The Sarajevo Movie Pageant in Bosnia and Herzegovina unveiled the lineup for its thirty first version on Wednesday. The competition’s 4 competitors sections – for function, documentary, quick and scholar movies – will function 15 world, six worldwide, 28 regional and two nationwide premieres. A complete of fifty movies will compete for the Coronary heart of Sarajevo awards.
This 12 months, the Sarajevo competition programmers group, led by inventive director Izeta Građević, watched 1,036 movies, together with 195 function fiction movies, 291 documentaries, and 550 shorts and scholar titles.
“The competitors applications of the thirty first Sarajevo Movie Pageant deliver collectively filmmakers who, every from their very own perspective and in varied movie codecs and genres, discover how we dwell and the way we survive inside complicated and unstable social frameworks,” mentioned Građević. “The spine of this 12 months’s competitors applications are movies that, transcending nationwide boundaries, stay true to the common tales that form our lives. On this vary – from subjects that take care of immediately to people who query the previous – this choice opens up house to recollect, by way of movie tales, what all of us have in widespread: the necessity for that means, for closeness, for understanding – ourselves and others.”
Elma Tataragić, the programmer of the competitors program – function movie, mentioned that the part’s 9 movies embrace three world premieres and 6 regional premieres, making for “a powerful and various panorama of latest regional cinema.” Touting “a dynamic mixture of daring narration, visible innovation and recent views that mirror the richness of the area’s cultural tapestry,” she highlighted that the competitors consists of six debut movies that “deliver unique voices and daring inventive approaches to the massive display.”
Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino will obtain this 12 months’s Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo award. The Sarajevo fest runs Aug. 15-22.
Try the total Sarajevo lineup under.
COMPETITION PROGRAM – FEATURE FILM
OTTER (VIDRA), Srđan Vuletić (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Kosovo, 2025, 88 min.) – World premiere
STARS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE (MINDEN CSILLAG), Renátó Olasz (Hungary, 2025, 83 min.) – World premiere
YUGO FLORIDA, Vladimir Tagić (Serbia, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Montenegro, 2025, 112 min.) – World premiere
DJ AHMET, Georgi M. Unkovski (North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, 2025, 99 min.) – Regional premiere
FANTASY, Kukla (Slovenia, North Macedonia, 2025, 98 min.) – Regional premiere
GOD WILL NOT HELP (BOG NEĆE POMOĆI), Hana Jušić (Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia, 2025, 135 min.) – Regional premiere
SORELLA DI CLAUSURA, Ivana Mladenović (Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain, 2025, 103 min.) – Regional premiere
WHITE SNAIL, Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter (Austria, Germany, 2025, 115 min.) – Regional premiere
WIND, TALK TO ME (VETRE, PRIČAJ SA MNOM), Stefan Đorđević (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 100 min.) – Regional premiere
COMPETITION PROGRAM – DOCUMENTARY FILM
BOSNIAN KNIGHT (BOSANSKI VITEZ), Tarik Hodžić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2025, 79 min.) – World premiere
I SAW A ‘SUNO’ (SUNO DIKHLEM), Katalin Barsony (Hungary, Belgium, 2025, 92 min.) – World premiere
KITE (CHARTAETOS), Thanos Psichogios (Greece, 2025, 15 min.) – World premiere
STEEL HOTEL SONG, Bojan Stojčić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 19 min.) – World premiere
LETTERS (PISMA), Aysel Küçüksu (Bulgaria, 2025, 11 min.) – Worldwide premiere
