The Sarajevo Movie Competition will debut 15 characteristic movies throughout its 4 competitors strands throughout its 2025 version, operating from August 15 to 22.
A complete of fifty movies will compete for the pageant’s Coronary heart of Sarajevo awards. The pageant’s 4 competitors sections for characteristic, documentary, quick, and pupil movies can even display screen six worldwide, 28 regional, and two nationwide premieres.
Saying as we speak’s batch of titles, Sarajevo Artistic Director Izeta Građević, stated: “The competitors packages of the thirty first Sarajevo Movie Competition convey collectively filmmakers who, every from their very own perspective and in varied movie codecs and genres, discover how we dwell and the way we survive inside complicated and unstable social frameworks. The spine of this 12 months’s competitors packages are movies that, transcending nationwide boundaries, stay true to the common tales that form our lives. On this vary – from matters that cope with as we speak to those who query the previous – this choice opens up area to recollect, by way of movie tales, what all of us have in widespread: the necessity for that means, for closeness, for understanding – ourselves and others.”
The pageant stated Građević and his programming staff noticed 1036 movies, together with 195 characteristic fiction movies, 291 documentaries, and 550 quick and pupil titles.
The Sarajevo Movie Competition competitors programme is open for movies and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Türkiye, and Ukraine.
The jury for this 12 months’s pageant will probably be led by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. He will probably be joined by Berlinale head Tricia Tuttle, actor Dragan Mićanović, writer-actor-director Emanuel Pârvu, and writer-director Ena Sendijarević.
Right here’s the total listing of titles:
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM 2025
1. OTTER / VIDRA, Srđan Vuletić (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Kosovo*, 2025, 88 min.) – World premiere
2. STARS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE / MINDEN CSILLAG, Renátó Olasz (Hungary, 2025, 83 min.) – World premiere
3. YUGO FLORIDA, Vladimir Tagić (Serbia, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Montenegro, 2025, 112 min.) – World premiere
4. DJ AHMET, Georgi M. Unkovski (North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, 2025, 99 min.) – Regional premiere
5. FANTASY, Kukla (Slovenia, North Macedonia, 2025, 98 min.) – Regional premiere
6. GOD WILL NOT HELP / BOG NEĆE POMOĆI, Hana Jušić (Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia, 2025, 135 min.) – Regional premiere
7. SORELLA DI CLAUSURA, Ivana Mladenović (Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain, 2025, 103 min.) – Regional premiere
8. WHITE SNAIL, Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter (Austria, Germany, 2025, 115 min.) – Regional premiere
9. WIND, TALK TO ME / VETRE, PRIČAJ SA MNOM, Stefan Đorđević (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 100 min.) – Regional premiere
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM 2025
1. BOSNIAN KNIGHT / BOSANSKI VITEZ, Tarik Hodžić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 2025, 79 min.) – World premiere
2. I SAW A ‘SUNO’ / SUNO DIKHLEM, KATALIN BARSONY (Hungary, Belgium, 2025, 92 min.) – World premiere
3. KITE / CHARTAETOS, Thanos Psichogios (Greece, 2025, 15 min.) – World premiere
4. STEEL HOTEL SONG, Bojan Stojčić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 19 min.) – World premiere
5. LETTERS / PISMA, Aysel Küçüksu (Bulgaria, 2025, 11 min.) – Worldwide premiere
6. MY DAD’S LESSONS / LEKCIJE MOG TATE, Dalija Dozet (Croatia, 2025, 62 min.) – Worldwide premiere
7. RED SLIDE / CRVENI TOBOGAN, Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia, 2025, 27 min.) – Worldwide premiere
