It’s mid-summer, which means European film festivals — from Karlovy Vary to Locarno and, now, Sarajevo — start to offer up alternative programming as the busy Fall season looms.
Now in its 21st year, the Sarajevo Film Festival is bringing world premieres as well as buzzy Cannes titles to Bosnia. Those who missed Sony Pictures Classics pickup “Son of Saul,” the Holocaust drama that took the Coens’ Cannes jury prize and is now Hungary’s Oscar submission, can see it here. (Trailer below.)
READ MORE: Hungary Submits “Son of Saul” to Oscars
Also from Cannes are Quinzaine winner “Mustang,” “Panama,” “The High Sun” and “The Treasure,” from acclaimed Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, who helmed postmodern procedural “Police, Adjective.” Director Andrei Cohn will also represent Romania with “Back Home.”
The festival, like this year’s Venice, has also made room for women directors. Athina Rachel Tsangari, one in a new wave of Greek filmmakers, will present “Chevalier” in Sarajevo after screening in competition at Locarno, which runs August 5 through 15. Her flippant comedy “Attenberg,” from 2010, was a real treat.
Here’s the Sarajevo lineup.
WORLD PREMIERES:
OUR EVERYDAY LIFE / NAŠA SVAKODNEVNA PRIČA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, 2015, 90 min.
Director: Ines Tanović
First Feature
ENTANGLEMENT / DOLANMA
Turkey, 2015, 86 min.
Director: Tunç Davut
First Feature
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE:
BACK HOME / ACASĂ LA TATA
Romania, 2014, 91 min.
Director: Andrei Cohn
First Feature
REGIONAL PREMIERES:
CHEVALIER
Greece, 2015, 99 min.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
THE HIGH SUN / ZVIZDAN
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, 2015, 123 min.
Director: Dalibor Matanić
MUSTANG
Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar, 2015, 94 min.
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
First Feature
PANAMA
Serbia, 2015, 105 min.
Director: Pavle Vučković
First Feature
SON OF SAUL / SAUL FIA
Hungary, 2015, 107 min.
Director: László Nemes
First Feature
SUPERWORLD / SUPERWELT
Austria, 2015, 120 min.
Director: Karl Markovics
THE TREASURE / COMOARA
Romania, France, 2015, 89 min.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
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