SARAJEVO 2022 - The Film Verdict

Sarajevo Film Festival 2022: The Verdict

August 20, 2022 di Stephen Dalton

The Balkan region’s prime cinematic gathering bounced back from pandemic shutdown with a strong film program, starry guests and plenty of party attitude.

Sarajevo 2022: The Awards

August 20, 2022 di Deborah Young

Croatian director and actor Juraj Lerotic was the big winner at Sarajevo, taking home both the Best Film and Best Actor prizes for his sensitive and devastating feature ‘Safe Place’.

The Eclipse

August 18, 2022 di Stephen Dalton

The past is a foreign country full of shadowy horrors in ‘The Eclipse’, Serbian director Nataša Urban’s prize-winning documentary about unreliable memory and collective amnesia.

Six Weeks

August 17, 2022 di Stephen Dalton

A rebellious teenage mother gives her newborn baby daughter up for adoption in Noemi Veronika Szakonyi’s emotionally raw, elegantly shot drama ‘Six Weeks’.

Riders

August 16, 2022 di Stephen Dalton

Two unlikely Balkan bikers and a Slavic Pixie Dream Girl share an eventful road trip in ‘Riders’, director Dominik Mencej’s slight but sweet semi-homage to ‘Easy Rider’.

Safe Place

August 15, 2022 di Carmen Gray

Raw, authentic emotion and inventive lyricism combine in Juraj Lerotic’s sensitive, devastating reckoning with an acute mental health crisis in the family.