22ND SARAJEVO

FILM FESTIVAL

12-20/ AUGUST/2016

THE JURY OF THE

22ND SARAJEVO

FILM FESTIVAL

Jury of the Competition Programme - Feature Film

ELIA SULEIMAN, President of the Jury Director (Palestine)Palestinian director Elia Suleiman was born in Nazareth. He directed his first two widely awarded short films INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT and HOMAGE BY ASSASSINATION while living in New York from 1981 to 1993. His debut feature film CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE won the Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In 2002, DIVINE INTER-VENTION won the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI International Crit-ics Prize of the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best Foreign Film Prize at the European Awards in Rome. In 2007, he was se-lected among 35 directors who contributed to a collective film TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA produced to honor the 60th anniver-sary of the Cannes Film Festival. His last feature THE TIME THAT REMAINS was screened in the official competition selection of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. 2012 Suleiman completed a short film DIARY OF A BEGINNER for inclusion in the collective feature 7 DAYS IN HAVANA. The film was selected for the official Un Certain Regard program of the Cannes Film Festival.Elia Suleiman is currently serving as artistic advisor for the Doha Film Institute and is preparing his next feature film.

ZEYNEP ATAKAN Producer (Turkey)In the period from 1986 to 1999, after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, Film and TV of the Marmara University, Atakan worked as assistant director and producer in television and advertising industry. In 2004 Atakan co-founded an ad-vertising production company and five years later she begun producing international film projects. In 2007, Atakan founded Zeyno Film. In 2010, she won the European Film Academy’s Prix Eurimages European Co-Production award, and founded YAPIMLAB. Atakan has been the chairwoman of SE-YAP, the Turkish Guild of Film Producers, since 2011. In 2014, she was

elected vice president of EWA, the European Women’s Audio-visual Network. She won the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award at the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival in 2014. Atakan produced Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s WINTER SLEEP, ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA, THREE MONKEYS and CLIMATES, as well as IN NOWHERE LAND by Tayfun Pirselimoglu and LOLA + BILIDIKID by Kutlug Ataman.

NIKOLA ĐURIČKO Actor (Serbia)Nikola Đuričko is a Belgrade-born Serbian actor. He studied acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, and made his film and TV debuts in 1984. He has an active career in film and television, as well as in theater and had appeared in numerous distinctive roles in theater and on film. His most recent credits include TV shows LEGENDS (2015) and THE LAST PANTHERS (2015), as well as films WORLD WAR Z (2013) by Marc Forster, IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (2011) by Angelina Jolie.

THOMAS HAILER Curator of the Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)Thomas Hailer advises the Berlin Festival Director in all ques-tions pertaining to the Competition and Berlinale Special programs and synchronizes program-related communication processes across the sections and departments of the Berli-nale. He is also consulting the Festival Director in the artistic positioning and structural development of the Berlinale, with special emphasis on the dovetailing of all individual sections with the European Film Market.He was Head of Berlinale’s Young Audience Section Generation from 2002 - 2008, a period marked by introduction of the 14plus competition program - the expansion aimed at includ-ing young adults. Hailer is the Head of Studies at the Akademie für Kindermedien, a training initiative by the German Children’s Film Society. Until 2008, his activities as a dramaturge and a script doctor included project supervision at the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film Foundation.

Elia Suleiman

Nikola Đuričko Thomas Hailer Angeliki Papoulia

Zeynep Atakan

ANGELIKI PAPOULIA Actress (Greece)Angeliki Papoulia was born in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Athens University (Theatre Studies) and the “Empros” Theatre Drama School in 2000. She played the leading role in DOGTOOTH, a Yorgos Lanthimos’s film that won the “Prix Un Certain Regard” of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Papoulia won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actress for the role in this film. She also appeared in the main role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s ALPS which won the Osella for Best Screenplay at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, as well as in Syllas Tzoumerkas’s A BLAST that premiered at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival. Her latest collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos was in THE LOBSTER which won the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Jury of the Competition Programme - Documentary Film

