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56 articles available in total starting from 08/12/2021. Last article published on 31/08/2022.

Actors, casting directors and talent agents from five ex-Yugoslav countries get a platform for regional cooperation

Actors, casting directors and talent agents from five ex-Yugoslav countries get a platform for regional cooperation

A three-year Memorandum of Cooperation on the ReActing as a Star project has been signed by the five film centres in the region of the former Yugoslavia  

31/08/2022 | Industry | Market | Slovenia/Croatia/Serbia/North Macedonia/Montenegro

Juraj Lerotić  • Director of Safe Place

Interview: Juraj Lerotić • Director of Safe Place

“My film is about a traumatic event, a sudden rift in everyday life, a loss of control”

We got the chance to talk to the director of the Cineuropa Award-winning film, the protagonist of which is caught between the unlimited support of his family and a dysfunctional health system  

31/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Marysia Nikitiuk  • Director of Cherry Blossoms

Interview: Marysia Nikitiuk • Director of Cherry Blossoms

“CineLink, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Eurimages Award have given me the hope and strength to continue making films”

We spoke to the winner of the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award about her film, which follows the meeting of survivors from the Ukraine-Russia War and the Bosnian War  

29/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | CineLink Industry Days

Thanasis Neofotistos • Director of The Boy With the Light-blue Eyes

Interview: Thanasis Neofotistos • Director of The Boy With the Light-blue Eyes

“I found the jury’s description of the film as a ‘modern fable’ very insightful and descriptive of what we aspire to create”

We spoke to the winner of this year’s Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days about his fascinating-sounding new project  

29/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | CineLink Industry Days

Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski  • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

Interview: Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

"We wanted to show the healing process of the women traumatised by war and rape, but from their inner person"

The Croatian film about female victims of war crimes won the Human Rights Award in the festival's Documentary Competition, and its creators talk to us about it  

24/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Igor Ivanko  • Director of Fragile Memory

Interview: Igor Ivanko • Director of Fragile Memory

"The film archive of my grandfather (and cinematographer) is unique because it is a personal as well a professional one"

The Ukrainian filmmaker talks about what's behind his work, which has just received the Special Jury Award in the festival's Documentary Competition  

24/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi  • Director of Six Weeks

Interview: Noemi Veronika Szakonyi • Director of Six Weeks

"The six-week adoption law in Hungary is a very suspenseful situation for a film"

The Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young mother of an unwanted child who has six weeks to change her mind and get her child back, if she so wishes  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Dominik Mencej  • Director of Riders

Interview: Dominik Mencej • Director of Riders

"This is the Slovenian version of Easy Rider, structured like a memory of recent times"

The Slovenian filmmaker talks about how he looked back at the recent past of the Balkans while drawing inspiration from Dennis Hopper's landmark film  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Aida Begic  • Director of A Ballad

Interview: Aida Begic • Director of A Ballad

"I wanted to make a love story and experiment with everything that is 'forbidden' in arthouse cinema"

The Bosnian filmmaker tried her hand at romantic comedy for the first time in her latest film, which opened the Sarajevo Film Festival  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Sarajevo’s CineLink takes the temperature on Ukrainian film production amidst the war

Sarajevo’s CineLink takes the temperature on Ukrainian film production amidst the war

Four leading Ukrainian industry figures – including acclaimed directors Maryna Er Gorbach and Maksym Nakonechnyi – discussed their inspiring and ongoing work as the war continues to rage  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | CineLink Industry Days

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