The world premiere of the film Focus, Grandma (Koncentrisi se, baba) by Bosnian director Pjer Žalica will open the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival which will be held from August 14th to 21st, 2020.
Sarajevo Film Festival
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World Premiere of Bosnian Film FOCUS, GRANDMA to Open Sarajevo Film Festival
Focus, Grandma (Koncentrisi se, baba) by Bosnian director Pjer Žalica
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Tim Roth Receives Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at Sarajevo Film Festival
British actor Tim Roth was lauded with the honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his ‘exceptional contribution to the art of film.’
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Actress Isabelle Huppert to be Honored at Sarajevo Film Festival
Isabelle Huppert French actress Isabelle Huppert will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the art of film.
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Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu will Receive Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at Sarajevo Film Festival
Alejandro González Iñarritu Mexican director, producer and screenwriter Alejandro G. Iñárritu and winner of two consecutive Best Director Oscar awards for his films THE REVENANT and BIRDMAN will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 25th annual Sarajevo Film Festival. The Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award will be given in recognition for his exceptional contribution to the art of film.
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World Premiere of THE SON by Bosnian director Ines Tanović to Open 25th Sarajevo Film Festival
THE SON by Ines Tanović The world premiere of Bosnian director Ines Tanović’s The Son starring Dino Bajrović, Snežana Bogdanović, Uliks Fehmiu, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Lidija Kordić, Lazar Dragojević, Kemal Rizvanović, Enes Kozličić, Ermin Bravo, Maja Izetbegović, Jernej Kogovsek, Izudin Bajrović, Admir Glamočak, will open the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival on August 16.
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53 Films to Compete at 25th Sarajevo Film Festival
TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE directed by Ena Sendijarević 53 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival, to be held from August 16 to 23 under the patronage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).. The Festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will feature 23 world, 4 international, 24 regional and 2 Bosnian-Herzegovinian premieres. 25th Sarajevo Film Festival
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THE SQUARE Director Ruben Östlund to Chair 25th Sarajevo Film Festival Jury
Ruben Östlund The Sarajevo Film Festival has screened several of Swedish director and Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s films throughout his career, including THE SQUARE at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival (2017), FORCE MAJEURE at the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (2014) and PLAY at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival (2011). Östlund returns to preside over the Competition Program – Feature Film Jury at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival.
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COLD WAR Director Pawel Pawlikowski to Receive Honorary Award at Sarajevo Film Festival
Pawel Pawlikowski Director Pawel Pawlikowski will be presented with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, for his outstanding contribution to the art of film and his lasting friendship with the city of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the opening ceremony of the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival on August 16.
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Sarajevo Film Festival Announces 2018 Feature Film Competition Program Lineup
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The Sarajevo Film Festival announced the lineup of its 2018 Feature Film Competition Program. The lineup includes the World Premieres of ALL ALONE, LOVE 1. DOG, ONE AND A HALF PRINCE and THE PIGEON THIEVES.
WORLD PREMIERES
ALL ALONE / SAM SAMCAT Croatia, Netherlands, Serbia, Montenegro, B&H, 2018, 88 min. Director: Bobo Jelčić LOVE 1. DOG / DRAGOSTE 1. CÂINE Romania, Poland, 2018, 103 min. Director: Florin Șerban ONE AND A HALF PRINCE / UN PRINȚ ȘI JUMĂTATE Romania, 2018, 103 min. Director: Ana Lungu THE PIGEON THIEVES / GÜVERCIN HIRSIZLARI Turkey, 2018, 82 min. Director: Osman DoğanINTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
MALI Croatia, 2018, 90 min. Director: Antonio NuićREGIONAL PREMIERES
ÁGA Bulgaria, Germany, France, 2018, 96 min. Director: Milko Lazarov HORIZON / HORIZONTI Georgia, Sweden, 2018, 105 min. Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili LEMONADE Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden, 2018, 88 min. Director: Ioana Uricaru ONE DAY / EGY NAP Hungary, 2018, 99 min. Director: Zsófia Szilágyi THE LOAD / TERET Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar, 2018, 98 min. Director: Ognjen Glavonić
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Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR to Open 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival [Trailer]
Cold War by Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival will open the 24th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival on August 10th.
Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris – the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.
Staring in the film are Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar and Cédric Kahn.
A day after the screenings, the festival-goers will have a chance to talk with Pawlikowski within the Festival’s Coffee with… program.
Pawel Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw and left Poland at the age of fourteen first for the UK, Germany and Italy, before finally settling in the UK in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy in London and Oxford.
Pawlikowski started making documentary films for the BBC in the late 1980s. His documentaries, which include FROM MOSCOW TO PIETUSHKI, DOSTOEVSKY’S TRAVELS, SERBIAN EPICS, and TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSKY, have won numerous international awards including an Emmy and the Prix Italia.
