Due to tremendously elevated concern concerning the epidemiological state of affairs in Sarajevo, and report circumstances of COVID-19 an infection in the metropolis in the previous a number of days, the Sarajevo Film Festival have made the resolution to conduct the 2020 version of all pageant occasions fully on-line from 14 to 21 August.
The world premiere of FOCUS, GRANDMA, the most up-to-date movie by Bosnian director Pjer Žalica, opens the programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival. The movie will be obtainable for viewing worldwide, at ondemand.sff.ba – the Sarajevo Film Festival’s on-line platform.
Ondemand.sff.ba is the central hub for all the movie screenings, programmes and occasions of this 12 months’s Sarajevo Film Festival – not simply for native audiences but in addition for movie lovers throughout the area and round the world. Ondemand.sff.ba is a VOD platform that permits customers to subscribe to the complete pageant programme for seven days, or choose particular person titles and content material. Ondemand.sff.ba was developed in cooperation with Festival Scope and Shift72 Streaming Services, a number one on-demand content material streaming firm from New Zealand.
Ondemand.sff.ba will characteristic latest regional and world cinema titles together with world and worldwide premieres. By registering on ondemand.sff.ba, viewers will entry movies in response to regional and territorial availability.
Users of ondemand.sff.ba can also entry different pageant content material, together with unique masterclasses with famend filmmakers throughout the world. The Sarajevo Film Festival Masterclass Programme is organised in cooperation with Variety and will be obtainable worldwide through the Variety Streaming Room.
As beforehand introduced, CineLink Industry Days will be held on-line from 15 to 20 August 2020. As with the relaxation of the pageant occasions, there will be no onsite CineLink components. Detailed details about this 12 months’s business programme will be obtainable at cinelinkindustrydays.com. Talks on the newest business tendencies with greater than 40 movie professionals from round the globe will be obtainable on ondemand.sff.ba beneath CineLink Talks. The 10 sizzling subjects of dialogue will be debated on-line, in cooperation with the Documentary Campus and Screen International.
A complete of 49 movies will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Festival’s 4 competitors sections – for characteristic, documentary, quick and scholar movie – will characteristic 29 world, 6 worldwide, 2 european, 11 regional and 1 Bosnian-Herzegovinian premieres.
This 12 months, the Sarajevo Film Festival Selection staff lead by Creative Director Izeta Građević has seen 750 movies submitted for the Festival, together with 130 characteristic fiction movies, 220 documentary, 250 quick and 150 scholar titles.
Elma Tataragić, selector of the Competition Programme – Feature Film picked eight titles. The choice options 4 world premieres, one european premier and three regional premieres.
Rada Šešić, selector of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film picked 16 titles. The choice options eight world premieres, two worldwide premier, one European, 4 regional premieres and one Bosnian-Herzegovinian premieres.
Ten titles chosen by Elma Tataragić will be screened in the Competition Programme – Short Film. The choice options seven world, one worldwide and two regional premieres.
Asja Krsmanović, selector of the Competition Programme – Student Film picked 15 titles. The choice options ten world premieres, three worldwide and two regional premieres.
The programme is open for movies and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbejan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.
