Sarajevo 2025: The Awards
Stefan Dordevic’s sensitive doc portrait of grief won top honors at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Sarajevo 2025
Sarajevo 2025: The Verdict
Wind, Talk to Me was named Best Feature at Sarajevo Film Festival’s political and star-studded 31st edition.
Phantoms of July
Director Julian Radlmaier’s charming small-town ensemble comedy ‘Phantoms of July’ finds poetry, political unease and romantic yearning at the heart of modern Europe.
CineLink Winners at Sarajevo 2025
A rich array of awards was distributed to film projects at the 23rd CineLink Industry Days in Sarajevo.
The Orchards
Antoine Chapon repurposes eerie architectural animations in ‘The Orchards,’ a paean to a lost Damascus community that attempts to resist its eradication by a vindictive regime.
Cuba & Alaska
In Yegor Troyanovsky’s warmly personal, bittersweet doc ‘Cuba & Alaska’, we follow a volunteer combat medic duo of two best friends on and off Ukraine’s wartime roads.
9-Month Contract
Shocking but sensitively handled, Ketevan Vashagashvili’s debut doc ‘9-Month Contract’ exposes exploitative practices in Georgian surrogacy agencies through one woman’s risky reality.
I Believe the Portrait Saved Me
The documentary vignette ‘I Believe the Portrait Saved Me’ uses a deeply personal story to explore the power of creativity and evoke the teetering knife edge of survival.
Sarajevo Honoree Willem Dafoe on David Lynch, Scorsese and More
The prolific American actor discussed working with unconventional arthouse giants, and the view from atop one of Scorsese’s most controversial scenes.
Ray Winstone Honored with the Heart of Sarajevo
.A more prolific and eclectic actor is hard to find: Ray Winstone adds another feather to his cap with Sarajevo Film Festival’s highest award.
Two Prosecutors
Sergei Loznitsa’s masterfully controlled, mordantly absurd drama on the fate of a just idealist in Stalin’s USSR is a timely warning on the workings of state terror.
In Hell with Ivo
Director Kristina Nikolova’s lively documentary portrait of Bulgarian queer musician and performance artist Ivo Dimchev, ‘In Hell with Ivo’, is compelling but frustratingly light on detail.
Little Trouble Girls
Anchored by a wonderful performance from newcomer Jara Sofija Ostan, Urska Djukic’s feature debut Little Trouble Girls is a refreshing and enigmatic take on sexual awakening.
Paolo Sorrentino, the Self-Effacing Star Director
The man behind ‘The Consequences of Love’ and ‘The Hand of God’ is among the guests of honor at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
How Come It’s All Green Out Here?
Nikola Lezaic melts the lines between fiction and family memory in a gently unusual but ultimately frustrating drama about a road trip to Dalmatia for a re-burial.
God Will Not Help
A woman’s strange arrival upends order in a Croatian shepherd clan in Hana Jusic’s powerful, brooding period drama.
Wish You Were Ear
Mirjana Balogh’s affirming animation, Wish You Were Ear, finds solace in a dystopian future where ending a relationship requires the physical swapping of a body part.
Sarajevo 2025: The Heart of the Matter
The 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival promises to be yet another rich and layered showcase of contemporary cinema.
White Snail
A morgue in Belarus is the unlikely setting for new hope to seed in an unsettling, unusual drama from Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter.
Sorella di Clausura
In Ivana Mladenovic’s satirical, chaotic anti-romance, an obsessed fan in a kitsch-crammed Romania goes to extreme lengths to pursue a Balkan music star.
Desire Lines
Dane Komljen’s spectral and shape-lifting landscape of bodies and the paranoia of uncertain identity is a mesmerising, unsettling gem.
The Boy from the River Drina
Past traumas are at the center of Zijad Ibrahimovic’s documentary ‘The Boy from the River Drina’, screened in Locarno’s Panorama Suisse section.