Sarajevo Film Festival
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| Location | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Directed by | Mirsad Purivatra |
| Language | International |
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The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe,[1][2] and is one of the largest in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian Independence War, and brings international and local celebrities to Sarajevo every year. It is held in August and showcases an extensive variety of feature and short films from around the world. The current director of the festival is Mirsad Purivatra, former CEO of the Bosnian branch of McCann Erickson.
History
The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from 25 October to 5 November 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 now being the most prominent film festival in South-East Europe, attracting tens of thousands of people a year, as well as foreign celebrities such as U2's Bono, Willem Dafoe, and Angelina Jolie.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has been hosted at the National Theater, with screenings at the Open-air theater Metalac and the Bosnian Cultural Center, all located in downtown Sarajevo and has been attended by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Emile Hirsch, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, Danny Glover John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Irons, Bono Vox (Bono holds dual Bosnian and Irish citizenship and is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo), Nick Cave, Coolio, Stephen Frears, Mickey Rourke, Michael Moore, Gérard Depardieu, Darren Aronofsky, Sophie Okonedo, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Eric Cantona and many others.
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 United States. In 2004, the Best Movie Award was named "The Heart of Sarajevo".
Beginning with the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2007 and in cooperation with the Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talent Campus, the Sarajevo Talent Campus has been added to the festival. The Sarajevo Talent Campus is an educational and creative platform for up and coming young film professionals, and has eventually come to be revered as the most prestigious film training event in the region.[3]
The festival also features CineLink, a year-long project development program resulting in an annual co-production market during the festival dates. The CineLink Market each year presents approximately 10 finest regional projects for feature-length fiction films, also offering festival guests a special opportunity to meet with the assembled regional industry, with emphasis on young filmmakers, producers and directors presenting their latest projects, productions and works in progress, with highlights of the regional production presented to international distributors, TV-buyers and festival programmers, making CineLink the most important international market place for new features from Southeast Europe.
Programs
- Children's Program
- Teen Arena
- New Currents
- New Currents shorts
- Open Air
- Panorama
- Panorama Documentaries
- Regional (competition) Program (feature, short, documentary)
- In Focus
Sarajevo Talent Campus
Launched in 2007 in co-operation with the Berlin International Film Festival and the Berlinale Talent Campus, Sarajevo Talent Campus is an educational and networking platform for emerging film talents from South-Eastern European region (Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey). Each year, more than two hundred applications are received, and only eighty are carefully chosen to attend a six-day training led by some of the most prominent film professionals in the world.
Award winners
Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film
| Year | Film | Director | Jury members |
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September 10.-18. |
 Lars von Trier |
Serge Toubiana | |
September 2.-10. |
(Ma Vie en Rose) |
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Howard Feinstein, Michèle Levieux, Otto Reiter |
August 21.-30. |
(Seul contre tous) |
 Gaspar Noé |
Laurent Aknin, Mark Duursma, Marina Kostova, Lidija Maslova, Giovanni Valeri |
August 20.-29. |
(Dezember, 1-31) |
 Jan Peters |
