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Sarajevo Film Festival Reveals Lineup for 30th Edition, Featuring Five World Premieres

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Sarajevo Film Festival Reveals Lineup for 30th Edition, Featuring Five World Premieres

 

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 30th edition, taking place from August 16-23. This year’s festival features four competition sections, including five world premieres among the feature films.

In the Feature Film Competition, eight films will compete, including the world premiere of Vuk Rsumovic’s Dwelling Among The Gods. The film tells the story of a young Afghan migrant woman in Belgrade who learns that her brother has drowned and decides to bury him under her full name. This film is a co-production between Serbia’s BaBoon Production, Croatia’s Kinorama, and Italy’s Nightswim.

Additionally, Mirjana Karanovic’s Mother Mara will have its world premiere out of competition. It explores a woman’s journey to cope with the loss of her only son through a relationship with a younger man.

The Documentary Film programme includes 21 titles, with 13 being feature-length films. Two of these are world premieres: Lesia Diak’s Dad’s Lullaby, which won the Docu Talent Award at the 2022 Sarajevo CineLink Industry Days, and Anna Rubi’s Your Life Without Me, which focuses on elderly caregivers in Hungary fighting for their disabled children.

This year, the festival received 940 submissions, a slight increase from last year, including 190 fiction features and 280 documentary features. Fifteen additional films for the In Focus and Open Air programmes will be announced in the coming weeks.

Elma Tataragic, programmer of the feature film competition, described the selection as a “polyphony of different and diverse perspectives on war, history, love, betrayal, and the human need for belonging.”

The Sarajevo Competition programme features films from countries including Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Festival director Jovan Marjanovic highlighted the festival’s role in providing insight into these often-overlooked regions.

Paul Schrader will chair the five-person feature film jury, while the documentary film jury includes Mandy Chang, founder of Undeniable, Marek Hovorka, founder and director of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, and Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai.

The festival will open with the world premiere of Danis Tanovic’s My Late Summer.

Sarajevo 2024 Lineup

Feature Competition:

  • Dwelling Among The Gods (Ser-It-Cro) dir. Vuk Rsumovic
  • Family Therapy (Slovenia-It-Cro-Nor-Ser) dir. Sonja Prosenc
  • Arcadia (Gr-Bul) dir. Yorgos Zois
  • Holy Week (Rom-Switz) dir. Andrei Cohn
  • The Editorial Office (Ukr-Ger-Slovakia-Czechia) dir. Roman Bondarchuk
  • The Village Next To Paradise (Austria-Fr-Ger-Som) dir. Mo Harawe
  • Three Kilometres To The End Of The World (Rom) dir. Emanuel Parvu
  • Holy Electricity (Geo-Neth) dir. Tato Koteshivili
  • Mother Mara (Ser-Slovenia-Switz-Mont-Bos&Her) dir. Mirjana Karanovic – Out of Competition

Documentary Competition:

  • Dad’s Lullaby (Ukr-Rom-Cro) dir. Lesia Diak
  • Your Life Without Me (Hun-Swe) dir. Anna Rubi
  • Loxy (Gr) dirs. Dimitris Zahos, Thanasis Kafetzis
  • Our Children (Cro) dir. Silvestar Kolbas
  • Alice On & Off (Rom) dir. Isabela Tent
  • A Picture To Remember (Ukr-Fr-Ger) dir. Olga Chernykh
  • Cent’anni (Slovenia-It-Pol-Ser-Austria) dir. Maja Prelog
  • Fragments Of Ice (Ukr-Nor) dir. Maria Stoianova
  • …Ned, Tassot, Yossot (Austria) dir. Brigitte Welch
  • Pavilion 6 (Cro) dir. Goran Devic
  • At The Door Of The House Who Will Come Knocking (Ser-Bos&Her-Bel) dir. Maja Novakovic
  • Praslovan (Slovenia-Cro) dir. Slobodan Maksimovic – Out of Competition
  • Bekim Fehmiu (Alb) dir. Valmir Tertini – Out of Competition

 

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Danis Tanovic’s ‘My Late Summer’ to Open 30th Sarajevo Film Festival

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Danis Tanovic’s “My Late Summer” to Open 30th Sarajevo Film Festival

 

The 30th Sarajevo Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Danis Tanovic’s “My Late Summer” on Friday, August 16. The film, a comedy-drama, centers around a young woman navigating family inheritance issues on a remote island.

