The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed a lineup of 49 films which will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards, whose main competition jury is being overseen by The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius. Scroll down for full lineup.
Set to take place from August 14-21, the Balkan event will be the biggest physical festival to take place in Europe since the coronavirus shut down most film and TV gatherings after Berlin in March.
Cinemas in Bosnia re-opened May 28 with numerous protocols including cleaning footwear before entering auditoria. International travel is permitted to the country, though in a limited form and providing travelers are tested for coronavirus. The event traditionally attracts tens of thousands of visitors and a couple of hundred films, but this year’s lineup is reduced and international attendance is likely to be significantly down.
Sarajevo’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will comprise 29 world premieres,...
Set to take place from August 14-21, the Balkan event will be the biggest physical festival to take place in Europe since the coronavirus shut down most film and TV gatherings after Berlin in March.
Cinemas in Bosnia re-opened May 28 with numerous protocols including cleaning footwear before entering auditoria. International travel is permitted to the country, though in a limited form and providing travelers are tested for coronavirus. The event traditionally attracts tens of thousands of visitors and a couple of hundred films, but this year’s lineup is reduced and international attendance is likely to be significantly down.
Sarajevo’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will comprise 29 world premieres,...
- 7/23/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival will world premiere 12 features across its dramatic and documentary competitions.
Eight features have been selected for the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which is taking place as a physical event from August 14-21.
They include the world premieres of More Raça’s Andromeda Galaxy; Fatih Özcan’s Mavzer; Ruxandra Ghițescu’s Otto The Barbarian; and Ru Hasanov’s The Island Within. A further three films played in the Berlinale’s Panorama section earlier this year: Visar Morina’s Exile; Andrea Staka’s Mare; and Georgis Grigorakis’ Digger, which won the strand’s Cicae Award.
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Eight features have been selected for the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which is taking place as a physical event from August 14-21.
They include the world premieres of More Raça’s Andromeda Galaxy; Fatih Özcan’s Mavzer; Ruxandra Ghițescu’s Otto The Barbarian; and Ru Hasanov’s The Island Within. A further three films played in the Berlinale’s Panorama section earlier this year: Visar Morina’s Exile; Andrea Staka’s Mare; and Georgis Grigorakis’ Digger, which won the strand’s Cicae Award.
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- 7/23/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The festival in Greece shifted online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
David France’s Welcome To Chechnya has won a hat-trick of awards at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The film, which chronicles the ongoing anti-lgbtq persecution raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya, won the festival’s top prize – the Golden Alexander award – which comes with a cash prize of €15,000. It also won the Mermaid Award, presented to the festival’s best Lgbtqi-themed film, and the Fipresci prize.
The documentary, produced by New York-based Public Square Films and BBC Storyville, debuted at...
David France’s Welcome To Chechnya has won a hat-trick of awards at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The film, which chronicles the ongoing anti-lgbtq persecution raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya, won the festival’s top prize – the Golden Alexander award – which comes with a cash prize of €15,000. It also won the Mermaid Award, presented to the festival’s best Lgbtqi-themed film, and the Fipresci prize.
The documentary, produced by New York-based Public Square Films and BBC Storyville, debuted at...
- 5/28/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦¬307¦Alexis Grivas¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
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