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The Bosnian and Herzegovinian candidate in the category Best International Feature Film for the Academy Award is the film MY LATE SUMMER by Danis Tanović. The Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the certified professional organization for Bosnia… Read More »MY LATE SUMMER by Danis Tanović is this year’s Bosnian and Herzegovinian candidate for the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscar award!

Hamburg-based European Film Promotion is pleased to announce that 16 former Producers on the Move will be attending this year’s FILMFEST HAMBURG. In cooperation with the festival, MOIN Film Fund and the Explorer Conference, they will not only take part… Read More »Bosnian and Herzegovinian producer Adis Đapo attending FILMFEST HAMBURG

As every year during the Sarajevo Film Festival, the Association of Filmmakers of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina presents awards for the best Bosnian and Herzegovinian student films as well as the Ivica Matić Award for the most deserving… Read More »Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Announces the Awards Winners

Srđan Jevđević, before he became a guru, was a multitude of different personas. Some remember him for pop hits like “Mače moje čupavo,” which he released in his first incarnation as Đino Banana; others for his role in the legendary… Read More »Grandpa Guru: A Man and a Film That Never Stop Surprising

At the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival, Srđan Vuletić presents his third feature film, Gym. The director, who garnered numerous awards with his debut Summer in the Golden Valley, including the Golden Tiger in Rotterdam, returns with a film that revisits a formula… Read More »Gym: What is Morality in a Meaningless Society?

Goran Pavljašević, in some distant past we categorize as “before the war,” was a stage manager in Tuzla and spent his time happily in his hometown of Husino. During the war, he moved to Pula, continued working as a stage… Read More »Brazil’s House: More Than an Identity

Zdenko Jurilj, a Herzegovinian director best known for his work on documentary films and his long-standing journalism career, is attending this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival in two roles: presenting his debut feature film Stigmas and serving as a jury member for the… Read More »Zdenko Jurilj: I Expect New Generations to Bring Their Own Artistic Expression and I Look Forward to Pleasant Surprises

Today, the emblem was unveiled in which the European Film Academy declares Sarajevo’s Baščaršija as a European Film Treasure! The unveiling was attended by representatives of the Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, local and international film professionals, representatives… Read More »The Emblem is Unveiled: BAŠČARŠIJA IS EUROPEAN FILM TREASURE!

Beneath the colourful clouds mainly created by the Zenica Steelworks, the city and its inhabitants are hidden. To see the sky, they leave the city and enter jokes about people you treat with exhaust gasses in clean air. It all… Read More »The Sky Above Zenica: Take a Breath for Zenica

Even under the strictest censorship, during times when every wrong frame or piece of props could, at worst, land the author in prison, or at best, keep the film in post-production for years, biographies of artists were filmed. Film authors… Read More »Safet Zec: The Master’s Path or: Biography of An Artist Seen Through His Son’s Eyes