A Hollywood Murder and Queer Life in Hungary: Sarajevo’s CineLink Award Winners Unveiled

A Hollywood Murder and Queer Life in Hungary: Sarajevo’s CineLink Award Winners Unveiled

The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the winners of its 2025 CineLink Industry Days Awards, including the Places Half Empty, a portrait of a queer relationship in Hungary under far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which received the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award. Among other winners is Gorilla, recipient of the TV Drama Vision Pitch Award, which…

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‘The Pavilion’ Director on Returning to Film to Take on “Global Problems” in Retirement Home Drama

‘The Pavilion’ Director on Returning to Film to Take on “Global Problems” in Retirement Home Drama

The world premiere of Dino Mustafić’s Bosnian unusual dark comedy The Pavilion, set in a retirement home, will open the 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival on Friday evening The movie focuses on “a group of residents in a retirement home who, after years of abuse and humiliation, decide to stage an armed revolt,” explains a synopsis. “Armed with illegal…

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Five Projects Selected for Southeast European Female Filmmakers Support Program

Five Projects Selected for Southeast European Female Filmmakers Support Program

Five film projects have been selected for this year’s Female Filmmakers Support Program, picked by the Uniqa See Future Foundation, in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival and Slano Film Days. Launched in 2024, the initiative “supports and empowers women filmmakers from the six Southeast European countries where Uniqa Insurance Group operates, namely Bosnia and…

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