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Jury of the Competition Programme – Feature Film of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival
The Jury of the Competition Programme – Feature Film at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival will include director and writer Sergei Loznitsa (President), actor Dragan Mićanović, director, writer and actor Emanuel Pârvu, director and writer Ena Sendijarević, and festival director Tricia Tuttle.
Loznitsa joins a rich constellation of film auteurs who have previously presided over the Sarajevo Film Festival Jury in past editions: Mike Leigh (2004), Miki Manojlović (2005), Jasmila Žbanić (2006), Jeremy Irons (2007), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008), Mirjana Karanović (2009), Cristi Puiu (2010), Ari Folman (2011), Kornél Mundruczó (2012), Danis Tanović (2013), Béla Tarr (2014), Călin Peter Netzer (2015), Elia Suleiman (2016), Michel Franco (2017), Asghar Farhadi (2018), Ruben Östlund (2019), Michel Hazanavicius (2020), Jasna Đuričić (2021), Sebastian Meise (2022), Mia Wasikowska (2023), and Paul Schrader (2024).
The Jury will have the honour of awarding the Heart of Sarajevo Awards in the Competition Programme – Feature Film.
The winners will be announced on Friday, August 22 at the Awards Ceremony.
President of Jury
Sergei Loznitsa
Director and writer, Ukraine
Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovitchi, USSR (now Belarus) and grew up in Kiev, Ukraine, graduating from the Kiev Polytechnic in Applied Mathematics in 1987. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in AI research. In 1997, Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow.
Loznitsa has been making films since 1996, and has directed 28 award-winning documentaries and 5 fiction films. His feature debut “My Joy” (2010) premiered in main competition in Cannes. His films have been recognized with major awards including the FIPRESCI prize at the Festival de Cannes for “In the Fog” in 2012, the Best Director Prize of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section for his feature film “Donbass” in 2018 among many others.
In 2013 Sergei Loznitsa founded the film production company ATOMS & VOID. Based in Europe since 2001, he continues to work on both documentary and fiction projects.
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film, a retrospective of Sergei Loznitsa’s work was presented at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival (2022), where he received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo.
Dragan Mićanović
Actor, Serbia
Dragan Mićanović is a Serbian actor known for his work in film, theatre, and television. A graduate of the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts, he gained recognition through numerous film and television roles, such as the domestic hit “Barking at the Stars” (1998), and the international productions “Coriolanus” (2011) and “Rocknrolla” (2008).
He has been a prominent member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre since 1993. Notably, he played Fortinbras in the Globe Theatre’s production of “Hamlet” in London.
Recent highlights include his role as Zoran Đinđić in “Operation Sabre” (2024), which won Best Ensemble at Canneseries, and as Tomo Buzov in “A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” (2024), winner of the Palme d’Or for Best Short and an Oscar® nominee. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious acting awards.
Emanuel Pârvu
Director, writer and actor, Romania
Filmmaker and actor, Emanuel Pârvu is co-founding professor (PhD) of Romania’s first Film Acting graduate program at Ovidius University.
His films explore familial love (“Meda or The not so bright side of things”, “Mikado”). “Three Kilometers to the End of the World” premiered at Cannes 2024 in Competition, received the Queer Palm, and was Romania’s Oscar® entry. The film won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Feature Film at the Sarajevo Film Festival (2024), as well as the Best Director award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
He has acted in more than 30 films, collaborating with key Romanian New Wave directors.
Ena Sendijarević
Director and writer, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Netherlands
Ena Sendijarević is a Bosnian-Dutch writer and director. She studied Film Theory in Amsterdam and Berlin before graduating from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2014.
Her debut feature “Take Me Somewhere Nice” (2019) was selected for the ACID programme at the Cannes Film Festival and won awards including the Special Jury Award at IFFR and the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Feature Film at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Her short film “Import” (2016) premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and was the Dutch entry for the Academy Awards.
Her second feature “Sweet Dreams” (2023) premiered in competition at Locarno, where it won the Pardo for Best Performance. The film was the Dutch submission for the 2024 Academy Awards.
In the same year, she was named one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch.
Tricia Tuttle
Festival director, USA
Since April 2024, Tricia Tuttle has been responsible for the creative direction and management of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Tricia has held senior roles at the British Film Institute (BFI), BAFTA, and the National Film and Television School (NFTS). Before joining Berlinale, she led the Directing Fiction program at NFTS and previously she was at the BFI for a decade, where she became Festivals Director, managing the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.
Tricia has been featured in Variety’s International Women’s Impact Report and Variety500.
She holds an MA in Film Studies from BFI and Birkbeck and a dual BA in Literature and Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from 15 to 22 August 2025.