The film CAT’S CRY by Sanja Živković will be screened tonight at 20:45 PM at the UNIQA Open Air Cinema Stari Grad in selection Open Air Premiere of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
The film LEAVE ONE DAY by Amélie Bonnin was screened tonight at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema. The film opened the Festival de Cannes in 2025, and at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival it will be screened in the Open Air Programme.
The 23rd CineLink Industry Days took place at 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, where projects in different formats and stages of development from Southeast Europe and the MENA region were presented.
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film, actor Willem Dafoe was presented with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
As part of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, and in collaboration with UNIQA Insurance, an exhibition tennis match was held on Franc Lehár Street in the heart of Sarajevo, featuring the legendary tennis player and Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanišević.
In the film „Yugo Florida“, director Vladimir Tagić tells the story of a son who decides to care for his estranged and unbearable father during the final weeks of his life. The film will be screened tonight at National Theatre Sarajevo.
Director Ivana Mladenović returns to Sarajevo with “Sorella di Clausura,” a story about a woman from rural Romania who falls in love with a Balkan musician after seeing him on television.
Willem Dafoe, the world-famous actor who will tonight be awarded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival for his outstanding contribution to film art, held a Masterclass this morning moderated by critic Neil Young.
What happens when a homeless single mother sees no other way for her and her daughter to survive than to rent out her body as an incubator for families who cannot have children?
Alban Muja is a Kosovan visual artist and filmmaker who spends his time between Prishtina and Berlin. Muja represented the Republic of Kosovo at the 58th Venice Biennale with "Family Album," a project exploring displacement and identity.
The film WHITES WASH AT NINETY by Marko Naberšnik will be screened tonight at 8:45 PM, at the UNIQA Summer Open Air Cinema Stari Grad, in the Open Air Premiere selection of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Actor Willem Dafoe, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film, will be receiveded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo tonight at 8:30 PM at the KSC Skenderija.
The short documentary “Dance Arena: The Temple of Electronic Music“ will be shown as part of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival. Directed by Ivan Đurović, the film takes viewers behind the scenes of one of the world’s most renowned festival stages, EXIT’s Dance Arena, and will be available to audiences free of charge worldwide on the online platform Ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba until August 29.
The world premiere of the film YUGO FLORIDA by Vladimir Tagić will be the last screening in the Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival. The film will be screened tonight at 9:30 PM at the National Theatre Sarajevo.
The Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival continues tonight at 9 PM with the regional premiere of the film SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenović at the Sarajevo National Theatre.
“What this spectacle is all about it’s bringing together those people who were fighting to make films. And I don’t think there is another festival in the world that has thought of that. And that makes me very proud to have this award. Thank you very very much”, said Winstone
Actresses Ebada Hasan and Safiyya Ingar were guests of the Grand Coffee with... Programme of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, and they talked about the film "Brides" by the British director Nadia Fall, in which they play the title characters.
The Green Club and the Sarajevo Film Festival, with the partnership and support of UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized the international conference “Climate Change – Challenges of Future Prosperity.”
Director Hana Jušić is coming to Sarajevo with the film GOD WILL NOT HELP, about an unusual Chilean woman who, at the beginning of the 20th century, arrives in an isolated shepherd community in the Croatian mountains, claiming to be the widow of their brother who had emigrated.
Director Kristina Nikolova was so captivated by the character and work of Ivo Dimchev that, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, she left America for Bulgaria to make a film about him — an openly gay man, a gifted singer, an eccentric and imaginative painter, and provocative in every possible way, who draws strength from the hardships that have marked his life since childhood.
The film OUR TIME WILL COME by Ivette Löcker is an emotional story of two people who stumble at every step over prejudice and an Austrian system that crushes migrants, yet, like in a fairy tale, their love proves stronger than all obstacles.
Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, video artist, and researcher living and working between Belgrade and Berlin. Her first feature-length documentary, YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY, had its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013.
Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University in 2008. . Her short film DINOLA was screened at over 300 festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and was nominated for a European Film Award.
Aysel Küçüksu is a Bulgarian filmmaker with Turkish roots. She is based in Denmark, where she has strengthened her foundations in filmmaking through hands-on programmes such as the 48-hour Filmschool at Filmværket and Søndagsfilmskolen at the Danish Film Institute.
The film SURVIVING EARTH directed by Thea Gajić was shown tonight at the UNIQA Open Air Cinema Stari Grad, in the selection of the Open Air Premiere of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Tonight at 8:30 PM, the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema will screen the film Case 137 by Dominik Moll, as part of the Open Air Programme of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
British actor Ray Winstone will be received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo tonight at 10pm at the National Theatre Sarajevo in recognition of his remarkable acting career and exceptional contributions to the art of cinema.
The regional premiere of the film GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jušić, will continue the Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival tonight at 7 p.m. at the National Theater Sarajevo.
The film BRIDES by Nadia Fall was screened tonight at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema, as part of the Open Air Programme of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival. Before the screening, the audience at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema was greeted by actress Safiyya Ingar.
Bojan Stojčić's first film "Hope Hotel Phantom" delighted the audience at the Sarajevo Film Festival, as well as the team of young authors whose directorial style captivates with creativity, emotional charge and personal stories.
For many years, director Katalin Bársony followed with her camera and her heart the efforts of young Nesmir Hasani to return from a Kosovo camp for internally displaced persons to his native Germany.
Domestic violence marked the upbringing of director Lina Vdovîi, whose film “Tata” begins on the day her abuser reaches out to her in person – her father, long an immigrant and manual laborer in Italy, appears before the phone camera covered in bruises…
In “DJ Ahmet” director Georgi M. Unkovski tells the story of a young boy from a rural village in North Macedonia who finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations.
The recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, British acting veteran Ray Winstone, held a Masterclass at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, where he revealed a series of intriguing details from his rich career.
The film THE TRACK by Ryan Sidhoo will be premiered in the Open Air Premiere selection of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, tonight at 8:45 PM, in UNIQA Open Air Cinema Stari Grad.
The film BRIDES by Nadia Fall, tonight at 8:30 p.m., will be screened at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema as part of the Open Air Programme of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival. The film premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
The Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival continues with the regional premiere of the film DJ AHMET by Georgi M. Unkovski, tonight at 7 pm at the National Theater Sarajevo.
The acclaimed Italian author Paolo Sorrentino was awarded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema in in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema.
With his debut film Stars of Little Importance, director Renátó Olasz turns his camera to a brother and sister returning to their small hometown, where nothing is as it once was.
“For us, the most important thing is that we do everything”, say Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, who bring to Sarajevo White Snail, fragile love story of two outsiders.
Director Michel Franco, a prominent voice in contemporary Mexican cinema, held a Masterclass at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, where he shared with the audience his distinctive approach to crafting his acclaimed films.
