Sarajevo Film Festival

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Sarajevo Film Festival

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Location Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language International
http://www.sff.ba

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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[edit] 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".

Beginning with the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2007 and in cooperation with the Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talent Campus, the Sarajevo Talent Campus has been added to the festival. The Sarajevo Talent Campus is an educational and creative platform for up and coming young film professionals, and has eventually come to be revered as the the most prestigious film training event in the region.[1]

The festival also features CineLink, a year-long project development program resulting in an annual co-production market during the festival dates. The CineLink Market each year presents approximately 10 finest regional projects for feature-length fiction films, also offering festival guests a special opportunity to meet with the assembled regional industry, with emphasis on young filmmakers, producers and directors presenting their latest projects, productions and works in progress, with highlights of the regional production presented to international distributors, TV-buyers and festival programmers, making CineLink the most important international market place for new features from Southeast Europe.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival

[edit] Programs

  • Children's Program
  • New Currents
  • New Currents shorts
  • Open Air
  • Panorama
  • Panorama Documentaries
  • Regional (competition) Program (feature, short, documentary)
  • In Focus

[edit] 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). Each year, more than two hundred applications are received, and only eighty are carefully chosen to attend a six-day training led by some of the most prominent film professionals in the world.

[edit] Award winners

[edit] The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film

Year Film Director Jury members
1996
September 10.-18.
Breaking the Waves
 Denmark Lars von Trier
Phil Alden Robinson, Ademir Kenović,
Serge Toubiana
1997
September 2.-10.
My Life in Pink
(Ma Vie en Rose)
 Belgium Alain Berliner
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Howard Feinstein, Michèle Levieux, Otto Reiter
1998
August 21.-30.
I Stand Alone
(Seul contre tous)
 France Gaspar Noé
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Laurent Aknin, Mark Duursma, Marina Kostova,
Lidija Maslova, Giovanni Valeri
1999
August 20.-29.
December 1–31.
(Dezember, 1-31)
 Germany Jan Peters
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Laurent Aknin, Kati Sinisalo,
Rada Šešić, Sheila Johnston
2000
August 18.-26.
Bleeder
 Denmark Nicolas Winding Refn
FIPRESCI Award Jury:
Edda Bauer, Borislav Kolev, Jean-Max Méjean [2]
2001
August 17.-25.
No Man's Land
(Ničija zemlja)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Danis Tanović
Agnès B., Lena Headey, Miljenko Jergović
2002
August 16.-24.
Saturday
(Sábado)
 Argentina Juan Villegas
John Anderson, Behrooz Hashemian,
Jean-Pierre Rehm, Damjan Kozole, Haris Pašović
2003
August 15.-23.
Fuse
(Gori vatra)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Pjer Žalica
Sandra den Hamer, Brock Norman Brock,
Dušan Makavejev, Fatmir Koçi, Nina Violić [3]
2004
August 20.-28.
Mila from Mars
(Mila ot Mars)
 Bulgaria Zornitsa Sofia
Mike Leigh, Peter Scarlet,
Diana Dumbrava, Pjer Žalica [4]
2005
August 19.-27.
Lady Zee
 Bulgaria Georgi Djulgerov
Miki Manojlović, Geoffrey Gilmore,
Jessica Hausner, Vesela Kazakova, Isaac Julien [5]
2006
August 18.-28.
Fraulein
(Das Fräulein)
 Switzerland Andrea Štaka
Jasmila Žbanić, Wouter Barendrecht,
Jan Cvitković, Kim Dong-ho, Jérôme Paillard [6]
2007
August 17.-25.
Takva: A Man's Fear of God
(Takva)
 Turkey Özer Kızıltan
Jeremy Irons, Özgü Namal,
Andrea Štaka, Frédéric Maire, Meinolf Zurhorst [7]
2008
August 15.-23.
Buick Riviera
 Croatia Goran Rušinović
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hugh Hudson,
Marija Škaričić, Michael Weber, Deborah Young[8]
2009
August 12.-20.
Ordinary People
 Serbia Vladimir Perišić
Mirjana Karanović, Benedek Fliegauf,
Christian Jeune, Anamaria Marinca, Wieland Speck[9]
2010
July 22.-30.
Tilva Roš
 Serbia Nikola Ležaić
Cristi Puiu, Saadet Isil Aksoy,
Leon Lučev, Rachel Rosen, Christine Vachon
2011
July 22.-30.
Breathing / Atmen
 Austria Karl Markovics
Ari Folman, Alberto Barbera,
Zana Marjanović, Michele Ohayon, Rizvan Radulescu

