SARAJEVO: On 3 March 2023, with a great applause, filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina said their last goodbye to their beloved friend and colleague, producer Amira Lekić, who passed away at 48.

SARAJEVO: Mirza Begovic’s comedy Amanet, distributed by Una Film, finished 5th in the Top 10 in Bosnia and Herzegovina with 30,732 admissions and 96,463 EUR / 188,667 KM gross. Pjer Žalica’s May Labour Day / Praznik rada (Obala Art Centar) is number 10 with 23,279 admissions and 78,190 EUR / 152,927 KM gross.

SARAJEVO: Film Fund Sarajevo has announced production, minority coproduction and development grants for 2022. The fund operated with increased funds this year.

SARAJEVO: Romanian directors Daniel Bărnuți and Alexandra Lizeta Bărnuți bring a second marriage documentary to the Docu Rough Cut Boutique with their first long documentary My Muslim Husband. The regional platform dedicated to documentary projects in postproduction is organised by the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Balkan Documentary Center.

SARAJEVO: After winning the Heart of Sarajevo for his debut feature Tilva Roš (Kiselodete, 2010), Nikola Ležaić returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival to present the project of his sophomore feature Mum at the CineLink Co-production Market, running 13 - 18 August 2022. The film is a Serbian/Croatian coproduction.

SARAJEVO: Nadejda Koseva, whose debut feature Irina (Art Fest, 2018) received an EFA Discovery Award nomination, is presenting her sophomore feature The Trap at CineLink Work in Progress, running 13 - 18 August 2022. The film is a Bulgarian/German coproduction.

SARAJEVO: Georgian documentary director, cinematographer and editor Giorgi Parkosadze is presenting his long documentary project Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer at the Docu Rough Cut Boutique, a regional platform dedicated to documentary projects in postproduction organised by the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Balkan Documentary Center. The film is a Georgian/Greek coproduction.

SARAJEVO: Tea Vidović Dalipi is presenting her first and personal documentary project Snajka at the Docu Rough Cut Boutique, a regional platform for documentaries in the advanced phase of editing, organised by the Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center. Snajka is a coproduction between Croatia, Kosovo and Italy.

SARAJEVO: Mate Ugrin, whose Everything Ahead won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film in 2021, is returning to the Sarajevo Film Festival to present his debut feature project at the CineLink Co-production Market (13 - 18 August 2022). Petty Thieves is a German/Croatian/French coproduction.

SARAJEVO: Hungarian director Gergő Somogyvári will be presenting his first long documentary Fairy Garden at the Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the regional platform dedicated to documentaries in postproduction organised by the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Balkan Documentary Center.