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2303 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Cat in the Wall

Interview: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova • Directors of Cat in the Wall

“We wanted to create a bridge between the East and the West to check if the grass was greener on the other side”

We chatted to Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, who are showing their first fiction feature, Cat in the Wall, at Sarajevo after a world premiere at Locarno  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Review: Open Door

Review: Open Door

Albanian filmmaker Florenc Papas' first feature is a small-scale road movie about two sisters in a deeply patriarchal society  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Review: Mo

Review: Mo

Radu Dragomir’s thriller focuses on the volatile dynamic between a mature professor and his attractive student  

20/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Review: Heidi

Review: Heidi

Cătălin Mitulescu strikes gold with his understated story of an ageing policeman  

20/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Florenc Papas • Director of Open Door

Interview: Florenc Papas • Director of Open Door

"Albania is a male-dominated society; women suffer a lot of inequality, especially in rural areas, and I care about these characters"

Albanian-born filmmaker Florenc Papas took a moment to dissect his feature debut, Open Door, which is world-premiering at the Sarajevo Film Festival  

20/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Rounds

Interview: Stephan Komandarev • Director of Rounds

"This film aims to diagnose the sickness in our society, to show the problems and to prompt the audience to search for the answer"

Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev unpicked his latest feature, Rounds, centring on three pairs of police officers on patrol in Sofia over the course of one night  

19/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Ines Tanović • Director of The Son

Interview: Ines Tanović • Director of The Son

"I wanted the viewer to understand the system of the life we are living because I think people in Western Europe don't really understand Bosnia"

We sat down with Bosnian filmmaker Ines Tanović to discuss her second feature, The Son, a truly generational film screening at Sarajevo  

19/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Review: The Son

Review: The Son

The second feature by Bosnian filmmaker Ines Tanović has officially opened the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival and represents a truly generational Sarajevo film  

19/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Review: South Terminal

Review: South Terminal

Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche keeps things cryptic in this Kafkaesque tale of a country in meltdown, screening in competition at Locarno  

19/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Basil Da Cunha  • Director of O fim do mundo

Interview: Basil Da Cunha • Director of O fim do mundo

"I didn’t arrive in Reboleira thinking ‘I’m a director’. I was first accepted and respected as a person"

Swiss and Portuguese director Basil Da Cunha tells us about his latest film O fim do mundo, screened in competition at Locarno  

19/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

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