Few weeks before the opening of its 21st edition, the
Sarajevo Film Festival unveiled a programme filled with international and regional titles, to be screened in its competition and non-competition sections.
With a rich Industry Section for beginners or already established professionals and its annual sidebar events, from July 14 to 22, the festival invites audiences and the film industry in the region΄s most significant meeting.
The
Competition Programme – Feature Film 2015 will screen the latest films of well-known Balkan filmmakers, such as
Ines Tanovic΄s debut feature film,
Our Everyday Life. The section includes other 5 feature debuts, while Tanvovic΄s film comes as a world premiere, along with
Entanglement, by
Tunç Davut, from Turkey.
In the words of festival programmer,
Elma Tataragic, “By offering two world premieres, as well as one international and seven regional, this year’s Competition Program also offers a proof of the supremacy and strength of the regional cinema. The selected films are strong, intelligent, multilayered and brave; the stories they tell are exciting and there is no room for doubt that the audience will recognize their value.”
Yorgos Lanthimos΄ latest opus
The Lobster, will be screening at the out of competition
Kinoscope programme along with films from directors such as Shinya Tsukamoto, Christian Petzold, Jafar Panahi and Takashi Miike.
Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Balkan films and co-productions at the Competition Programme – Feature Film 2015
World Premieres
International Premiere
Regional Premieres
Chuck Norris vs Communism by Ilinca Calugareanu
With 23 international films, Sarajevo΄s Competition Programme – Documentary Film 2015 will be screening documentaries not yet seen in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the region. The programme also includes a number of world and international premieres. Let΄s have a look at the Balkan docs featuring in the section:
World Premieres
International Premieres
Regional Premieres
The section programmer
Rada Šešić commented: “It is interesting that in our competition, we have shoulder to shoulder debuts, even two student films, next to the works of well established and esteemed documentary practitioners. By exploring interesting stories, that are well researched, with incredible access to the strong characters, they are capturing the Zeitgeist with often deeply personal viewpoints and well articulated cinematic language.”
Sivas by Kaan Müjdeci
The Competition Programme – Short Film 2015 on the other side, has included six regional premieres, as well as one international and three world premieres.
World Premieres
International Premiere
Regional Premieres
Six Balkan titles from different genres and styles that have left a mark on the world and regional cinema in the past 12 months, plus one Austrian film, compose this year΄s In Focus 2015 programme:
Goodnight Mommy by Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz (Austria, 2014)
