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Festival In Focus: As Sarajevo Film Festival’s 30th Edition Moves To New Headquarters, The Manifesto Remains The Same: “We Want To See The Local Film Industry Thrive”
When the Sarajevo Film Festival was born in the midst of the Bosnian War in 1995, the festival’s initial aim was to reconstruct and regenerate the capital city and its inhabitants who had been cut off from the rest of the world during the four-year siege.
Sarajevo opens on August 16 with the world premiere of Danis Tanović’s My Late Summer, a comedy-drama about a young woman who comes to a remote island to solve her family inheritance issues. While last year’s unprecedented dual writers-actors strikes stopped a number of stars from attending the talent-friendly festival, the 30th edition looks set to draw in a host of top-tier Hollywood names. For him, the standout milestones of the festival include its first editions, which were held in reclaimed places in the city that had been either destroyed during the siege or completely neglected, building its industry segment CineLink in 2003 and adding its popular television strand in 2016.
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