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This is a film about the oldest generation who have chosen to act according to their conscience in today’s world," says ...
Remembering Sarajevo’s War-Time Movie Club Where Tickets Cost a Cigarette (But You Had to Watch Out for Snipers) In 1993, during the siege of Sarajevo, film fans started a movie club, laying the ...
Matt Damon talks with Variety about Sarajevo Siege Documentary 'Kiss the Future' featuring U2 footage, Bill Clinton and Christiane Amanpour Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...
The Sarajevo Film Festival was born amid the Bosnian war, in 1994 during the four-year siege of the city. Sarajevo, the city, and the festival have done much to put that dark history behind them.
Sarajevo Film Festival First Office Sarajevo Film Festival. It’s these humble beginnings that make it even more remarkable that, in such a relatively short period of time, Sarajevo has become ...
As the Sarajevo Film Festival prepares to launch its 30th edition, which runs August 16-23, the event stands as a testament to the resilience and creativity of Southeast European cinema in the ...
Born in defiance during the early-’90s siege of the city, the festival reaches a milestone with films still haunted by conflict. ... The first Sarajevo Film Festival was unlike any other festival.
Every film festival has a history, but at the Sarajevo Film Festival, the past, as Faulkner might say, is never dead. It’s not even past. Launched during the Bosnian War, in the middle of the ...
The Sarajevo Film Festival, now 30 years old, grew out of underground screenings during the siege of the city. Those roots still define the event’s character.
When the Sarajevo Film Festival was born in the midst of the Bosnian War in 1995, the festival’s initial aim was to reconstruct and regenerate the capital city and its inhabitants who had been ...
The Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs Aug. 15-22, will open with the world premiere of Bosnian filmmaker Dino Mustafic’s ...
As the Sarajevo Film Festival prepares to launch its 30th edition, which runs August 16-23, the event stands as a testament to the resilience and creativity of Southeast European cinema in the ...