24th Sarajevo Film Festival Final Report

The focus on Region through the Competition selections for feature, short, documentary and student film, as well as a focus on the film industry (CineLink), an educational platform for young filmmakers (Talents Sarajevo), and the presence of the international film industry, filmmakers and media representatives, together with over 100 000 visitors, confirms SFF’s status as the leading film festival in the region, recognized by film professionals and the wider public alike.

 

In an emerging territory of over 180 million inhabitants, the Sarajevo Film Festival serves as a common platform for the film industry in the entire region, setting standards for the organization of film festivals, as well as for the promotion and presentation of film in South East Europe. Furthermore, the Sarajevo Film Festival shines an international spotlight on films, talent and future film projects from South East Europe.

 

Asghar Farhadi (Director, Writer, Iran) 

 

Judita Franković Brdar (Actress, Croatia)  

Mike Goodridge (Artistic Director of International Film Festival & Awards Macao, UK)

Brigitte Lacombe (Photographer, France)  

Ana Urushadze (Writer, Director, Georgia)  

 

Bulgaria, Germany, France

Director: Milko Lazarov

Producers: Veselka Kiryakova, Eike Goreczka, Christoph Kukula, Guillaume de Seille

Financial Award, in the amount of 16.000 €.

 

Ioana Uricaru/ LEMONADE

Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden

Financial Award, in the amount of 10,000 €, is provided by Agnes B.

 

Zsófia Szamosi, ONE DAY/ EGY NAP

Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €, sponsored by Tondach.

 

Leon Lučev, THE LOAD/ TERET

Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €, sponsored by Tondach.

 

Konstantina Kotzamani (Writer, Director, Greece) 

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Writer, Director, Croatia)  

Ena Sendijarević (Filmmaker, Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Director: Ermin Bravo 

Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €, sponsored by Podravka.

 

ICEBERGS 

USA, Greece

Director: Eirini Vianelli

 

 

Richard Kwietniowski (Senior Lecturer at London Film School, UK) 

Andrea Rudert (Head of Project Management FILMFEST MUNICH, Programmer FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH, Germany)

Neven Samardžić (Director, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

 

Hungary

Director: Hajni Kis

Financial Award, in the amount of 1,000 €, sponsored by Regional Cooperation Council.

 

 

Leena Pasanen (Festival Director of DOK Leipzig, Germany) 

Luciano Rigolini (Artist-photographer, producer, Switzerland)

Marina Gumzi (Producer/ Scriptwriter, Slovenia) 

 

Director: Nebojša Slijepčević 

Croatia 

Financial award, in the amount of 3,000 €, sponsored by Government of Switzerland.

 

Director: László Csuja 

Hungary, Qatar
Financial award in the amount of 2,500 €.

 

Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Director: Didem Pekün 

Best film of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film dealing with the subject of human rights. Award in the amount of 3,000 €, sponsored by Government of Switzerland.

 

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director

Nijaz Hastor, the owner and founder of the ASA Prevent Group and founder of the Hastor Foundation

 

  

Annamaria Lodato, Behrooz Hashemian, Boban Jevtić, Čedomir Kolar, Danijel Hočevar, Georges Goldenstern, Sehad Čekić

 

Director: Juraj Lerotić

Producer: Boris T. Matić

Production company: Propeler Film

Co-production company: STARAGARA

Croatia, Slovenia

 

Director: Pjer Žalica

Producer: Pjer Žalica, Aida Huseinović

Production company: FORUM Association for Art and Culture

Co-production: Propeler Film, A.S.A.P. Films, Staragara, Bascelik, Artikulacija Film

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro

 

Director: Gentian Koçi

Producer: Gentian Koçi, Blerina Hankollari

Production company: ARTALB FILM

Co-production company: Graal Films

Albania, Greece

 

FIUME O MORTE! 

Director: Igor Bezinović

Producer: Tibor Keser, Vanja Jambrović, Fabrizio Polpettini

Production company: Restart

Co-production company: La Bête, NOSOROGI

Croatia, France, Slovenia

 

Gabor Greiner, Kim Yutani, Marco Mueller, Serkan Yildirim, Tolke Palm

 

TRT AWARD 

Director: Andrei Gruzsniczki

Producer: Alexandru Teodorescu

Production company: Saga Film

Romania

 

AFRICA 

Director: Oren Gerner

Producer: Itay Akirav

Production company: Film Harbour

Israel

 

IBRAHIM 

Director: Lina Alabed

Producer: Rami El Nihawi

Production company: SakaDo

Co-produced by: Kirstine Barfod Film 

Palestine, Lebanon, Qatar, Denmark

 

Ana Balentović, Dalibor Matanić, Paula McHarg 

 

Creator: Arya Su Altıoklar, Samim Türkmen

Director: Erhan Yürük, Boran Güney

Writer: Avni Tuna Dilligil 

Producer: Metin Alihan Yalçındağ, Mehmet Altıoklar, Yaman Birman

Production company: KısaKes Production

Turkey 

PARTNER'S AWARDS