[edit] Honorable Mention

Year Film Director
1996
Trees Lounge
Drifting Clouds
(Kauas pilvet karkaavat)
 United States Steve Buscemi
Finland Aki Kaurismäki
1997
???
???
1998
???
???
1999
Adrian
 Slovenia Maja Weiss
2000
Set Me Free
(Emporte-moi)
The Terrorist
(Theeviravaathi)
 Canada Léa Pool

India Santosh Sivan
2001
Monsieur William,
les traces d'une vie possible
 France Denis Gaubert
2002
???
???
2003
Spare Parts
(Rezervni deli)
A Small World
(Mali svet)
 Slovenia Damjan Kozole

Serbia and Montenegro Miloš Radović
2004
A Wonderful Night in Split
(Ta divna splitska noć)
 Croatia Arsen Anton Ostojić

[edit] Audience Award

Year Film Director
1998
Le Ramoneur des lilas
 France Cédric Klapisch
1999
Models
 Austria Ulrich Seidl
2000
The Junction
(Torowisko)
 Poland Urszula Urbaniak
2001
No Man's Land
(Ničija zemlja)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Danis Tanović
2002
Lilo & Stitch
 Canada Dean DeBlois
United States Chris Sanders
2003
Fuse
(Gori vatra)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Pjer Žalica
2004
Fahrenheit 9/11
 United States Michael Moore
2005
Hotel Rwanda
 United Kingdom Terry George
2006
The Road to Guantanamo
 United Kingdom Michael Winterbottom
2007
The Band's Visit
(Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)
 Israel Eran Kolirin
2008
The Usual Suspects
 United States Bryan Singer
2009
Sevdah
 CroatiaBosnia and Herzegovina Marina Andree
2010
Cirkus Columbia
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Danis Tanović
2011
The Guard
 Republic of Ireland John Michael McDonagh

[edit] Best Short Film

Year Film Director
2001
Copy Shop
 Austria Virgil Widrich
2002
10 Minutes
(10 minuta)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Ahmed Imamović
2003
Le Portefeuille
 Belgium Vincent Bierrewaerts
2004
Me, Myself and the Universe
(Ich und das Universum)
 Germany Hajo Schomerus
2005
Before Dawn
(Hajnal)
 Hungary Balint Kenyeres
2006
Good Luck Nedim
(Sretan put Nedime)
 Slovenia Marko Šantić
2007
Waves
(Valuri)
 Romania Adrian Sitaru
2008
Tolerantia
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivan Ramadan
2009
Party
(Tulum)
 Croatia Dalibor Matanić
2010
Yellow Moon
 Croatia Zvonimir Jurić

[edit] Noteworthy guests and participants

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.sff.ba/content.php/en/festival?set_culture=en
  2. ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 2000". FIPRESCI. 2008-02-24. http://www.fipresci.org/awards/awards/awards_2000.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
  3. ^ "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. 
  4. ^ "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. 
  5. ^ "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. 
  6. ^ "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. 
  7. ^ "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. 
  8. ^ Heart of Sarajevo for film "Buick Riviera", Sff.ba (2008-08-23). Retrieved on 2008-08-24.
  9. ^ Heart of Sarajevo for film "Ordinary People", Sff.ba (2009-08-20). Retrieved on 2009-08-20.

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