film is a program dedicated to promoting Bosnian and Herzegovinian cinema, and each year it continues to prove itself as an essential platform for Bosnian filmmakers, regardless of where they live and work.

 

BH FILM PROGRAM LINE-UP 2025:

 

 

THE PAVILION

Dino Mustafić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, 2025, 100 min. 

 

OTTER

Srđan Vuletić, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Kosovo*, 2025, 88 min. 

 

 

BLUM- MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINY

Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, 2024, 76 min

 

BOSNIAN KNIGHT

Tarik Hodžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2025, 120 min. 

 

ĆETIBA

Ramiz Huremagić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, color, 60 min. 

 

DOM 

Massimiliano Battistella, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 81 min. 

 

IL RAGAZZO DELLA DRINA / THE BOY FROM THE RIVER DRINA

Zijad Ibrahimović, Switzerland, 2025, 73 min. 

 

KAPIJA - THE OATH TO TUZLA'S YOUTH!

Damir Pirić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 70 min. 

 

HOUSE WITH HEART

Sabahet Džafica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, DCP, color, 47 min. 

 

BUTTERFLIES WITHOUT WINGS

Anel Džanković, Damir Kerla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 56 min. 

 

MISS PENITENCIÁRIA / PRISON BEAUTY CONTEST

Srđan Šarenac, Serbia / Brazil / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2024, 80 min. 

 

THE MYSTICAL CANYON OF RAKITNICA 

Rubina Smajić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, color, 37 min. 

 

GRANDMA SENA

Dino Omerović, Türkiye, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, DCP, color, 30 min. 

 

NESSUNO VI FARÀ DEL MALE / NO ONE WILL HURT YOU

Dino Hodić, Switzerland, 2025, 75 min. 

 

THE PARTISAN NECROPOLIS

Chris Leslie, UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 71 min. 

 

FAMILY

Davorin Sekulić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 50 min

 

NONE WILL SPEAK THE TRUTH 

Azra Husarić Omerović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 42 min. 

 

THE SREBRENICA TAPE – FROM DAD, FOR ALISA

Chiara Sambuchi, Germany, Austria, 2025, 88 min. 

 

THE TRACK

Ryan Sidhoo, Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 91 min. 

 

 

ANATOMY OF A LOST SOUND

Zuko Garagić, Czechia / USA / Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 19 min. 

 

A DISTANT COUNTRY

Edin Hurem, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 4 min. 

 

JOE

Vuk Rađen, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 28 min. 

 

EGZAMIN / EXAM

Damir Mehić, Poland, 2024, DCP, color, 8 min.

 

HERCULES

Marko Dukić, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Serbia / Croatia, 2024, 26 min. 

 

BULLET IN THE RIFLE

Karmen Obrdalj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, 2025, 19 min. 

 

NO BIG DEAL

Mirza Abdagić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 17 min. 

 

ŽIVA

Tamara Maksimović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 7 min. 

 

LAVANDER

Mateja Raičković, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Hungary, 2025, 18 min. 

 

NOT SURE WHERE I AM

Enisa Adrović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, 2024, 7 min. 

 

PIANO BOXING

Saša Peševski, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 15 min. 

 

PUN KURA* 

Antonela Pehar Šimunović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 27 min. 

 

STEEL HOTEL SONG

Bojan Stojčić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, color, 19 min. 

 

EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE, YOU ARE BORN AGAIN

Mladen Bundalo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, 2025, 24 min. 

 

FORGOTTEN STATIONS 

Zdenko Jurilj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 15 min. 

 

PROCESS THROUGH GENRE

Din Gušmirović, Marko Velimirović, Nirvana Delić, Emir Solaković, Marko Jovančić, Arman Zrno, Mirza Abdagić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 35 min.

 

ILLUMINATION,

Mina Vavan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 16 min. 

 

ABOUT A BULL

Emir Solaković, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023, 27 min. 

 

A PIGEON

Vuk Popović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 25 min. 

 

BENEATH THE SURFACE

Maja Ćetojević, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 9 min. 

 

THE STORY OF MY SUMMER BREAK 

Milica Vujasin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 20 min. 

 

ON THE EDGE

Marija Kalabić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 7 min.

 

REC

Fedor Marić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024, 6 min.

 

THE OFFERING

Marko Brkić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 20 min.