The premiere will take place simultaneously at the National Theatre and three open-air cinemas in Sarajevo, kicking off satellite screenings in Mostar and Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. “My Late Summer” was produced by Croatia’s Propeler Film, co-produced by Romania’s Tangaj Production, and supported by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Obala Art Centar, which organizes the festival, along with Serbia’s Bas Celik and Slovenia’s Tramal Films.

Filmed in summer 2023, the movie is produced by Miha Cernec, Jovan Marjanovic (Sarajevo festival director), Boris T. Matic, Lana Matic, and Jelena Mitrovic, with executive producers Srdan Golubovic, Mirsad Purivatra, Anamari Antoci, and Jozko Rutar. The cast features Anja Matkovic, Uliks Fehmiu, Goran Navojec, and Mario Knezovic.

Danis Tanovic, known for his award-winning films like “No Man’s Land,” which won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, previously opened the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2021 with “Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair.” He has also received accolades such as the Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale for “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker” (2013) and “Death in Sarajevo” (2016), and the Sarajevo Film Festival’s honorary Heart of Sarajevo award in 2014.

The 30th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival will run from August 16-23, showcasing a diverse range of films and celebrating cinematic excellence.

 

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Beetlejuice Sequel to Premiere at Venice Film Festival

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Beetlejuice Sequel to Premiere at Venice Film Festival

 

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s highly anticipated sequel to his 1988 classic Beetlejuice, has been chosen as the opening film for the Venice Film Festival. This event will mark the world premiere of the film, reuniting original stars Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder with director Burton.

Festival director Alberto Barbera praised the film, stating that it “marks the long-awaited return of one of the most iconic characters of Tim Burton’s cinema, but also the happy confirmation of the extraordinary visionary talent and the masterly realization of one of the most fascinating auteurs of his time.”

Burton expressed his excitement, saying, “It means a lot to me to have the world premiere of this film at the Venice Film Festival.”

Set 36 years after the events of the original movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice introduces Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder’s character Lydia Deetz. Keaton reprises his role as the “bio-exorcist” Beetlejuice, with Monica Bellucci joining the cast as his ex-wife Delores. The film is written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with story credits to Gough, Millar, and Seth Grahame-Smith.

The sequel has been in development for many years, with various versions considered since the late 1980s. One early idea by Burton was Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, which featured the title character entering a surf contest.

The Venice Film Festival, known for its prestigious opening slot, runs from 28 August to 7 September. This position is highly coveted on the festival circuit, with past openers such as La La Land and Birdman achieving significant awards success.

 

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Adam Elliott’s ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Premieres at Annecy Animation Film Festival

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Adam Elliott’s ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Premieres at Annecy Animation Film Festival

Like Britain’s Nick Park at Aardman, Australian stop-motion filmmaker Adam Elliott demonstrates a natural talent for screenwriting comedy, seamlessly blending it with the simplicity and directness of his animation style. This unique fusion creates a distinctive sense of lovability and pathos, showcasing his instinct for the underdog and the outsider. Elliott’s work often makes mainstream animation appear more conventional in comparison. His 2003 short “Harvie Krumpet” won an Oscar, and he recently premiered his most ambitious feature-length work yet at the Annecy animation film festival. The film is charming and beguiling, incorporating strong personal and autobiographical elements, and features A-list voice talent.

Sarah Snook voices Grace Pudel, a desperately lonely middle-aged woman and reclusive hoarder surrounded by chaos and snail memorabilia. The film explores her life and troubled childhood. Grace is very close to her twin brother, Gilbert (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who was a pyromaniac as a child because he wanted to be a fire-breathing street entertainer in Paris, inspired by their father, a stop-motion animator. When they become orphans, the state system separates them, placing them on opposite sides of Australia.

Gilbert ends up with a cultish religious foster family who run a fruit business and insist on worshipping the “baby Jesus.” Grace is placed with an upbeat Canberra couple addicted to self-help books and swinging, leaving her alone in the evenings. Her only friend is Pinky, an eccentric old lady voiced by Jacki Weaver, who becomes a central figure in Grace’s life. Pinky smells of ginger and secondhand shops and wears colorful clothes and giant glasses, reminiscent of a combination of Iris Apfel and The Incredibles’ Edna Mode. Pinky plays a crucial role as Grace confronts her destiny and her lifelong fetish for snails.

“Memoir of a Snail” combines ingenuousness and innocence with a family-entertainment approachability that masks a strange intensity. The film hints at real adult pain and anger through its personal narrative touches, with a surprising narrative pivot at the end adding to its poignancy. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable watch, featuring a reference to the BBC TV comedy classic “The Two Ronnies,” which was hugely popular in Australia.

“Memoir of a Snail” screened at the Annecy animation film festival.

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