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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “Mother Mara,” which has its world premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival as a gala screening, playing out of competition, has debuted its trailer (below). World sales are being represented by Antipode Sales International. The Serbian drama stars and is directed by Mirjana Karanovic, who previously starred in and directed Sundance competition title “A Good Wife.” As an actor she is best known for Jasmila Zbanic’s “Grbavica,” winner of the Berlin Golden Bear, and Emir Kusturica’s Oscar nominated and Cannes Palme d’Or winner “When Father Was Away on Business.” The film centers on Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, who is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Sarajevo Film Festival, which focuses on films from Southeast Europe, the South Caucasus and Ukraine, has selected 54 films to compete for its Heart of Sarajevo awards. Three films play out of competition.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor U.S. director-screenwriter Paul Schrader will serve as president of the features jury of the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs from Aug. 16 to 23.

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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina will open on Aug. 16 with the world premiere of “My Late Summer” by local filmmaker Danis Tanović, who won an Oscar with “No Man’s Land.” The comedy-drama centers on a young woman, Maja, who travels to a remote island to sort out her family’s inheritance.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Principal photography has ended on Georgian writer-director Ana Urushadze’s second film, “Supporting Role.” The first images have been released. It follows on from the success of Urushadze’s 2017 debut “Scary Mother,” which premiered and won best first feature at Locarno Film Festival before going on to pick up the top prize in Sarajevo. It was nominated for the European Film Academy’s Discovery Award and was Georgia’s entry for the 90th Academy Awards.

Joe Leydon Film Critic The thin line between cheating death and chasing it appears to have been smudged, repeatedly, by maverick video journalist Margaret Moth, the subject of first-time filmmaker Lucy Lawless’ fascinating documentary “Never Look Away.” At least, that’s the impression we’re left with at the end of this compact yet complex portrait of a singularly and aggressively unconventional war correspondent who inspired equal measures of admiration and anxiety among her friends, colleagues and lovers throughout her 20 years of assignments in the world’s trouble spots — Baghdad, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Zaire, you name it, she was there — for CNN. Something of an enigma even to those closest to her — “I never fully understood what was ticking inside of her” is a comment typical of responses by interviewees questioned by an off-camera Lawless — Moth was fond of proudly proclaiming, “I live life to the fullest.” But it was a life she repeatedly risked by going places, doing things and recording wartime horrors with such little regard for her own safety that a CNN teammate warned her: “There’s only so much Russian Roulette you can play.” It was also a life that she more or less reinvented herself to portray.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The 30th Sarajevo Film Festival will pay tribute to Palestinian director Elia Suleiman in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the art of film.” The filmmaker will be presented with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award and honored with a retrospective of his selected works in the festival’s “Tribute to” program. Suleiman was a guest at Sarajevo in 2019, where his film “It Must Be Heaven” was screened in the Open Air program.

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Shocking video footage has emerged capturing the moment an 'unruly passenger' was apparently dragged off a holiday flight in Serbia before he was arrested. The mobile phone footage was taken on board a plane from Manchester bound for Turkey that was forced to divert to Belgrade as a result.

Police stormed a plane from Manchester that had been forced to divert due to an 'unruly passenger' on board on Tuesday night (April 10).

The K’s are currently Number Two in the UK charts with their debut album ‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’. Vocalist Jamie Boyle has spoken to NME about doing battle with The Libertines, getting picked up by living legend Alan McGee and why guitar music will never die.‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’ was released last Friday (April 5) and according to the midweek chart update, is outselling records from the likes of Conan Gray, Beyoncé, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend and Olivia Rodrigo.“It’s mental. It’s one of those situations that just doesn’t seem real,” said Boyle.

Dancing on Ice fans have claimed to have spotted Miles Nazaire 'seething' after he lost out in the final to Ryan Thomas. The Made in Chelsea star and former Coronation Street actor went head-to-head after Adele Roberts left in third place mid-way through the last show.

Dancing on Ice viewers have praised Ryan Thomas for his 'class' move after he was announced as the series winner. The ITV skating competition's 2024 run came to a spectacular end on Sunday night (March 10) despite some last-minute drama.

Dancing on Ice viewers think they've spotted the comment the winner of the 2024 series was 'given away' before it was announced. Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern were back rinkside on Sunday night (March 10) as the final of the ITV skating competition took place.

Dancing On Ice could be axed following head judges Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s decision to retire from skating according to insiders. The ITV programme is also said to be struggling with a slump in ratings.

Dozens of skaters - many of which will go on to compete at an international level - will descend upon Blackpool in April for the town’s ice skating festival. It’s returning to Pleasure Beach Arena for its 55th year.

British ice skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have announced they will retire from skating next year, marking the 40th anniversary of their Olympic gold win.

Ice skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have announced that they are retiring from skating, forty years after their iconic Bolero routine.The pair have returned to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, where they won Olympic gold back in 1984, where they have shared the news of their retirement and upcoming farewell tour. Following the 2025 series of Dancing on Ice, the ice skaters, who serve as judges on the show, will embark on their farewell tour which will kick off at the OVO Arena in Wembley on 12 April 2025, and finish in Glasgow at the OVO Hydro a month later on 11 May.

British ice skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean announced earlier today that they would be retiring from skating next year. The news comes as they commemorate the 40th anniversary of their Olympic gold win.

Ice skating legends Torvill and Dean have announced that they are retiring, 40 years after they stunned the world with their Bolero routine.