Sarajevo

Skill Issue

Aug 23, 2024 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2024

Teens scrutinise each other on a hot summer’s day at the river and drift off into the wilderness in this unique, mysterious German coming-of-ager.

Holy Electricity director Tato Kotetishvili in Sarajevo: “When you’re open to chance, the universe gives you surprises”

Aug 22, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2024

Fresh from awards in Locarno, Georgian director Tato Kotetishvili spoke about integrating reality and trusting in magic with debut feature Holy Electricity.

John Turturro in Sarajevo: “As you can see, I’m a very inhibited actor.”

Aug 21, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2024

Beloved American actor John Turturro spoke of depicting eccentrics, early typecasting, and the realities of mental health care to a rapt masterclass audience in Sarajevo.

A Fidai Film

Aug 19, 2024 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2024

Kamal Aljafari reclaims and re-envisages looted images from Beirut’s Palestine Research Centre in his moving and enigmatic intervention into the territory of memories.

Holy Week

Aug 19, 2024 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2024

Andrei Cohn’s stark and brutal historical drama on the cycle of bloodshed in nineteenth-century Romania is a resonant study of how hatred is spawned.

Toxic

Aug 17, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024, Sarajevo

Lithuanian teens pin hope on an exploitative modelling school as a way out of their dead-end town in Saule Bliuvaite’s acerbic, striking coming-of-ager.

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.

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.

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.

Awards Corner

Sarajevo