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The Sarajevo Film Festival will debut 15 feature films across its four competition strands during its 2025 edition, running from August 15 to 22.

A total of 50 films will compete for the festival’s Heart of Sarajevo awards. The festival’s four competition sections for feature, documentary, short, and student films will also screen six international, 28 regional, and two national premieres.

Announcing today’s batch of titles, Sarajevo Creative Director Izeta Građević, said: “The competition programs of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival bring together filmmakers who, each from their own perspective and in various film formats and genres, explore how we live and how we survive within complex and unstable social frameworks. The backbone of this year’s competition programs are films that, transcending national boundaries, remain true to the universal stories that shape our lives. In this range – from topics that deal with today to those that question the past – this selection opens up space to remember,...

Fifty films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, and one film will be shown out of competition. The festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will feature 15 world, six international, 28 regional and two national premieres.

Sarajevo’s programming team, led by creative director Izeta Građević, has seen 1,036 films, including 195 fiction feature films and 291 documentaries.

Građević said the programs bring together filmmakers who “explore how we live and how we survive within complex and unstable social frameworks.”

She added: “This selection opens up space to remember what we all have in common: the need for meaning, for closeness, for understanding – ourselves and others.”

Competition Program – Feature Film

Otter, Srđan Vuletić – World premiere.

A reserved teenager, Hana, has been invited by her crush, Balsa, to go to a lake with him to film a solar eclipse. On the morning of their planned trip,...

The Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina unveiled the lineup for its 31st edition on Wednesday. The festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student films – will feature 15 world, six international, 28 regional and two national premieres. A total of 50 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards.

This year, the Sarajevo festival programmers team, led by creative director Izeta Građević, watched 1,036 films, including 195 feature fiction films, 291 documentaries, and 550 shorts and student titles.

“The competition programs of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival bring together filmmakers who, each from their own perspective and in various film formats and genres, explore how we live and how we survive within complex and unstable social frameworks,” said Građević. “The backbone of this year’s competition programs are films that, transcending national boundaries, remain true to the universal stories that shape our lives. In this range – from topics that deal with...

Srdan Vuletic’s Otter and Vladimir Tagic’s Yugo Florida are among the five feature world premieres screening as part of the competition programme of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival dir. Srdan Vuletic*

Stars Of Little Importance (Hun) dir. Renato Olasz*

Yugo Florida (Ser-Bul-Fr-Cro-Mont) dir. Vladimir Tagic*

DJ Ahmet (N Mac-Czech-Ser-Cro) dir. Georgi M. Unkovski

Fantasy (Slovenia-n Mac) dir. Kukla

God Will Not Help (Cro-It-Rom-Gr-Fr-Slovenia) dir. Hana Jusic

Sorella Di Clausura (Rom-Ser-It-Sp) dir. Ivana Mladenovic

White Snail (Austria-Ger) dirs. Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Wind, Talk To Me (Ser-Slovenia-Cro) dir. Stefan Dordevic

Competition programme – documentary film

Bosnian Knight (Bos & Her-Cro) dir.