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26th Sarajevo Film Festival is open: the world premiere of FOCUS, GRANDMA at ondemand.sff.ba watched by almost 14.000 people from 42 countries in the first two hours

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.

Film will be available all around the world at ondemand.sff.ba for the next seven days. Before the screening, a part of the film crew had a symbolic photo shoot on the red carpet outside the Sarajevo National Theatre.

All the Sarajevo Film Festival programmes, including the film FOCUS, GRANDMA, will be broadcasted at ondemand.sff.ba online platform. Before the world premiere of FOCUS, GRANDMA, the audience was greeted and welcomed to the online festival edition by Mirsad Purivatra, Director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, in a video message.

The opening ceremony was hosted by the BiH actress Belma Salkunić, which continued the tradition of Sarajevo Film Festival being hosted by young and perspective BiH actors and actresses.