MY DAD’S LESSONS (LEKCIJE MOG TATE), Dalija Dozet (Croatia, 2025, 62 min.) – Worldwide premiere
RED SLIDE (CRVENI TOBOGAN), Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia, 2025, 27 min.) – Worldwide premiere
THIRD WORLD (TREĆI SVIJET), Arsen Oremović (Croatia, 2025, 101 min.) – Worldwide premiere
CUBA & ALASKA, Yegor Troyanovsky (Ukraine, France, Belgium, 2025, 93 min.) – Regional premiere
DIVIA, Dmytro Hreshko (Ukraine, Poland, The Netherlands, USA, 2025, 79 min.) – Regional premiere
DREAMERS: PEOPLE OF THE LIGHT (XƏYALPƏRƏSTLƏR: İŞIĞIN UŞAQLARI), Imam Hasanov (Azerbaijan, 2025, 86 min.) – Regional premiere
EVERYTIME YOU LEAVE, YOU ARE BORN AGAIN (SVAKI PUT KAD ODEŠ, PONOVO SE RAĐAŠ), Mladen Bundalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, 2025, 24 min.) – Regional premiere
I BELIEVE THE PORTRAIT SAVED ME (MUA BESOJ MË SHPËTOJ PORTRETI), Alban Muja (Kosovo, The Netherlands, 2025, 10 min.) – Regional premiere
IN HELL WITH IVO, Kristina Nikolova (Bulgaria, USA, 2025, 80 min.) – Regional premiere
MILITANTROPOS, Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgoviy (Ukraine, Austria, France, 2025, 111 min.) – Regional premiere
OUR TIME WILL COME (UNSERE ZEIT WIRD KOMMEN), Ivette Löcker (Austria, 2025, 105 min.) – Regional premiere
THE MEN’S LAND (KACEBIS MITSA), Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani (Georgia, Hungary, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
SLET 1988, Marta Popivoda (Serbia, Germany, France, 2025, 22 min.) – Regional premiere
19-MONTH CONTRACT, Ketevan Vashagashvili (Georgia, Bulgaria, Germany, 2025, 77 min.) – B&H premiere
TATA, Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania, Germany, The Netherlands, 2025, 82 min.) – B&H premiere
OUT OF COMPETITION FILM
OHO FILM, Damjan Kozole (Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 93 min.) – Worldwide premiere, out of competitors
COMPETITION PROGRAM – SHORT FILM
BERNA’S EYES (SYTË E BERNËS), Ermal Gërdovci (Kosovo*, North Macedonia, 2025, 17 min.) – World premiere
DESERT, SHE (IERIMOS), Ioanna Digenaki (Greece, 2025, 14 min.) – World premiere
PROCEDURE (PROSEDÜR), Rabia Özmen (Türkiye, 2025, 18 min.) – World premiere
ALIȘVERIȘ, Vasile Todinca (Romania, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG, Lili Koss (Bulgaria, 2025, 19 min.) – Regional premiere
HYSTERICAL FIT OF LAUGHTER (HISTERIČNI NAPAD SMEHA), Matija Gluščević, Dušan Zorić (Serbia, Croatia, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
INDEX, Radu Muntean (Romania, 2025, 28 min.) – Regional premiere
THE SPECTACLE, Bálint Kenyeres (Hungary, France, 2025, 17 min.) – Regional premiere
UPON SUNRISE (KAD SVANE), Stefan Ivančić (Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
WINTER IN MARCH (LUMI SAADAB MEID), Natalia Mirzoyan (Armenia, Estonia, France, Belgium, 2025, 16 min.) – Regional premiere
COMPETITION PROGRAM – STUDENT FILM
AFTER CLASS (DUPĂ ORE), Marius Papară (Romania, 2025, 18 min.) – World premiere
FOUND & LOST, Reza Rasouli (Austria, 2025, 17 min.) – World premiere
HOME, A SPACE BETWEEN US, Effi Rabsilber (Greece, 2025, 16 min.) – World premiere
RAHLO, Jozo Schmuch (Croatia, 2025, 19 min.) – World premiere
TARIK, Adem Tutić (Serbia, 2025, 27 min.) – World premiere
CURFEW (KOMENDANTSKA HODYNA), Yelyzaveta Toptyhina (Ukraine, 2025, 23 min.) – Worldwide premiere
BACKSTROKE (SIRTÜSTÜ), Asya Günen (Türkiye, 2025, 14 min.) – Regional premiere
LIVING STONES (ÉLŐ KÖVEK), Jakob Ladányi Jancsó (Hungary, 2025, 20 min.) – Regional premiere
MILK AND COOKIES (FURSECURI ȘI LAPTE), Andrei-Tache Codreanu (Romania, 2025, 21 min.) – Regional premiere
PENINSULA (POLUOTOK), David Gašo (Croatia, 2025, 19 min.) – Regional premiere
WISH YOU WERE EAR, Mirjana Balogh (Hungary, 2025, 10 min.) – Regional premiere