Festival Themes

The programme comprise films from around the world, both narrative and documentary, choosing 18 films from around the globe excluding the southeastern European territories which compose the festival’s competition strand.

Sarajevo Film Festival has the pleasure of announcing that this year's President of the Jury for Competition Programme – Feature Film will be Bosnian director Danis Tanović

Despite the widespread belief that his early films had been instrumental for the emergence of the “New Romanian Cinema”, Cristi Puiu (Bucharest, 1967) rejects being considered the father of the new “wave”, as well as the assumption that the new Romanian films somehow reflect the national spirit.

Sarajevo Film Festival has great pleasure to announce that Danny Glover is curating the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award for 2013.