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The first day of this year’s BH Film programme is largely dedicated to restored works of Bosnian-Herzegovinian and regional cinema. Restoration is a complex, costly, but also extremely important process of saving and preserving film materials. Through this process, films… Read More »Restoration as the Essence of Preservation and an Opportunity for a New Life

The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York City has officially opened its 22nd edition, taking place from April 22 to April 25, 2026, at the SVA Theatre, presenting a diverse program of contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian, regional, and diasporic cinema. This year’s… Read More »Celebrating Bosnian Cinema: 22nd BH Film Festival Opens in New York

EFP European Film Promotion has announced 20 films nominated for the 2026 Latin American Critics’ Award for European Films, now in its third edition. The films, submitted by national film promotion institutes across Europe, include premieres from top festivals such… Read More »Through the Critics’ Lens: 20 European Films Compete for Latin American Critics’ Award

As part of SEEfest (South East European Film Festival), the documentary film BLUM: Masters of Their Own Destiny, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official Oscar® submission, will screen today, December 3, 2025, at 7:00 PM at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in… Read More »Bosnia’s Oscar Entry BLUM-MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINY Screens in Los Angeles: A Special Tribute to Producer Damir Ibrahimović

As at every Sarajevo Film Festival, the Association of Filmmakers in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina presents awards both for the best Bosnian-Herzegovinian student films and the Ivica Matić Award to the most deserving filmmakers of the previous calendar… Read More »Winners of the Association of Filmmakers’ Awards 2025

Tonight at 9 p.m., as part of the BH Film program, audiences will have the opportunity to watch the documentary BLUM – MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINY by Jasmila Žbanić. The film premiered in Sarajevo in 2024, while its working… Read More »When We Were Masters of Our Own Destiny

Today at 3 p.m., as part of the BH Film program, the documentary HOUSE WITH HEART, directed by Sabaheta Džafica, will have its premiere. This is a film about growing up, migration, uncertainty, and humanity. It is a film about… Read More »Everyone Carries a Home Within

At 3 p.m. today, the BH Film program will present the documentary THE MYSTICAL CANYON OF RAKITNICA by Rubina Smajić. The Rakitnica Canyon is one of the most beautiful and best-kept wilderness secrets of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Stretching 26 kilometers,… Read More »Indescribable Beauty of Nature and a Leap into the Abyss

Today at 6 p.m., as part of the BH Film program, the documentary ĆETIBA by director and screenwriter Ramiz Huremagić will have its premiere. The film is titled after its protagonist, Ćetiba Dupanović, a professor and cultural worker who, through… Read More »Strong as a River

THE PARTISAN NECROPOLIS is the new film by Chris Leslie, Scottish journalist, director, documentarian, and longtime guest of the BH Film program, which our audience will be able to watch today at 3 PM. The necropolis in question is the… Read More »The Place of the Dead That Could Reconcile the Living