The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its competition line-up for this year’s festival, with Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage and Ukrainian helmer Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary ‘Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles’ selected in the feature film and documentary categories respectively.A total of 51 films will compete for the fest’s coveted Heart Of Sarajevo awards across four competition sections: feature films, documentary, short and student film.
The selection includes 20 world premieres, eight international premiers, one European premiere, 21 regional premiers and one Bosnia & Herzegovina premiere.Additional titles featured in the main competition program this year include Aida Begić’s A Ballad, Dominik Mencej’s Riders and Ukrainian-Turkish production Klondike.
In the documentary section, Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, whose film Pamfir played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year, will see his Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles doc have its world premiere in the section.The program was open for films and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbejan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.The 28th edition of the Sarajavo Film Festival takes place August 12-16.Here’s the full list:COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM 2022HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM – Award in the amount of 16,000 €, co-sponsored by Tourism Association of Canton SarajevoHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR – Award in the amount of 10,000 €, sponsored by United Nations in Bosnia and HerzegovinaHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS – Award in the amount of 2,500 €HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR – Award in the
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