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Sarajevo Film Festival
2008 logoLocation Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Language International Official website 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.
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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 Toubiana1997
September 2.-10.My Life in Pink
(Ma Vie en Rose)Alain Berliner
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Howard Feinstein, Michèle Levieux, Otto Reiter1998
August 21.-30.I Stand Alone
(Seul contre tous)Gaspar Noé
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Laurent Aknin, Mark Duursma, Marina Kostova,
Lidija Maslova, Giovanni Valeri1999
August 20.-29.December 1-31.
(Dezember, 1-31)Jan Peters
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Laurent Aknin, Kati Sinisalo,
Rada Šešić, Sheila Johnston2000
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 Pašović2003
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 Vachon2011
July 22.-30.Breathing / Atmen Karl Markovics
Ari Folman, Alberto Barbera,
Zana Marjanović, Michele Ohayon, Rizvan RadulescuHonorable 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 possibleDenis 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
- ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 2000". FIPRESCI. 2008-02-24. http://www.fipresci.org/awards/awards/awards_2000.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
External links
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Non-competitive Documentary and shorts Bilbao · Krakow · Oberhausen · St. Petersburg · Tampere
Categories:- International film festivals
- Recurring events established in 1995
- Culture in Sarajevo
- Festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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