8. THIRD WORLD / TREĆI SVIJET, Arsen Oremović (Croatia, 2025, 101 min.) – Worldwide premiere
9. CUBA & ALASKA, Yegor Troyanovsky (Ukraine, France, Belgium, 2025, 93 min.) – Regional premiere
10. DIVIA, Dmytro Hreshko (Ukraine, Poland, The Netherlands, USA, 2025, 79 min.) – Regional premiere
11. DREAMERS: PEOPLE OF THE LIGHT / XƏYALPƏRƏSTLƏR: İŞIĞIN UŞAQLARI, Imam Hasanov (Azerbaijan, 2025, 86 min.) – Regional premiere
12. EVERYTIME YOU LEAVE, YOU ARE BORN AGAIN / SVAKI PUT KAD ODEŠ, PONOVO SE RAĐAŠ, Mladen Bundalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, 2025, 24 min.) – Regional premiere
13. I BELIEVE THE PORTRAIT SAVED ME / MUA BESOJ MË SHPËTOJ PORTRETI, Alban Muja (Kosovo*, The Netherlands, 2025, 10 min.) – Regional premiere
14. IN HELL WITH IVO, Kristina Nikolova (Bulgaria, USA, 2025, 80 min.) – Regional premiere
15. MILITANTROPOS, Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgoviy (Ukraine, Austria, France, 2025, 111 min.) – Regional premiere
16. OUR TIME WILL COME / UNSERE ZEIT WIRD KOMMEN, Ivette Löcker (Austria, 2025, 105 min.) – Regional premiere
17. THE MEN’S LAND / KACEBIS MITSA, Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani (Georgia, Hungary, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
18. SLET 1988, Marta Popivoda (Serbia, Germany, France, 2025, 22 min.) – Regional premiere
19. 9-MONTH CONTRACT, Ketevan Vashagashvili (Georgia, Bulgaria, Germany, 2025, 77 min.) – B&H premiere
20. TATA, Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania, Germany, The Netherlands, 2025, 82 min.) – B&H premiere
21. OHO FILM, Damjan Kozole (Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 93 min.) – Worldwide premiere, out of competitors
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM 2025
1. BERNA’S EYES / SYTË E BERNËS, Ermal Gërdovci (Kosovo*, North Macedonia, 2025, 17 min.) – World premiere
2. DESERT, SHE / IERIMOS, Ioanna Digenaki (Greece, 2025, 14 min.) – World premiere
3. PROCEDURE / PROSEDÜR, Rabia Özmen (Türkiye, 2025, 18 min.) – World premiere
4. ALIȘVERIȘ, Vasile Todinca (Romania, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
5. ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG, Lili Koss (Bulgaria, 2025, 19 min.) – Regional premiere
6. HYSTERICAL FIT OF LAUGHTER / HISTERIČNI NAPAD SMEHA, Matija Gluščević, Dušan Zorić (Serbia, Croatia, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
7. INDEX, Radu Muntean (Romania, 2025, 28 min.) – Regional premiere
8. THE SPECTACLE, Bálint Kenyeres (Hungary, France, 2025, 17 min.) – Regional premiere
9. UPON SUNRISE / KAD SVANE, Stefan Ivančić (Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 15 min.) – Regional premiere
10. WINTER IN MARCH / LUMI SAADAB MEID, Natalia Mirzoyan (Armenia, Estonia, France, Belgium, 2025, 16 min.) – Regional premiere
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – STUDENT FILM 2025
1. AFTER CLASS / DUPĂ ORE, Marius Papară (Romania, 2025, 18 min.) – World premiere
2. FOUND & LOST, Reza Rasouli (Austria, 2025, 17 min.) – World premiere
3. HOME, A SPACE BETWEEN US, Effi Rabsilber (Greece, 2025, 16 min.) – World premiere
4. RAHLO, Jozo Schmuch (Croatia, 2025, 19 min.) – World premiere
5. TARIK, Adem Tutić (Serbia, 2025, 27 min.) – World premiere
6. CURFEW / KOMENDANTSKA HODYNA, Yelyzaveta Toptyhina (Ukraine, 2025, 23 min.) – Worldwide premiere
7. BACKSTROKE / SIRTÜSTÜ, Asya Günen (Türkiye, 2025, 14 min.) – Regional premiere
8. LIVING STONES / ÉLŐ KÖVEK, Jakob Ladányi Jancsó (Hungary, 2025, 20 min.) – Regional premiere
9. MILK AND COOKIES / FURSECURI ȘI LAPTE, Andrei-Tache Codreanu (Romania, 2025, 21 min.) – Regional premiere
10. PENINSULA / POLUOTOK, David Gašo (Croatia, 2025, 19 min.) – Regional premiere
11. WISH YOU WERE EAR, Mirjana Balogh (Hungary, 2025, 10 min.) – Regional premiere
