29th SFF Kicks Off Today in Sarajevo

AJB DOC Film Festival award will be presented, and two films co-produced by Al Jazeera Balkans will be shown at 29th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF).

AJB DOC Film Festival is happy to announce cooperation with the 29th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) which will be held from May 11th to 18th of August in Sarajevo.

This year's edition of the DOCU Rough Cut Boutique, a regional platform dedicated to documentary projects in the advanced phase of the editing process, gathers 5 important projects. Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival/ AJB DOC Award of €2,000 will be given to the best project selected by our representatives. Also, at the margins of the SFF, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival networking breakfast for industry professionals will be organized. The event is by invitation only.

At the SFF two films co-produced by Al Jazeera Balkans will be shown, "Mamula All Inclusive" by Aleksandar Reljić as part of the Dealing with the Past Programme and "Snajka: Diary of Expectations" by Tea Vidović Dalipi as part of the 15th Human Rights Day.

The film "Mamula All Inclusive" by Aleksandar Reljić will have its world premiere at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival which will be screened on 12th of August 2023 at 14:00 at Cineplexx Sarajevo 2.

Synopsis: Ivo Marković, a surviving former inmate of the Mamula prison camp, opposed the decision of Montenegro's government to build a luxury hotel at the location of a World War II prison camp where countless civilians suffered.

Tea Vidović Dalipi's film "Snajka: Diary of Expectations" be shown on August 14 at 12:00 at the Cineplexx Sarajevo 7. Documentary screening will be followed by a panel discussion of “Navigating Expectations: The Road to Understanding Discrimination and Cultural Differences”, moderated by journalist and director Robert Zuber.

Synopsis: We enter every relationship burdened by identities bequeathed by our primary families, be they economic, social, or religious. Love, marriage, and parenthood between Tea, a Croatian woman, and Mirsad, a Roma man, seems in a sense to be mission impossible, because their daily life will be scrutinized by their respective families’ wholly different customs and value systems. Burdened by rigorous tradition on the one hand and economic pressure on the other, the couple will expose themselves to the possibility of their loved ones’ failed expectations, at risk of jeopardizing their own relationship and a better future for themselves and their newborn daughter Frida.

Don’t forget to watch "In the Heart of the Festival - SFF" at Al Jazeera Balkans from 11th to 18th of August starting at 11:05 PM Chosen documentaries that were presented at the SFF during previous years will be shown – Trieste, Yugoslavia, When Pigs Come, Two Schools and Enemies.