The Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs from 13-20 August this year, has announced that it is introducing a new prize: the Award for Promoting Gender Equality. The trophy, worth €7,500 and sponsored by Mastercard, will be handed to a first feature film directed by a woman, chosen from among titles in the Feature Competition, Documentary Competition, In Focus, Dealing with the Past and Kinoscope sections.

Thirteen films are eligible: Cristina Grosan's Things Worth Weeping For [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cristina Grosan
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interview : Juja Dobrachkous
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interview : Milica Tomovic
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interview : Norika Sefa
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interview : Jacqueline Lentzou
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interview : Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
interview : Gracija Filipovic
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interview : Luana Bajrami
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interview : Blerta Basholli
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interview : Amalia Ulman
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interview : Laura Wandel
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interview : Prano Bailey-Bond
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The jury consists of festival programmers and curators Teresa Cavina (Italy) and Lorna Tee (Malaysia/Netherlands), and Serbian director Ognjen Glavonić.

Sarajevo has also announced this year's Dealing with the Past programme, which has the goal of conducting honest dialogue about the region’s recent past as a prerequisite for resolving the problems of the present that stem from the Yugoslav Wars. This year’s programme is divided into two sections, one of which focuses on seeking the truth by using both conventional and unconventional methods. This strand includes three films by Mads Brügger, The Ambassador, Cold Case Hammarskjöld [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mads Brügger
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The second section of the programme is focused on the conflicts that have yet to be resolved and their long-lasting impact on the communities affected by them. The films in this section include the world premiere of Maysoon Pachachi’s Our River… Our Sky (UK/UAE/Qatar/ Kuwait/Iraq/Germany/France) as well as The Voice of Ahmad, an anthology of seven short works about Arabs working in Israel, revolving around the 1966 film I Am Ahmad, and Najwa Najjar’s Between Heaven and Earth [+lire aussi :
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