TINE FISCHER Founder and Festival Director of CPH:DOX (Denmark)Tine Fischer is the founder and Director of the international film festival CPH:DOX. She is also the director and founder of CPH:LAB and CPH:FORUM. For five years Fischer worked at the Danish Film Institute. She has been involved in the contemporary art scene as a partner in the art gallery Andersen_s Contemporary and as the curator of exhibitions focusing on art based film practices. In 2009 Fischer graduated from the European producers program EAVE. She is the owner of the Fischer Film production company and had produced ACCIDENTES GLORIOSOS by Mauro Andrizzi & Marcus Lindeen (Orizzonti Award at Venice Film Festival). She worked as executive producers on KILLING STRANGERS (Berlinale – Forum), LA ULTIMA PELICULA (TIFF), SOLECITO (Cannes, Director’s Fortnight) and STRANDED IN CAN-TON (Tribeca). Fischer had also produced an extensive film, art and web project LITTLE SUN with Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson

which premiered at Tate Modern and Eliasson’s recent ICE WATCH film project during COP21.

FERNAND MELGAR Director / Producer (Switzerland)In the early 80s Fernand Melgar and his friends founded Le Caba-ret Orwell, as well as the internationally famous rock venue La Dolce Vita. After first screening experimental films Melgar turned into a self-taught independent film director and producer. He cre-ated experimental films and iconoclastic television segments in 1983. In 1985 he joined the production company Climage where he produced over 20 well-accepted documentaries. His docu-mentary EXIT – THE RIGHT TO DIE received several international awards including the Golden Link UER Award for the best European co-production and the Swiss Cinema Award. His documentary THE FORTRESS won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and many other international awards. His film SPECIAL FLIGHT received more than thirty international awards, including the Swiss Film Award and the Prix Europa. His latest film THE SHELTER was filmed in an shelter for homeless people in Lausanne.

ALEXANDER NANAU Producer / Director / Cinematographer (Germany / Romania) Alexander Nanau was born in Romania and studied directing at the renowned Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). His documentary film, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B received the International Emmy Award in 2010 and was screened at over 70 in-ternational film festivals receiving numerous other awards. His first feature documentary, PETER ZADEK INSZENIERT PEER GYNT (2006) premiered at the Munich International Film Festival and was released in cinemas across Germany and Austria in 2006. Nanau is a fellow of the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Sundance Institute. His latest feature documentary TOTO AND HIS SISTERS is a European Academy Award nominee and was successfully screened at numerous international festivals where it won several awards including the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documen-tary at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival. The film was released in French cinemas at the start of 2016 as TOTO ET SES SOEURS.

Jury of the Competition Programme - Short Film

FATIMA DJOUMER International Relations & Events of Europa Cinemas (France)Fatima Djoumer worked for the Berlin International Film Fes-tival before taking over public relations duty for the European Film Academy. In 1993 she became the Head of International Relations of Europa Cinemas, where she supports the world-wide distribution of European films. Europa Cinemas supports the distribution of European films outside their country of origin. It works with young audiences to develop their interest in European films.

DUŠAN KASALICA Director (Montenegro)Dušan Kasalica was born in Nikšić, Montenegro. He graduated the film directing from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro, where he now works in the Department of Film and Television directing. His short film A MATTER OF WILL won the Heart of Sarajevo award for the best short film of the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival and was screened in other prestigious festivals around the world. He is currently developing several projects, either as a director or producer, and is also finishing his new short film SOA.

JURE PAVLOVIĆDirector (Croatia)Jure Pavlović was born in Split and graduated directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. He participated in various international workshops, including Berlinale Talents, Sarajevo Talent Campus, Sources 2, etc. His short films were screened and awarded in numerous international film festivals, including the Berlin International Film Festival and Clermont Ferrand. His short film PICNIC won the European Film Academy Award (EFA) for the Best European short in 2015.

Fatima Djoumer Dušan Kasalica Jure Pavlović

Tine Fischer Fernand Melgar Alexander Nanau

2016TRIBUTE TOAMAT ESCALANTEIn the previous years we paid tribute to the following film authors: 2015 Brillante Mendoza, Atom Egoyan / 2014 Michael Winterbottom / 2013 Cristi Puiu / 2012 Todd Solondz / 2011 Lucrecia Martel / 2010 Bruno Dumont / 2009 Jia Zhang-ke / 2008 Todd Haynes / 2007 Ulrich Seidl / 2006 Abel Ferrara, Béla Tarr / 2005 Alexander Payne / 2004 Dušan Makavejev, Gaspar Noé / 2003 Peter Mullan / 2002 Stephen Frears / 2001 Mike Leigh / 2000 Steve Buscemi

Sarajevo Film Festival is honored to welcome Mexican director, writer and producer Amat Escalante to the Tribute To Programme who will be joining us in Sarajevo to present his films that earned him a place among the most renowned filmmakers of today.

