Festival Themes

Sarajevo Film Festival has the pleasure of announcing that this year's President of the Jury for Competition Programme – Feature Film will be one of the most significant directors of our time.

The 20th Sarajevo Film Festival Tribute to Michael Winterbottom is a concise illustration how stubbornly and in different keys, using unconventional formal procedures and experiments, this author reminds us that films are not just stories about the world around us, but also reflections about their own nature.

Bernal, Hazanavicius, Leigh, Bejo, Žbanić, Leo, Diao, Winterbottom, Agnes B., Labed and Pawlikowski, among others, will be guests of this year's Sarajevo Film Festival.

As in all previous years, the Sarajevo Film Festival presented the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award. This award honours an individual for exceptional contribution to the affirmation and development of film and support in development of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Continuing the success of last year’s partnership with the Doha Film Institute (DFI), this year the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) will work with Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía(IMCINE) in order to bring Mexican films to the audiences of SFF.