Danis Tanović's Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair and the omnibus Letters from the Ends of the World to open Sarajevo
- The Oscar winner's new film and the work of an international group of directors from Béla Tarr's Sarajevo film.factory will kick off the festival, which has also announced its Open Air programme
Danis Tanović's Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair [+see also:
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Letters from the Ends of the World will have its world premiere at the opening of the Sarajevo Film Festival as part of the Special Screening programme. This omnibus film is an international chronicle of the initial days of lockdown due to COVID-19, through 14 private home movies. It is the work of the film collective Bistrik7, comprising 13 international auteurs united by the experience of being the first generation of graduates at Béla Tarr’s film.factory in Sarajevo. The directors are Ghazi Alqudcy, Graeme Cole, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Grant Gulczynski, Marta Hernaiz Pidal, Namsuk Kim, Bianca Lucas, Stefan Malešević, Patrick Marshall, Aleksandra Niemczyk, Pilar Palomero, Emma Rozanski and Gustavo Vega.
The festival has also announced the line-up of its Open Air programme, which will close with the world premiere of Toma by Serbian actor-producer-director Dragan Bjelogrlić. The film is billed as an impressionistic portrait of Toma Zdravković, a legendary singer popular across the former Yugoslavia throughout the second half of the 20th century. He is portrayed by Milan Marić, best known internationally for his role in Aleksei German Jr's Berlinale 2018 competition entry Dovlatov [+see also:
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Other films in the Open Air programme include Florian Zeller's The Father [+see also:
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