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Sarajevo 2025 / Competition

20 articles available in total starting from 24/01/2025. Last article published on 28/08/2025.

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Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

Interview: Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

"My aim was to combine a poetic attitude with the rawness of reality"

Shot in stark black and white, the director's debut feature eschews traditional narrative structures in favour of mood, atmosphere and subtle gesture  

28/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Srđan Vuletić • Director of Otter

Interview: Srđan Vuletić • Director of Otter

"Our movie encourages you to accept that the only superpower you have is yourself"

Between resistance and imagination, the director's new film traces a tender coming-of-age process in the shadow of loss  

27/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Vladimir Tagić • Director of Yugo Florida

Interview: Vladimir Tagić • Director of Yugo Florida

"My character starts his journey with a storm around him, which starts producing the storm inside him"

We talked with the Serbian director about father-son dynamics, loneliness, masturbation, and pushing his lead actor beyond charm and into deeper emotional territory  

26/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Stefan Đorđević • Director of Wind, Talk to Me

Interview: Stefan Đorđević • Director of Wind, Talk to Me

"This film was my way of expressing grief, and my family said yes to it"

The Serbian director, winner of the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film, shares how his debut emerged from losing his mother  

26/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Review: Stars of Little Importance

Review: Stars of Little Importance

Renátó Olasz makes his directorial debut with this film looking at a pair of siblings coming home for Christmas and the memories stirred by this return  

25/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Review: Yugo Florida

Review: Yugo Florida

One of the year’s saddest films comes from Serbia’s Vladimir Tagić, who tells a father-son story that may lead male viewers to shed a tear or two  

22/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Kukla • Director of Fantasy

Interview: Kukla • Director of Fantasy

“I’ve always thought of Fantasy as someone who brings with her a gentle kind of disruption”

The Slovenian director chats to us about her feature-length follow-up to her award-winning short Sisters and about revisiting her trio of girls  

19/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Otter

Review: Otter

With his latest film, Srđan Vuletić attempts to step into the shoes of a teenage girl at a crucial moment in her life  

19/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Ivana Mladenović • Director of Sorella di Clausura

Interview: Ivana Mladenović • Director of Sorella di Clausura

“It’s not just reality or just fiction; it’s that middle ground where both come together to create something that can’t be separated”

The Serbian-Romanian filmmaker talks about her fourth feature, which follows a self-aware young woman in her pursuit of happiness at a time of crisis  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Sorella di Clausura

Review: Sorella di Clausura

A thirty-something “forever failure” tries to navigate life, love, money and sex in Ivana Mladenović’s newest feature  

14/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

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