In 1998, Pawlikowski moved into fiction with a low budget TV film, Twockers, which was followed by two full-length features, Last Resort and My Summer of Love, both of which he wrote and directed. Both films won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, as well as many others at festivals around the world.
He made The Woman in the Fifth in 2011, and his most recent film, IDA, won the 2015 Foreign Language Academy Award, five European Film Awards, a Bafta and a Goya, among many other prizes. Pawlikowski returned to Poland in 2013 while completing Ida. He currently lives in Warsaw and teaches film direction and writing at the Wajda School.
Pawlikowski visited Sarajevo in 2014 to present his film IDA at the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival, film that won the Oscar for best foreign language film.
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Asghar Farhadi Named Jury President of the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival Competition Program
Iranian writer-director and two times Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, will preside over the Jury of the Competition Program – Feature Film of 24th Sarajevo Film Festival which will be held from August 10 to 17, 2018.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s audience will also have a chance to see Farhadi’s latest film Everybody Knows which premiered in the Competition program of the Cannes Film Festival and opened this year’s Festival. The film starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem will be screened in the Open Air program of the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Dancing In The Dust, which won the Best Actor award and the Russian Society of Film Critics’ Best Film award at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival, as well as the Best Director and the Best Screenplay awards at the 48th Asian Pacific Film Festival. A year later, Farhadi wrote and directed Beautiful City (2003). Farhadi subsequently directed Fireworks Wednesday (2005), followed by About Elly (2007) which simultaneously premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and Fajr Film Festival in Teheran winning the Silver Bear for Best Director and the Crystal Simorgh for Best Directing respectively.
Farhadi then started to write A Separation, which he shot in 2010. It premiered at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival where it picked up the Golden Bear for best film, as well as two Silver Bears, one each for its ensemble of actresses and actors. After it premiered at Berlinale, the film won more than 70 prizes across the globe, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the Cesar for Best Foreign Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A Separation was an international success unprecedented by any Iranian film. The film was released in the United States in December 2011, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign language films in the difficult US marketplace. The same year, Farhadi was named on of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
While A Separation was being screened in different festivals and countries, Farhadi and his family moved to Paris so he could start work on the screenplay of The Past, his first film on a foreign language. The Past was released during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, won the Best Actress Award (Bérénice Bejo) at the Cannes and was nominated for the Golden Globes and the César.
Farhadi returned to Iran in 2015 to shoot The Salesman, which was screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival where Farhadi won the Best Screenplay award, while the lead actor Shahab Hosseini picked up the Best Actor award. For this film, Farhadi won his second Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language.
Several months later, Farhadi started shooting his latest film, Everybody Knows, in Spanish language, for which Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were reunited on screen. The film opened the 71st Cannes Film Festival and was in competition for the festival’s top prize.
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2017 Sarajevo Film Festival Awards: SCARY MOTHER Wins Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film
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The Georgia film Scary Mother directed by Ani Urushadze, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film at the 2017 Sarajevo Film Festival. In the film, Manana, a 50-year-old housewife, struggles with a dilemma – she has to choose between her family life and her passion for writing, which she has repressed for years. She decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing everything to it, both mentally and physically.
The award for Best Documentary went to City of the Sun, directed by Rati Oneli. City of the Sun portrays a few of the remaining inhabitants of the mining city of Chiatura, in western Georgia. Up to 50 percent of the world’s manganese, a vital metal across the globe, used to be mined here, but today, it resembles an apocalyptic ghost town. Music teacher Zurab dismantles ramshackle concrete buildings by hand and sells the iron girders to make some money on the side. Archil still works in the mine, but his real passion is the local amateur theatre group. Despite being malnourished, two young female athletes train stoically for the next Olympic Games.
Actor and comedian John Cleese, best known as a member of the famous comedy team Monty Python’s Flying Circus, received the honorary lifetime achievement award. “I accept it not as a film person, but more as a comedian because I think at this time in world history, we’ve never needed comedians more,” Cleese said.
