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Seven first features in Sarajevo competition

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The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the main competition for its 17th edition, which will run July 22-30. Among the eight films, seven are first features and primarily deal with youth-oriented subject matter, or have young protagonists.

The one world premiere in the competition is Najc Gazivoda’s A Trip (Slovenia), a low-budget road movie dealing with the reunion of three young people.

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Two international premieres are Aldo Tardozzi’s Spots (Croatia) about two young girls who meet one night in a club and are forced to stay together; and Seyfettin Tokmak's Broken Mussels (Turkey), a moving story of two children lost in the jungle of Istanbul, dreaming of a better life. Tokmak's film was developed through Sarajevo's co-production market CineLink and won one of its Work-in-Progress awards last year.

Other titles are the Rotterdam opener Wasted Youth by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel (Greece); Breathing [+see also:
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by Karl Markovics (Austria); Konstantin Bojanov’s Ave [+see also:
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(Bulgaria), Bujar Alimani’s Amnesty [+see also:
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(Albania-Greece-France), the winner of the CICAE Award in the Forum of New Cinema section at the Berlinale; and the only second film in the Competition, Catalin Mitulescu’s Un Certain Regard entry Loverboy [+see also:
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(Romania).

The Cineuropa Prize will be awarded to one of the films in the main competition.

There are 24 films in the Documentary Competition, out of which seven are world premieres, predominantly from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the Short Film Competition, there are four world premieres among 11 films.

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