Sarajevo Film Festival
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| Location | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Language | International |
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The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in the Balkans, and is one of the largest in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo, 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.
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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] Sarajevo Talent Campus
Launched in 2007 in co-operation with the Berlin International Film Festival and the Berlinale Talent Campus, Sarajevo Talent Camput is an educational and networking platform for emerging film talents from South-Eastern European region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey).
[edit] Award Winners
[edit] Best Film
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September 10.-18. |
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Serge Toubiana |
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September 2.-10. |
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Howard Feinstein, Michèle Levieux, Otto Reiter |
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August 21.-30. |
(Seul contre tous) |
 Gaspar Noé |
Laurent Aknin, Mark Duursma, Marina Kostova, Lidija Maslova, Giovanni Valeri |
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August 20.-29. |
(Dezember, 1-31) |
 Jan Peters |
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Laurent Aknin, Kati Sinisalo, Rada Šešić, Sheila Johnston |
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August 18.-26. |
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Nicolas Winding Refn |
Edda Bauer, Borislav Kolev, Jean-Max Méjean [1] |
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August 17.-25. |
(Ničija zemlja) |
 Danis Tanović |
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August 16.-24. |
(Sábado) |
 Juan Villegas |
Jean-Pierre Rehm, Damjan Kozole, Haris Pašović |
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August 15.-23. |
(Gori vatra) |
Pjer Žalica |
Dušan Makavejev, Fatmir Koçi, Nina Violić [2] |
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August 20.-28. |
(Mila ot Mars) |
 Zornitsa Sofia |
Diana Dumbrava, Pjer Žalica [3] |
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August 19.-27. |
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Georgi Djulgerov |
Jessica Hausner, Vesela Kazakova, Isaac Julien [4] |
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August 18.-28. |
(Das Fräulein) |
 Andrea Štaka |
Jan Cvitković, Kim Dong-ho, Jérôme Paillard [5] |
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August 17.-25. |
(Takva) |
 Özer Kiziltan |
Andrea Štaka, Frédéric Maire, Meinolf Zurhorst [6] |
[edit] Honorable Mention
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Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) |
 Steve Buscemi Aki Kaurismäki |
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 Maja Weiss |
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(Emporte-moi) The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi) |
 Léa Pool Santosh Sivan |
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les traces d'une vie possible |
Denis Gaubert |
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(Rezervni deli) A Small World (Mali svet) |
Damjan Kozole Miloš Radović |
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(Ta divna splitska noć) |
 Arsen Anton Ostojić |
[edit] Audience Award
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Cédric Klapisch |
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 Ulrich Seidl |
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(Torowisko) |
 Urszula Urbaniak |
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(Ničija zemlja) |
Danis Tanović |
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Dean DeBlois Chris Sanders |
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(Gori vatra) |
Pjer Žalica |
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Michael Moore |
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 Terry George |
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Michael Winterbottom |
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(Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) |
 Eran Kolirin |
[edit] Best Short Film
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Virgil Widrich |
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(10 minuta) |
Ahmed Imamović |
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Vincent Bierrewaerts |
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(Ich und das Universum) |
Hajo Schomerus |
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(Valuri) |
 Adrian Sitaru |
[edit] Noteworthy guests and participants
- Bono
- Leos Carax
- Katrin Cartlidge
- Coolio
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Willem Dafoe
- Gérard Depardieu
- Fiasco
- Stephen Frears
- Hugh Hudson
- Mike Leigh
- John Malkovich
- Marco Mueller
- Peter Mullan
- Nick Cave
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Susan Sontag
- Danis Tanović
- Emily Watson
- Steve Buscemi
- Michael Moore
- Fatih Akin
- Juliette Binoche
- Jeremy Irons
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ FIPRESCI Awards 2000. FIPRESCI (2008-02-24). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
- ^ Objavljen sastav žirija igranog filma 9. Sarajevo Film Festivala (Bosnian). Sarajevo-x.com (2003-07-12). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
- ^ 10. Sarajevo Film Festival (Croatian). Film.hr (2004-08-10). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
- ^ Završen 11. Sarajevo Film Festival - Laureat bugarski film Lady Zee (Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija (2005-08-29). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
- ^ 12. Sarajevo Film Festival 18 - 28 kolovoza 2006 (Croatian). Filmski.net (2006-08-14). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
- ^ Sarajevo Film Festival 2007 - Najvažniji filmski događaj godine u regiji (Croatian). DOP magazine (2007-08-24). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
