Films in the programme: Special Screenings

The programme of the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival includes six special screenings: at the end of the programme, four more special screenings will be shown: the film WHAT HAPPENS AFTER? directed by Meg Ryan is on Tuesday, August 20, at 4:30 pm at Cineplexx 7. Adrien Beau's movie THE WEREWOLF is on Wednesday, August 21, at 3 pm at Meeting Point Cinema. Watch the film MY BELOVED FAMILY... by Isild Le Besco on Thursday, August 22 at 3:00 p.m. at the Meeting Point Cinema, and ÁRNI by director Dorka Vermes on Thursday, August 22 at 4:30 p.m. at Cineplexx 4 and on Friday, August 23 at 11 a.m. in the Meeting Point Cinema.

 

From this programme, BRATE by Marc Ramon, Alejandro Llambés and Marc Visa and OH, CANADA by Paul Schrader have been shown so far at a special gala screening at the National Theater in Sarajevo.

 

Hungary, 2023, 103 min.

Director: Dorka Vermes

Cast: Péter Turi, Pompónia Pálya, Andrea Spolarics, Zoltán Gyöngyösi, Botond Kovács, Zoltán Koppány, Dorottya Gellért, Renáta Rédei

 

Sensitive and bird-like, Árni works as a handyman at a small, dingy travelling circus that tours rural areas. The troupe is made up of a family that runs the circus, and Árni is the only non-family member. He lives like a monk; his days revolve around feeding the animals and executing various tasks. The circus gets a new python, which inspires curiosity in Árni. The process of taming the creature gradually has an impact on him.

 

Spain, 2022, 38 min.

Director: Marc Ramon, Alejandra Llambés, Marc Visa

 

Džanan Musa arrived in Spain in 2020 as an unknown to many, and went on to become the hero of an unbelievable season with the humble Río Breogán, the basketball club of Lugo, a place Musa could not previously locate on a map. BRATE is the story of how a small club changed a top player's career. This is the story of Džanan Musa.

 

France, 2024, 83 min.

Director: Isild Le Besco

Cast: Elodie Bouchez, Marisa Berenson, Jeanne Balibar, Isild Le Besco, Axel Granberger, Sam Spruell, Elie Semoun, Stefano Cassetti, Geoffrey Carey, Laëtitia Eido

 

Estelle escapes domestic violence to join her mother before a family reunion. Her sisters, half-brothers, and the matriarch, Queen, come together, sharing emotions and memories. The arrival of Marc, who has been absent since childhood, and his intention to scatter their father's ashes at sea, rekindle old grudges. Amid conflict and revelations, the family confronts its past.

 

USA, 2023, 104 min.

Director: Meg Ryan

Cast: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Hal Liggett

 

Ex-lovers Bill and Willa get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to—and annoyed by—one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.

 

France, 2023, 90 min.

Director: Adrien Beau

Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider, Claire Duburcq, Gabriel Pavie, Erwan Ribard

 

When the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behaviour as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha. What begins as merely strange quickly devolves into a full-fledged nightmare when Gorcha comes home, seemingly no longer himself.

 

 

USA, 2024, 95 min. 

Director: Paul Schrader

Cast: Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli

 

A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. A confession filmed right in front of his wife.