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SARAJEVO 2017

Sarajevo announces its Feature Competition

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- The selection includes seven films, three of which will world-premiere at the gathering

Sarajevo announces its Feature Competition
Daybreak by Gentian Koçi

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the line-up of its Feature Competition. The selection includes three world premieres: Daybreak [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gentian Koçi
film profile
]
, the first feature filmby Albanian director Gentian Koçi, Grain [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Semih Kaplanoğlu
film profile
]
by Turkey's Semih Kaplanoğlu (the winner of the Berlinale's Golden Bear with Honey [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Semih Kaplanoglu
film profile
]
in 2010) and Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emanuel Pârvu
film profile
]
, the feature debut by Romania's Emanuel Pârvu.

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Other films in the line-up are Stephan Komandarev's Un Certain Regard title Directions [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stephan Komandarev
film profile
]
(Bulgaria/Germany/Macedonia), Rezo Gigineshvili's Berlinale Panorama Special entry Hostages [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Irakli Kvirikadze
interview: Rezo Gigineishvili
film profile
]
(Georgia/Russia/Poland), Elina Psykou's Tribeca-screened Son of Sofia [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elina Psykou
film profile
]
(Greece/France/Bulgaria) and Georgian director Ana Urushadze's first feature, Scary Mother [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ana Urushadze
film profile
]
, which will bow in Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present section before heading to Sarajevo. 

In the selection's non-competition segment of Gala Screenings, Sarajevo audiences will get the chance to see the animated feature Birds Like Us [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Bosnian filmmakers Faruk Šabanović and Amela Ćuhara, which features the voices of Alicia Vikander, Jeremy Irons and Jim Broadbent; and Men Don't Cry [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alen Drljević
film profile
]
by Alen Drljević, which world-premiered at the recent Karlovy Vary Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. 

Here is the full list of Sarajevo Feature Competition titles:

Competition

Daybreak [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gentian Koçi
film profile
]
 – Gentian Koçi (Albania/Greece)
Grain [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Semih Kaplanoğlu
film profile
]
 – Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey/Germany/France/Sweden/Qatar) 
Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emanuel Pârvu
film profile
]
 – Emanuel Pârvu (Romania) 
Directions [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stephan Komandarev
film profile
]
– Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria/Germany/Macedonia) 
Hostages [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Irakli Kvirikadze
interview: Rezo Gigineishvili
film profile
]
– Rezo Gigineishvili (Georgia/Russia/Poland)
Scary Mother [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ana Urushadze
film profile
]
– Ana Urushadze (Georgia) 
Son of Sofia [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elina Psykou
film profile
]
– Elina Psykou (Greece/France/Bulgaria)

Out of competition – Gala Screenings 

Birds Like Us [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
 – Faruk Šabanović, Amela Ćuhara (Bosnia and Herzegovina/UK/Turkey/USA)
Men Don’t Cry [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alen Drljević
film profile
]
 - Alen Drljević (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Slovenia/Croatia/Germany) 

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