Sarajevo Film Festival

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 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 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, Willem Dafoe, and Angelina Jolie. 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".

Programs

• Children's Program
• 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).

Award winners

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film:

Year	Film	Director	Jury members
1996 September 10.-18.	Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier	Phil Alden Robinson, Ademir Kenović, Serge Toubiana
1997 September 2.-10.	My Life in Pink (Ma Vie en Rose)	Alain Berliner	FIPRESCI Award Jury: Howard Feinstein, Michèle Levieux, Otto Reiter
1998 August 21.-30.	I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous)	Gaspar Noé	FIPRESCI Award Jury: Laurent Aknin, Mark Duursma, Marina Kostova, Lidija Maslova, Giovanni Valeri
1999 August 20.-29.	December 1-31. (Dezember, 1-31)	Jan Peters	FIPRESCI Award Jury: Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Laurent Aknin, Kati Sinisalo, Rada Šešić, Sheila Johnston
2000 August 18.-26.	Bleeder	Nicolas Winding Refn	FIPRESCI Award Jury: Edda Bauer, Borislav Kolev, Jean-Max Méjean [1]
2001 August 17.-25.	No Man's Land (Ničija zemlja)	Danis Tanović	Agnès B., Lena Headey, Miljenko Jergović
2002 August 16.-24.	Saturday (Sábado)	Juan Villegas	John Anderson, Behrooz Hashemian, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Damjan Kozole, Haris Pašović
2003 August 15.-23.	Fuse (Gori vatra)	Pjer Žalica	Sandra den Hamer, Brock Norman Brock, Dušan Makavejev, Fatmir Koçi, Nina Violić [2]
2004 August 20.-28.	Mila from Mars (Mila ot Mars)	Zornitsa Sofia	Mike Leigh, Peter Scarlet, Diana Dumbrava, Pjer Žalica [3]
2005 August 19.-27.	Lady Zee	Georgi Djulgerov	Miki Manojlović, Geoffrey Gilmore, Jessica Hausner, Vesela Kazakova, Isaac Julien [4]
2006 August 18.-28.	Fraulein (Das Fräulein)	Andrea Štaka	Jasmila Žbanić, Wouter Barendrecht, Jan Cvitković, Kim Dong-ho, Jérôme Paillard [5]
2007 August 17.-25.	Takva: A Man's Fear of God (Takva)	Özer Kızıltan	Jeremy Irons, Özgü Namal, Andrea Štaka, Frédéric Maire, Meinolf Zurhorst [6]
2008 August 15.-23.	Buick Riviera	Goran Rušinović	Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hugh Hudson, Marija Škaričić, Michael Weber, Deborah Young[7]
2009 August 12.-20.	Ordinary People	Vladimir Perišić	Mirjana Karanović, Benedek Fliegauf, Christian Jeune, Anamaria Marinca, Wieland Speck[8]
2010 July 22.-30.	Tilva Roš	Nikola Ležaić	Cristi Puiu, Saadet Isil Aksoy, Leon Lučev, Rachel Rosen, Christine Vachon
2011 July 22.-30.	Breathing / Atmen	Karl Markovics	Ari Folman, Alberto Barbera, Zana Marjanović, Michele Ohayon, Rizvan Radulescu

Honorable Mention

Year	Film	Director
1996	Trees Lounge Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat)	Steve Buscemi Aki Kaurismäki
1997	???	???
1998	???	???
1999	Adrian	Maja Weiss
2000	Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi)	Léa Pool Santosh Sivan
2001	Monsieur William, les traces d'une vie possible	Denis Gaubert
2002	???	???
2003	Spare Parts (Rezervni deli) A Small World (Mali svet)	Damjan Kozole Miloš Radović
2004	A Wonderful Night in Split (Ta divna splitska noć)	Arsen Anton Ostojić

Audience Award

Year	Film	Director
1998	Le Ramoneur des lilas	Cédric Klapisch
1999	Models	Ulrich Seidl
2000	The Junction (Torowisko)	Urszula Urbaniak
2001	No Man's Land (Ničija zemlja)	Danis Tanović
2002	Lilo & Stitch	Dean DeBlois Chris Sanders
2003	Fuse (Gori vatra)	Pjer Žalica
2004	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
2005	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George
2006	The Road to Guantanamo	Michael Winterbottom
2007	The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)	Eran Kolirin
2008	The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer
2009	Sevdah	Marina Andree
2010	Cirkus Columbia	Danis Tanović
2011	The Guard	John Michael McDonagh

Best Short Film

Year	Film	Director
2001	Copy Shop	Virgil Widrich
2002	10 Minutes (10 minuta)	Ahmed Imamović
2003	Le Portefeuille	Vincent Bierrewaerts
2004	Me, Myself and the Universe (Ich und das Universum)	Hajo Schomerus
2005	Before Dawn (Hajnal)	Balint Kenyeres
2006	Good Luck Nedim (Sretan put Nedime)	Marko Šantić
2007	Waves (Valuri)	Adrian Sitaru
2008	Tolerantia	Ivan Ramadan
2009	Party (Tulum)	Dalibor Matanić
2010	Yellow Moon	Zvonimir Jurić

Noteworthy guests and participants

• Angelina Jolie
• Brad Pitt
• John Malkovich
• Michael Moore
• Fatih Akin
• Gillian Anderson
• Darren Aronofsky
• Juliette Binoche
• Orlando Bloom
• Bill Carter
• Bono
• Steve Buscemi
• Leos Carax
• Katrin Cartlidge
• Nick Cave
• Coolio
• Alfonso Cuarón
• Willem Dafoe
• Gérard Depardieu
• Fiasco
• Stephen Frears
• Hugh Hudson
• Jeremy Irons
• Charlie Kaufman
• Mike Leigh
• Sharon Maguire
• Peter Mullan
• Nick Nolte
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Mickey Rourke
• Susan Sontag
• Kevin Spacey
• Danis Tanović
• Emily Watson
• Slavoj Žižek
• Morgan Freeman
• Joshua Marston
• Michael Fassbender
• Charlotte Rampling

References

1. ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 2000". FIPRESCI. 2008-02-24. http://www.fipresci.org/awards/awards/awards_2000.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
2. ^ "Objavljen sastav žirija igranog filma 9. Sarajevo Film Festivala" (in Bosnian). Sarajevo-x.com. 2003-07-12. http://www.sarajevo-x.com/clanak/030712001. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
3. ^ "10. Sarajevo Film Festival" (in Croatian). Film.hr. 2004-08-10. http://www.film.hr/vijest.php?tekst_id=126&PHPSESSID=a914a134e42f49964107bb54504e33b2. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
4. ^ "Završen 11. Sarajevo Film Festival - Laureat bugarski film Lady Zee" (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. 2005-08-29. http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20050829/kultura01.asp. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
5. ^ "12. Sarajevo Film Festival 18 - 28 kolovoza 2006" (in Croatian). Filmski.net. 2006-08-14. http://www.filmski.net/vijesti/dugometrazni-film/3829/12._sarajevo_film_festival_18_-_28_kolovoza_2006. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
6. ^ "Sarajevo Film Festival 2007 - Najvažniji filmski događaj godine u regiji" (in Croatian). DOP magazine. 2007-08-24. http://www.dopmagazin.com/file.asp?area=14&pd=20070824_072405&print=print. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
7. ^ Heart of Sarajevo for film "Buick Riviera", Sff.ba (2008-08-23). Retrieved on 2008-08-24.
8. ^ Heart of Sarajevo for film "Ordinary People", Sff.ba (2009-08-20). Retrieved on 2009-08-20.

External links

• Sarajevo Film Festival Official Website