2017 Sarajevo Film Festival Awards
COMPETITION PROGRAM – FEATURE FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA Georgia, Estonia Director: Ana Urushadze Producer: Lasha Khalvashi HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR EMANUEL PÂRVU MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS / MEDA SAU PARTEA NU PREA FERICITĂ A LUCRURILOR Romania SPECIAL JURY MENTION DIRECTIONS / POSOKI Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia Director: Stephan Komandarev HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS Ornela Kapetani, DAYBREAK / DITA ZË FILL HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR Şerban Pavlu, MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS / MEDA SAU PARTEA NU PREA FERICITĂ A LUCRURILORCOMPETITION PROGRAM – SHORT FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM INTO THE BLUE / U PLAVETNILO Croatia, Slovenia Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €. SPECIAL JURY MENTION SOA Montenegro Director: Dušan Kasalica SPECIAL JURY MENTION COPA – LOCA Greece Director: Christos MassalasCOMPETITION PROGRAM – STUDENT FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST STUDENT FILM CLEAN / ČISTOĆA Bosnia and Herzegovina Director: Neven Samardžić SPECIAL JURY MENTION LJUBLJANA – MÜNCHEN 15:27 / LJUBLJANA – MUNICH 15:27 Slovenia Director: Katarina MoranoCOMPETITION PROGRAM – DOCUMENTARY FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM CITY OF THE SUN / MZIS QALAQI Georgia, USA, Qatar, Netherlands Director: Rati Oneli SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR COMPETITION PROGRAM DOCUMENTARY FILM KINDERS Austria Directors: Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi SPECIAL JURY MENTION HOME / DOM Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Director: Zdenko Jurilj HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD MR. GAY SYRIA Turkey, France, Germany Director: Ayse Toprak Best film of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film dealing with the subject of human rights.HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO
John Cleese, Actor Oliver Stone, DirectorCINELINK AWARDS
CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS EURIMAGES COPRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD HALF-SISTER Director: Damjan Kozole Writers: Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart Producer: Danijel Hočevar Production company: Vertigo Slovenia MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY CINELINK AWARD HOLY EMY Director: Araceli Lemos Writers: Araceli Lemos, Gulia Caruso Producers: Elina Psykou, Giulia Caruso, Konstantinos Vassilaros Production company: StudioBauhaus Greece ARTE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CINELINK AWARD CAT IN THE WALL Directors: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Writer: Mina Mileva Producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Production company: Activist38 Bulgaria SPECIAL MENTION THE GREAT TRAM ROBBERY Director: Slobodan Šijan Writers: Slobodan Šijan, Biljana Maksić, Vladimir Mančić Producer: Marko Paljić Production company: Gargantua Films Serbia MDM EAVE SCHOLARSHIP Konstantinos Vassilaros / HOLY EMYWORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS
TRT AWARD HONEYLAND Directors: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska Producers: Ljubo Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev Production company: Apollo Media, Trice Films Macedonia POST REPUBLIC AWARD THE DAY AFTER I’M GONE Director: Nimrod Eldar Producer: Eitan Mansuri Production company: Spiro Films Ltd Israel RESTART AWARD WHAT COMES AROUND Director: Reem Saleh Producers: Reem Saleh, Konstantina Stavrianou Production company: Mazameer Productions Lebanon / Egypt / QatarCINELINK DRAMA AWARD
FILM CENTER SERBIA CINELINK DRAMA AWARD ALL PANTHERS ARE PINK / SVI PANTERI SU PINK Creators: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović Writer: Dimitrije Vojnov Director: TBC Producers: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović Production company: Unafilm, Art & Popcorn Germany, Serbia SPECIAL MENTION GLYCERIN / GLICERIN Creators: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Writers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Director: Miloš Pušić Producers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Production company: Altertise Serbia23rd SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL PARTNER’S AWARDS
AWARDS OF ASSOCIATION OF BOSNIAN FILMMAKERS
Ivica Matić Award Redžinald Šimek Ivica Matić Award Tomislav Topić Ivica Matić Award Action Group of the Association of Bosnian Filmmakers for copyrights (Pjer Žalica, Jovan Marjanović, Elma Tataragić and Amar Nović) CINEUROPA NAGRADA SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA Director: Ana Urushadze CICAE NAGRADA SON OF SOFIA / O GIOS TIS SOFIAS Director: Elina Psykou THE EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK – TALENT GRANT WHEN PIGS COME Director: Biljana Tutorov SARAJEVO SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR EUROPAN FIOM AWARDS 2017 COPA-LOCA Director: Christos Massalas BEST PACK & PITCH AWARD (TALENTS SARAJEVO PACK & PITCH) SIRIN Senad Šahmanović – invitation for participation in the co-production market CineLink PINKLER Patricia D’Intino The postproduction of sound services in the amount of 4.000 EUR (studio Chelia)BH FILM STUDENT PROGRAMME AWARD
Best B&H Student Film Award TO OUTLIVE A TURTLE / NADŽIVETI KORNJAČU Director: Katarina Živanović Fakultet dramskih i filmskih umjetnosti Bijeljina Special Jury Award CLEAN / ČISTOĆA Director: Neven Samardžić Akademija scenskih umjetnosti Sarajevo Special Mention WINTER SUN / ZIMSKO SUNCE Director: Pilar Palomero Sarajevo Film Academy image via Facebook