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REPORT: Sarajevo 2023

Cineuropa is covering the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Sarajevo 2023
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56 articles available in total starting from 18/10/2022. Last article published on 22/08/2023.

Olivér Rudolf, Zsigmond Kungl and Genovéva Petrovits  • Director, co-writer and producer of My Mother, The Monster

Interview: Olivér Rudolf, Zsigmond Kungl and Genovéva Petrovits • Director, co-writer and producer of My Mother, The Monster

"This film is an oath to rebellion"

The Hungarian team discusses what's behind their project, winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at CineLink Industry Days  

22/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | CineLink Industry Days

Maša Marković  • Head of industry, Sarajevo Film Festival

Interview: Maša Marković • Head of industry, Sarajevo Film Festival

“The Sarajevo Film Festival has built its own ecosystem of returning talents”

The head honcho of CineLink Industry Days sums up the focus of the event, discusses the challenges of the past and the present, and reveals the plans for the future  

22/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | CineLink Industry Days

Review: Die Before Death

Review: Die Before Death

Ahmed Imamović’s third feature is essentially a TV film that deals with the topics of impending death and the sins of the past in a shallow and banal way  

22/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Open Air

Nemanja Vojinović  • Director of Bottlemen

Interview: Nemanja Vojinović • Director of Bottlemen

"I aimed to create an observational documentary, with the narrative driving force of fiction"

The Serbian director discusses his film, a dive into one of Europe's largest unsanitary landfills, set in a suburb of Belgrade, which snagged the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Una Gunjak  • Director of Excursion

Interview: Una Gunjak • Director of Excursion

"A film is a living animal; it never comes out the way you imagine it on paper"

The Bosnian director talks about her first feature Excursion, which depicts the turmoil of adolescence through a young woman who doesn’t intend to play by society’s heteropatriarchal rules  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Out of Competition

Goran Dević  • Director of What's to Be Done?

Interview: Goran Dević • Director of What's to Be Done?

"In the film, the viewer and society also serve as the main characters"

The Croatian filmmaker discusses his latest work, which approaches workers’ rights, corruption and governments’ disdain for ordinary people through the case of a 120-year-old train factory  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Review: Body

Review: Body

Dedicated to mothers and daughters, Petra Seliškar’s film is a visually stunning and emotionally breathtaking story of a woman and her fight against autoimmune diseases  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Review: Silence of Reason

Review: Silence of Reason

Following Disturbed Earth, Kumjana Novanova presents a profound, fluid and uncompromising work that aims to serve as a call for remembrance  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Review: Europa

Review: Europa

Sudabeh Mortezai’s follow-up to the award-winning Joy is a blistering political drama set in Albania  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry wins the Heart of Sarajevo

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry wins the Heart of Sarajevo

The Georgian-Swiss co-production helmed by Elene Naveriani has won Sarajevo’s top prize for a fiction feature as well as the Best Actress Award  

21/08 | Sarajevo 2023 | Awards

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