AWARDS 2015

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film: MUSTANG, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, director

Heart of Sarajevo - Special Jury Prize: SON OF SAUL, Clara Royer, writer and László Nemes director and writer

Honorary Heart of Sarajevo: Benicio Del Toro, actor Honorary Heart of Sarajevo: Atom Egoyan, director

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor: Panos Kóronis, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, Makis Papadimitríou (CHEVALIER)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film: TOTO AND HIS SISTERS, Alexander Nanau, director Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress: Elit İşcan (MUSTANG)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film: A MATTER OF WILL, Dušan Kasalica, director

Benicio Del Toro on the Red Carpet

Previous Sarajevo Film Festival’s guests:Victoria Abril, Fatih Akin, Gillian Anderson, Fernando León de Aranoa, Darren Aronofsky, Armand Assante, Olivier Assayas, Agnes b., Bérénice Bejo, Pablo Berger, Gael García Bernal, Susanne Bier, Enki Bilal, Adrian Biniez, Juliette Binoche, Carol Bouquet, Ewen Bremner, Steve Buscemi, Juan José Campanella, Eric Cantona, Leos Carax, Katrin Cartlidge, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Anton Corbijn, Daniel Craig, Alfonso Cuarón, Willem Dafoe, Claire Denis, Gérard Depardieu, Bruno Dumont, Atom Egoyan, Michael Fassbender, Abel Ferrara, Ari Folman, Kerry Fox, Michel Franco, Stephen Frears, Morgan Freeman, Jean-Michel Frodon, Cary Fukunaga, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Terry George, Danny Glover, Javier Godino, David Gordon Green, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Todd Haynes, Michel Hazanavicius, Emile Hirsch, Hugh Hudson, Danny Huston, Jeremy Irons, Angelina Jolie, Gemma Jones, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Dagur Kári, Charlie Kaufman, Čedomir Kolar, Dieter Kosslick, Nadine Labaki, Alexandra Maria Lara, Mike Leigh, Sebastian Lelio, Claude Lelouch, Melissa Leo, Ken Loach, Gwei Lun-Mei, Branko Lustig, John Malkovich, Lesley Manville, Karl Markovics, Joshua Marston, Lucrecia Martel, Simon McBurney, Anthony Minghella, Brillante Mendoza, Lukas Moodysson, Michael Moore, Nanni Moretti, Marco Mueller, Peter Mullan, Kornél Mundruczó, Cristian Mungiu, Anna Muylaert, László Nemes, James Nesbitt, Călin Peter Netzer, Gaspar Noé, Nick Nolte, Michele Ohayon, Jafari Panahi, Álvaro Pastor, Pawel Pawlikovski, Alexander Payne, Brad Pitt, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Charlotte Rampling, Vanessa Redgrave, Carlos Reygadas, Sam Riley, Phil Alden Robinson, Mickey Rourke, Manfred Schmidt, Ulrich Seidl, Brad Silbering, Stellan Skarsgård, Todd Solondz, Kevin Spacey, Elia Suleiman, Danis Tanović, Bela Tarr, Emil Tedeschi, Juergen Teller, Benicio Del Toro, Cat Villiers, Bono Vox, Emily Watson, Wim Wenders, Michael Winterbottom, Diao Yinan, Jia Zhang-ke... Kevin Spacey with fans on the Red Carpet

HIGHLIGHTS 2015

Michael Fassbender at the Open Air Cinema

Charlotte Rampling at Coffee With Programme

Morgan Freeman on the Red Carpet

Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Jesuthasan Antonythasan, actors from the film DHEEPAN

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the Red Carpet

Wim Wenders at the Open Air Cinema

Producer Anca Puiu and director Cristi Puiu with their daughter

Opening lecture: Jean-Michel Frodon and Leos Carax @ STC 2013

Gillian Anderson with fans on the Red Carpet

TIGERS film team and guests on the Red Carpet: writer and producer Andy Paterson with wife Olivia Hetreed, director Danis Tanović with wife Maëlys de Rudder Tanović, actor Danny Huston with daughter Stella Huston, focus puller Edib Ahmetašević, producer Čedomir Kolar and cinematographer Erol Zubčević

