Sarajevo Film Festival was initiated in the year 1995, towards the end of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, with the aim of helping to reconstruct civil society and retain the cosmopolitan spirit of the city. Today, two decadeslater, Sarajevo Film Festival grew into a big and renowed international film festival, shining an international spotlight on films, talents and projects from the region. The focus of festival's competition and side programme is the region of South-East Europe, including the countries of Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.

Sarajevo Film Festival will present a selection of short films from their last year's student film competition programme.

FILMS:

Heartbeat, Gvozden Ilić, Bosnia Herzegovina, 2023., 16'

A girl roams through the city in order to retrieve her heart and take it to her boyfriend. But there is one problem: the heart has stopped beating.

In Their Dreams all Jellyfish Are Wet, Marie Luise Lehner, Austria, 2023., 27'

This film questions not only the rules of the swimming pool, but also of gender norms and social conventions. As well, it explores the feeling that emerges when one has managed to overcome one’s shame.

Falling, Anna Gyimesi, Hungary, 2023., 17'

To get on with her life, Els, a mother in her forties, has to accept her adult daughter’s decision to request psychiatric euthanasia. Film won Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Student Film.

From the Corner of My Eyes, Domonkos Erhardt, Hungary, 2023., 6'

Film depicts the moment when two strangers’ lives become entangled for a brief second when their eyes meet.

*films are in original language with English subtitles