In previous years, Sarajevo Film Festival has hosted and presented retrospectives of the world’s most prominent authors, to a superb response of both the audience and the media.
Guests of the Sarajevo Film Festival Tribute To Programme were:
• Steve Buscemi 2000
• Mike Leigh 2001
• Stephen Frears 2002
• Peter Mullan 2003
• Dušan Makavejev and Gaspar Noe 2004
• Alexander Payne 2005
• Abel Ferrara and Béla Tarr 2006
• Tsai-ming Liang and Ulrich Seidl 2007
• Todd Haynes 2008
• Jia Zhang-ke 2009
• Bruno Dumont 2010
• Lucrecia Martel 2011
• Todd Solondz 2012
• Cristi Puiu 2013
• Michael Winterbottom 2014
• Atom Egoyan and Brillante Mendoza 2015
• Amat Escalante 2016
• Joshua Oppenheimer and Oliver Stone 2017
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2018
• Pawel Pawlikowski 2019
• Michel Franco 2020
• Wim Wenders 2021
• Sergei Loznitsa 2022
