Sarajevo Film Festival
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The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier film festival in the Balkans. It was founded in 1995 and brings international and local celebrities to Sarajevo every year. It is held in August and shows feature and short films. The current director is Mirsad Purivatra. 2004 will be the ten-year anniversary of the film festival. The winner of the Sarajevo Film Festival receives a €15,000 grand prize, and the recipient of the Best Short Film award gets €2000 winnings.
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[edit] History
The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from October 25 to November 5, 1995. At that time, the siege of Sarajevo was still going on, and attendance projections were very low. However, a surprising 15,000 people came to see the films, of which there were 37 from 15 different countries. The festival grew at a remarkable pace, attracting tens of thousands of people a year, as well as foreign celebrities such as U2's Bono, and Willem Dafoe. By 2001, the European Film Association made the Sarajevo Film Festival one of the eleven festivals that could nominate a film for the award of "Europe's Best Short Film". In 2002, the Festival's choice of local Ahmed Imamovic's 10 Minuta went on to win it all. The 2001 winner of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Danis Tanović's No Man's Land, went on to win an Oscar in the US. In 2004, the Best Movie Award was named "The Heart of Sarajevo".
[edit] Features
- Children's Program
- New Currents
- New Currents shorts
- Open Air
- Panorama
- Panorama Documentaries
- Regional Program (feature, short documentary)
[edit] Winners
- Best Film
- 1996 Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier
- 1997 Ma Vie en Rose - Alain Berliner
- 1998 Seul contre tous - Gaspar Noé
- 1999 December 1-31 - Jan Peters
- 2000 Topsy Turvy - Mike Leigh, Yi Yi: A One and a Two - Edward Yang
- 2001 No Man's Land - Danis Tanović
- 2002 Sabado - Juana Villeges
- 2003 Gori Vatra - Pjer Žalica
- 2004 Mila of Mars - Zornitsa Sophie
- Honorable Mention
- 1996 Trees Lounge - Steve Buscemi, Drifting Clouds - Aki Kaurismäki
- 1997 ??? - ???
- 1998 Made in Bosnia - various filmmakers
- 1999 Adrian - Mia Weiss
- 2000 Set Me Free - Lee Pool, The Terrorist - Santosh Sivan
- 2001 Monsieur William, Les Traces D'Une Vie Possible - Denis Gaubert
- 2002 ???
- 2003 Rezervni Deli - Damjan Kozole, Mali Svet - Milos Radović
- 2004 Ta divna splitska noć - Arsen Anton Ostojić
- Public Award
- 1998 Remonieur des Lilas - Cedric Klapisch
- 1999 Models - Ulrich Seidl
- 2000 The Junction - Ursula Urbani
- 2001 No man's land - Danis Tanović
- 2002 Lilo & Stitch - Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders
- 2003 Gori Vatra - Pjer Žalica
- 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
- Best Short Film
- 2001 Copy Shop - Virgil Widrich
- 2002 10 Minuta - Ahmed Imamović
- 2003 Le Portefeuille - Vincent Bierrewaerts
- 2004 Me and Space - Hajo Schomerus
[edit] Noteworthy guests and participants
- Bono
- Steve Buscemi
- Leos Carax
- Kaitlin Cartlidge
- Coolio
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Willem Dafoe
- Gérard Depardieu
- Stephen Frears
- Hugh Hudson
- Mike Leigh
- John Malkovich
- Marco Mueller
- Peter Mullan
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Susan Sontag
- Danis Tanović
