‘Everytime’ in the Narrative Feature Competition and ‘To Hold a Mountain’ in the Documentary Feature Competition were notable winners at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which closed with a screening of the restored version of the Academy Award®-winning film ‘No Man’s Land’ by Danis Tanovic.
Sandra Wollner’s Everytime won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at Sarajevo Film Festival’s star-studded and politically engaged 32nd edition.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi spoke about keeping the gift of everyday observation alive, and resisting media’s manipulation of reality, in a masterclass at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Social media collides with the vulnerability of grief in Slovenian writer-director Ursa Menart’s ‘Everything That’s Wrong with You’, a raw, uneven portrait of a vacation friendship between two troubled young women.
A school trip to Naples stirs up strong emotions in Marine Atlan’s strong feature debut ‘La Gradiva’, the big winner of Cannes’ Critics Week in 2026.
Personal ambition, pill dependency and a chaotic family life make for compelling drama in Rabbit Don’t Run, a drama about a provincial footballer clinging onto a dying career.
Croatian film-maker Dragana Jurišic returns to the Wild East of her war-torn childhood in ‘The Balkan Cowboy’, a charmingly quirky and deeply personal love letter to a lost pioneer of low-budget westerns.
Dear Orchid is a poetic and diaristic documentary, using the perspective of a child to ruminate on fleeing the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.
Less is enough in Zvonimir Juric’s portrait of a family tying up an inheritance on a stormy island, a quiet, modest portrait with a profound payoff.
Florin Serban’s Locarno winner ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ deftly dismantles the reign of amoral masculinity over a Romanian town with the controlled, deliberate precision of a surgical cut.
As unflinchingly personal as it is urgently political, Damir Markovina’s documentary debut ‘We Shall Live Together’ reckons with the ongoing tension of his family’s exile from Mostar in the 90s.
A callous scam upends an ageing couple’s dream vacation in Kristina and Petar Valchanov’s acerbic, black-humoured social satire with a surprising heart.
The market side of Sarajevo 2026 is focusing on Switzerland, in a year that promises to be major for the country and its films.
Respected cinematographer Ivan Markovic’s feature debut is a resplendent, rain-washed mood portrait of haves and have-nots in an unfinished luxury housing complex in Cambodia.
Two Bedouin tribes on the Lebanon-Syria border fall out in Rakan Mayasi’s ominous, exquisitely mesmeric feature debut ‘Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep’, which reveals a major directorial voice.
Balkan writer-director Dina Duma’s prize-winning second feature ‘Skateboarding is Not for Girls’ wraps a quietly angry teen-girl empowerment message inside sweet but familiar coming-of-age tropes.