Sarajevo reveals Documentary Competition

by Vladan Petković

17/07/2013 - The Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed its Documentary Competition, featuring 7 world premieres. Danny Glover is this year's curator for the Katrin Cartlidge Award

The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 16-24) has revealed its Documentary Competition. The selection includes six world and four international premieres.

Sarajevo’s Documentary Competition will feature 21short and feature films. The six world premieres in the selection include A Slave by Bosnian director Pjer Žalica, known internationally for fiction films Days and Hours and Fuse [+see also:
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Mother Europe by Slovenian director Petra Seliškar, whose Grandmothers of Revolution played in Sarajevo’s documentary competition in 2006; Marta Popivoda’s Berlinale Forum Expanded entry Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (Serbia-France-Germany); and the winner of Romanian Days Award For Feature Film at the Transylvania International Film Festival Here… I Mean There by Laura Capatana-Juller are among the international premieres.

Regional premieres include Nebojša Slijepčević’s Gangster of Love [+see also:
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The festival has also announced that this year’s the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award will be curated by Danny Glover. The American actor will present the winner of the award, a new cinematic voice whose work embodies Katrin Cartlidge’s “integrity of spirit and commitment to independent film”. Cartlidge, who died in 2002, was a British actress best known for her work with Mike Leigh and whose played her last role in Danis Tanović’s No Man’s Land.

Over the past nine years the foundation has appointed a curator, selected from Cartlidge’s friends and colleagues, who in turn chooses a recipient for the annual award, a cash bursary, which is announced at a special red caet gala at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

SARAJEVO DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: FULL LIST

WORLD PREMIERES

Autofocus, director: Boris Poljak(Croatia)

Crazy About You, Danilo Marunović(Montenegro)

Escape, Srdjan Keča (Serbia-Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Finding Family, Chris Leslie, Oggi Tomic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-UK)

Patient, Zdenko Jurilj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Screens, Hanna Slak(Slovenia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany)

A Slave, Pjer Žalica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES

Here... I Mean There, Laura Capatana – Juller (Romania)

Married to the Swiss Franc, Arsen Oremović (Croatia)