20/07/2015 - The non-competitive sidebar includes 19 festival hits, 12 of which are first or second films, and 12 are also European productions

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced this year's Kinoscope programme, a non-competitive strand curated by Mike Goodridge, former Screen International editor and now CEO of Protagonist Pictures, as well as by Festivalscope's Alessandro Raja and Mathilde Henrot.

The 19-strong selection includes 12 films by first- or second-time filmmakers. "In programming Kinoscope this year, we found ourselves unconsciously veering towards work from new, young filmmakers," say the programmers in the press release. "We only realised this when the programme was complete – 12 out of the 19 features are from first- and second-time directors – but perhaps the nature of a festival programmer is to be surprised and delighted by fresh visions and new voices, so in retrospect, it’s perhaps not that much of a shock."

The programme features all kinds of genres and forms, from the purely narrative, historical In the Crosswind [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Martti Helde
interview: Martti Helde
film profile] by Martti Helde, through documentaries such as B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1978-1989 [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and Lydie Wisshaupt-Claudel's Killing Time [+see also:
trailer
film profile], to the art-horror A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Jeremy Saulnier's nasty Green Room, wrapping up with Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse.

Big festival winners in the programme include Taxi, The Lobster [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
film profile], 45 Years [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Andrew Haigh
film profile] and the recent Jerusalem Film Festival winner Tikkun.

The other European productions or co-productions featured in the programme include: Fidelio: Alice's Journey [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lucie Borleteau
film profile]; The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals; Out Of Nature [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ole Giæver
film profile]; Phoenix [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Christian Petzold
film profile]; and The Project of the Century [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile].

Here is the full Kinoscope programme:

45 Years
United Kingdom, 2015, 93 min
Director: Andrew Haigh

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Germany, 2015, 92 min
Directors: Jörg A Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange

Embrace of the Serpent
Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, 2015, 125 min
Director: Ciro Guerra

Fidelio: Alice's Journey
France, 2014, 97 min
Director: Lucie Borleteau

Fires on the Plain
Japan, 2014, 87 min
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
USA, 2014, 101 min
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour

The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals [+see also:
trailer
film profile]
Iceland, United Kingdom, 2015, 70 min
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson

Green Room
USA, 2015, 94 min
Director: Jeremy Saulnier

In the Crosswind
Estonia, 2014, 87 min
Director: Martti Helde

Killing Time [+see also:
trailer
film profile]
France, Belgium, 2015, 88 min
Director: Lydie Wisshaupt-Claudel

The Lobster
Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, 2015, 118 min
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Out Of Nature
Norway, 2014, 80 min
Directors: Ole Giæver, Marte Vold

Phoenix
Germany, Poland, 2014, 98 min
Director: Christian Petzold

The Project of the Century
Argentina, Cuba, Germany, Switzerland, 2015, 100 min
Director: Carlos Quintela

The Russian Woodpecker [+see also:
film review
film profile]
Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, 2015, 82 min
Director: Chad Gracia

Taxi
Iran, 2015, 82 min
Director: Jafar Panahi

Tikkun
Israel, 2015, 120 min
Director: Avishai Sivan

Viaje
Costa Rica, 2015, 71 min
Director: Paz Fábrega

Yakuza Apocalypse
Japan, 2015, 115 min
Director: Takashi Miike