Sarajevo Film Festival - The Film Verdict

Their Eyes

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 16, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026, Verdict Shorts |

“We are basically their eyes, but it is like we don’t exist.” These are the...

Objet a

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, Sarajevo 2026 |

Meticulously framed and feverishly psychedelic, Ann Oren’s latest vision of fetishes, fixations and fungi is a stylised, impressively realised erotic adventure.

Black Money for White Nights

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, Sarajevo 2026 |

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.

Dua

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2026 |

Kosovar director Blerta Basholli’s assured second feature is a taut, ‘90s-set coming-of-ager in which a teen’s journey to agency over her body means reckoning with political violence.

Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 14, 2026 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo 2026 |

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.

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Their Eyes

Objet a

Black Money for White Nights

Dua

Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep