Sarajevo 2023

The Happiest Man in the World

Aug 21, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s surrealistic vision of a Sarajevo dating event turned lab for reconciliation is refreshing and offbeat in grappling with the Siege’s legacy.

The 29th Sarajevo Film Festival Awards

Aug 19, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2023

Elene Naveriani’s wry celebration of feminist non-conformity from Georgia took topped the awards at Sarajevo.

Fairy Garden

Aug 17, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Gergo Somogyvari’s humanistic doc portrait of life in the woods on Budapest’s margins spotlights the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people and the homeless by Orban’s government.

Sarajevo 2023: The Verdict

Aug 17, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Emotional highs and lows marked a politically charged Sarajevo edition that saw one day cancelled in solidarity against gender-based violence.

Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer

Aug 17, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2023

The quietude of a bucolic life, and the deep wordless bonds between a mother and son, lie at the heart of Giorgi Parkosadze’s serene doc, ‘Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer.’

What’s to be Done?

Aug 16, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Croatian documentary maker Goran Devic charts a decade-long battle for workers’ rights in ‘What’s to be Done?’, an engaging blend of reportage and artfully meta touches.

Europa

Aug 16, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Sudabeh Mortezai’s caustic, unique take on a shadowy corporation expanding into Albania is part neo-colonial satire, part dystopian thriller.

Sarajevo Film Festival Halts Schedule, Discusses Femicide

Aug 16, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Sarajevo Film Festival shut down its Wednesday schedule to honour a National Day of Mourning after a femicide in Gradacac and protests.

“Cinema can change things”: an interview with ‘Between Revolutions’ director Vlad Petri

Aug 16, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

The prize-winning Romanian director discusses his found-footage docu-fiction hybrid film ‘Between Revolutions’, clandestine screenings in Iran, and the political power of cinema.

Fran and Verka; or A Usual Day in an Abandoned Village

Aug 16, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023, Verdict Shorts

The long fingers of the Kosovo War reach into the present in Sovran Nrecaj’s patient and stark documentary about Fran and Verka’s isolated life in an abandoned village.

Awards Corner

Sarajevo 2023