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Laurent Aknin, Kati Sinisalo, Rada Šešić, Sheila Johnston |
August 18.-26. |
Nicolas Winding Refn |
Edda Bauer, Borislav Kolev, Jean-Max Méjean [4] | |
August 17.-25. |
(Ničija zemlja) |
 Danis Tanović |
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August 16.-24. |
(Sábado) |
 Juan Villegas |
Jean-Pierre Rehm, Damjan Kozole, Haris Pašović |
August 15.-23. |
(Gori vatra) |
Pjer Žalica |
Dušan Makavejev, Fatmir Koçi, Nina Violić [5] |
August 20.-28. |
(Mila ot Mars) |
 Zornitsa Sofia |
Diana Dumbrava, Pjer Žalica [6] |
August 19.-27. |
Georgi Djulgerov |
Jessica Hausner, Vesela Kazakova, Isaac Julien [7] | |
August 18.-28. |
(Das Fräulein) |
 Andrea Štaka |
Jan Cvitković, Kim Dong-ho, Jérôme Paillard [8] |
August 17.-25. |
(Takva) |
 Özer Kızıltan |
Andrea Štaka, Frédéric Maire, Meinolf Zurhorst [9] |
August 15.-23. |
 Goran Rušinović |
Marija Škaričić, Michael Weber, Deborah Young[10] | |
August 12.-20. |
 Vladimir Perišić |
Christian Jeune, Anamaria Marinca, Wieland Speck[11] | |
July 22.-30. |
Nikola Ležaić |
Leon Lučev, Rachel Rosen, Christine Vachon | |
July 22.-30. |
 Karl Markovics |
Zana Marjanović, Michele Ohayon, Rizvan Radulescu | |
July 6.-14. |
 Radu Jude |
Ada Condeescu, Eva Diederix, Igor Martinovic | |
2013 August |
 Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross |
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2014 August 15.-23. |
Erol Mintaş |
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Honorable Mention
| Year | Film | Director |
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Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) |
 Steve Buscemi Aki Kaurismäki | |
 Maja Weiss | ||
(Emporte-moi) The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi) |
 Léa Pool Santosh Sivan | |
les traces d'une vie possible |
Denis Gaubert | |
(Rezervni deli) A Small World (Mali svet) |
Damjan Kozole Miloš Radović | |
(Ta divna splitska noć) |
Arsen Anton Ostojić | |
Audience Award
| Year | Film | Director |
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| Cédric Klapisch | ||
| Ulrich Seidl | ||
(Torowisko) |
 Urszula Urbaniak | |
(Ničija zemlja) |
Danis Tanović | |
| Dean DeBlois Chris Sanders | ||
(Gori vatra) |
Pjer Žalica | |
| Michael Moore | ||
 Terry George | ||
| Michael Winterbottom | ||
(Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) |
 Eran Kolirin | |
| Bryan Singer | ||
| Marina Andree | ||
| Danis Tanović | ||
 John Michael McDonagh | ||
| Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano | ||
Best Short Film
| Year | Film | Director |
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| Virgil Widrich | ||
(10 minuta) |
Ahmed Imamović | |
| Vincent Bierrewaerts | ||
(Ich und das Universum) |
Hajo Schomerus | |
(Hajnal) |
 Balint Kenyeres | |
(Sretan put Nedime) |
Marko Šantić | |
(Valuri) |
Adrian Sitaru | |
| Ivan Ramadan | ||
(Tulum) |
Dalibor Matanić | |
| Zvonimir Jurić | ||
| Dane Komljen | ||
 Blerta Zeqiri | ||
| Radu Jude | ||
References
- ↑ "About the Sarajevo Film Festival". Sarajevo Film Festival Official Website.
- ↑ "Inside Film's Guide to Film Festivals in Europe". Inside Film.
- ↑ http://www.sff.ba/content.php/en/festival?set_culture=en
- ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 2000". FIPRESCI. 2008-02-24. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ "Objavljen sastav žirija igranog filma 9. Sarajevo Film Festivala" (in Bosnian). Sarajevo-x.com. 2003-07-12. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ "10. Sarajevo Film Festival" (in Croatian). Film.hr. 2004-08-10. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ "Završen 11. Sarajevo Film Festival - Laureat bugarski film Lady Zee" (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. 2005-08-29. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ "12. Sarajevo Film Festival 18 - 28 kolovoza 2006" (in Croatian). Filmski.net. 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ "Sarajevo Film Festival 2007 - Najvažniji filmski događaj godine u regiji" (in Croatian). DOP magazine. 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ Heart of Sarajevo for film "Buick Riviera", Sff.ba (2008-08-23). Retrieved on 2008-08-24.
- ↑ Heart of Sarajevo for film "Ordinary People", Sff.ba (2009-08-20). Retrieved on 2009-08-20.
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