The 27th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from August 13 to August 20.
The Sarajevo Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the best known film festivals in Europe and manages to attract great interest every year with the participation of movie stars.
The festival was attended by celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Emile Hirsch, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Oliver Stone, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Michael Fassbender, Jeremy Irons, Bono Vox, Nick Cave, Coolio, Stephen Frears, Mickey Rourke, Michael Moore, Gérard Depardieu, Darren Aronofsky, Sophie Okonedo, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Eric Cantona, Benicio del Toro and many more.
The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from October 25 to November 5 1995 in a city under siege. The siege of Sarajevo, which took place during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the longest siege in war history at the end of the 20th century, which lasted from April 5 1992 to February 29 1996.
The section dedicated to short films is of great importance.
In 2019, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Sarajevo Film Festival the status of an Oscar-qualifying film festival in the short film category. Short films that win the Heart of Sarajevo Award and the nomination for the European Film Academy (EFA) Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival can be considered in the Animated Short Films and Live Short Films category of the Academy Awards. The Sarajevo Film Festival thus joins the family of major international film festivals eligible for an Oscar® which, among others, includes the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the International Film Festival of Locarno Film and the British Academy of Television and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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https://www.sff.ba/en
