Sarajevo Film Festival

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The Sarajevo Film Festival is the most important and largest film festival in Southeast Europe and one of the largest film festivals in Europe. It was created in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War as a protest against war and every year in August it brings international and regional celebrities to Sarajevo to screen a wide range of feature films and short films . The festival is run by Mirsad Purivatra, formerly executive director of the Bosnian branch of McCann Erickson. The first festival with 37 films from 15 countries already attracted 15,000 viewers. The festival is dedicated to the art form of film and supports independent film .

"Heart of Sarajevo"

The Sarajevo Film Festival has been accredited as an international competition festival with a regional focus by the international film producers association FIAPF since 1996 . Since 2003, only films from Southeast Europe have been shown in the international competition. The main prize of the festival is the “Heart of Sarajevo” (Srce Sarajeva) for the best film.

The previous winning films in the "Best Film" category are:

Year Movie Director Nationality of the director
1996 Breaking the waves Trier, Lars von DenmarkDenmark Denmark
1997 My life in pink Berliner, Alain BelgiumBelgium Belgium
1998 Misanthropist Noé, Gaspar FranceFrance France
1999 December 1–31 Peters, Jan GermanyGermany Germany
2000 Bleeder Refn, Nicolas Winding DenmarkDenmark Denmark
2001 No Man's Land Tanović, Danis Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
2002 Saturday Villegas, Juan ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
2003 Gori vatra Žalica, Pjer Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
2004 Mila from Mars Zornitsa, Sofia BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
2005 Lady Zee Djulgerov, Georgi BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
2006 Miss Staka, Andrea SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
2007 Takva - fear of God Kızıltan, Özer TurkeyTurkey Turkey
2008 Buick Riviera Rušinović, Goran CroatiaCroatia Croatia
2009 Ordinary People Perišić, Vladimir SerbiaSerbia Serbia
2010 Tilva Roš Ležaić, Nikola SerbiaSerbia Serbia
2011 Breathe Markovics, Karl AustriaAustria Austria
2012 Everybody in Our Family Jew, Radu RomaniaRomania Romania
2013 The long bright days Ekvtimishvili, Nana and Simon Groß GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia
2014 Song of My Mother Mintaş, Erol TurkeyTurkey Turkey
2015 mustang Gamze Ergüven, Deniz TurkeyTurkey Turkey
2016 album Can Mertoğlu, Mehmet TurkeyTurkey Turkey
2017 Scary mother Urushadze, Ana GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia
2018 Ága Lazarov, Milko BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
2019 Take Me Somewhere Nice Sendijarević, Ena Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
2020 exile Visar Morina KosovoKosovo Kosovo
2021 Lot of freedom Titmouse, Sebastian AustriaAustria Austria

The Sarajevo Film Festival awards further awards such as an honorable mention from the jury, an audience award, a short film award and an award for Panorama, which was given by Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy in 2000 .

literature

  • Lejla Memišević: The staging of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2015, doi : 10.25365 / thesis.36524 .
  • Kenneth Turan: Sundance to Sarajevo. Film festivals and the world they made . University of California Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 0-585-46625-4 , chap. Sarajevo , S. 89-108 .

Web links

Commons : Sarajevo Film Festival  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladan Petkovic: Sarajevo 2020 Awards: Exile triumphs at Sarajevo. In: cineuropa.org. August 21, 2020, accessed August 21, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Sarajevo: Main prize for domestic film “Great Freedom”. In: ORF.at . August 19, 2021, accessed August 20, 2021 .