Sarajevo 2023

Bottlemen

by Stephen Dalton | Aug 15, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Director Nemanja Vojinovic’s visually striking documentary ‘Bottlemen’ finds poetry and beauty among the workers scrabbling to make a living from a giant Serbian trash mountain.

Silence of Reason

by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Kumjana Novakova masterfully contextualises archival testimony in her sensitive, formally inventive reckoning with violence against women as a weapon of the Bosnian War.

Heart of Sarajevo honoree Mark Cousins on the cities that shaped him

by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo 2023

Belfast-born documentarian Mark Cousins, returning to Sarajevo after 29 years, gave a masterclass on his career and creative inspirations.

From the Corner of My Eyes

by Ben Nicholson | Aug 15, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2023, Verdict Shorts

Domonkos Erhardt’s student short ‘From the Corner of My Eyes’ uses the malleability of the animated image to great effect to capture a miniature moment of connection.

Medium

by Ben Nicholson | Aug 14, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2023

With ‘Medium’, Greek filmmaker Christina Ioakeimidi adapts Giorgos Sibardis’ novel about a 16-year-old girl coming of age across a scorching Athens summer. Premiered in Sarajevo International Film Festival

Lost Children

by Ben Nicholson | Aug 14, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2023, Verdict Shorts

With ‘Lost Children’ Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier have created an aching, poignant and keenly observed depiction of a dislocated father-daughter relationship, premiered in Sarajevo International Film Festival,

The Permanent Picture

by Carmen Gray | Aug 14, 2023 | Festivals, Locarno 2023, Sarajevo 2023

An elegant, playful exploration of the consolatory but deceptive nature of image-making across generations, from Catalan director-to-watch Laura Ferres is showing in Sarajevo International Film Festival,

Kudos to Lynne Ramsay

by Stephen Dalton | Aug 14, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Globally feted Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay has carved a slender but unique body of work shaped by uncompromising attitude and aesthetic flair.

“I wish I was hated by smarter people”: an interview with feminist psycho-horror director Jennifer Reeder

by Stephen Dalton | Aug 13, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023

Jennifer Reeder discusses her new mind-bending avant-horror film ‘Perpetrator’, kick-ass gender-queer heroines, and the subversively surreal power of genre cinema. Showing in Sarajevo International Film Festival

Charlie Kaufman and the Heart of Sarajevo

by TheFilmVerdict | Aug 13, 2023 | Sarajevo 2023, Spotlight

Kaufman’s style could be deemed ‘screwball,’ could be deemed ‘surreality,’ and should probably be called ‘Screw Reality’. He is honored in Sarajevo International Film Festival

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