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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