Annie Leibovitz joins the Festival photographers for a selfie Juliette Binoche on the Red Carpet

Mirsad Purivatra, Festival Director and Gael García Bernal, recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, Open Air Cinema

Open Air Cinema

CineLink Opening Party

Towards the end of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, in 1995, Obala Art Centar initiated the Sarajevo Film Festival with the aim of helping to reconstruct civil society and retain the cosmopoli-tan spirit of the city. Today, two decades later, the Sarajevo Film Festival is the leading film festival in the region, recognized by both film profession-als and the wider audience. The Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with a special focus on the region of South-East Europe and Southern Caucasus (Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey), shin-ing an international spotlight on films, talent and future projects from the region.

Competition Programme - Feature and Short Film presents a diversity of cinematic creation in Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus. It brings powerful films with strong directors’ viewpoints, and it either discovers new talents, or confirms young but already established filmmakers with new and fresh ideas. The red carpet event is especially created to honour the creativity of regional artists on whom the Festival’s prestige depends.

Competition Programme - Documentary Film presents and promotes the best and most recent documentary production of Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus. In Focus is a showcase of exceptional regional films which have already made considerable success at prestigious film festivals worldwide.

Open Air offers art-house films with a wide audience appeal and an unforgettable experience of watching films under the stars on the biggest screen in the region. Its sidebar programme Coffee With hosts guests of the Open Air through series of live interviews attended by the audience and the media.

Tribute to... is dedicated to the authors whose uncompro-mising creative outlooks brought down many taboos in film and society alike, and attracted great attention of both the audiences and the media. Guest auteurs were: Brillante Mendoza and Atom Egoyan 2015 / Michael Winterbottom 2014 / Cristi Puiu 2013 / Todd Solondz 2012 / Lucrecia Martel 2011 / Bruno Dumont 2010 / Jia Zhang-ke 2009 / Todd Haynes 2008 / Ulrich Seidl 2007 / Abel Ferrara and Béla Tarr 2006 / Alexander Payne 2005 / Dušan Makavejev and Gaspar Noe 2004 / Peter Mullan 2003 / Stephen Frears 2002 / Mike Leigh 2001 / Steve Buscemi 2000.

Kinoscope is the programme that comprises both narrative and documentary films from around the globe, excluding the Southeastern European territories. The focus is on distinctive titles marked out for their mise-en-scene. The programme takes in great auteurs as well as first and second time filmmakers.

European Shorts presents some of the most talented emerging filmmakers, alongside Regional Shorts competing for the Best European Film Nomination Award. The editorial line of the programme presents filmmakers taking on various creative challenges while exploring the potential of the short film form.

Summer Screen consists of the best, mostly European feature and documentary films based on music topics and pop culture. The audience enjoys screenings in the atmosphere of a night picnic under the starry sky. Children’s programme and Teenarena aids the education of the Festival`s youngest audiences and instills love for films in our future generations. The programmes screen a variety of carefully selected European films dealing with topics relevant for children and teenagers.

Sarajevo Film Festival Partner PresentsThrough partnership with the Doha Film Institute the programme presents films by Arab filmmakers, showcasing the most notable titles from the past 12 months. Sarajevo Film Festival Guests PresentThis programme showcases films curated by the programmers of the world film festivals who had been given “carte blanche”. Operation Kino approaches target audiences, bringing new and diverse cinema experiences through tailor made activi-ties, related to the promotion and understanding of films, with significant results in the development of wider audiences and new generation of talents. At the same time, we are developing a new generation of local partners through specially created educational activities. The project reaches out to more than 40 cities across Bosnia and Herzegovina, bringing a part of the Sarajevo Film Festival programme and atmosphere to audiences throughout the whole year. Our aim is to attract and engage encouraged film lovers eager to expand their knowledge through different models and approaches. The Video on Demand platform is available for audiences coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a great selection of European and worldwide titles, master classes and interviews. For further information check www.operacijakino.ba or contact us at operationkino@sff.ba.

* This label does not prejudge the status of Kosovo and is in accordance with Reso-lution 1244 and the opinion of the ICJ on Kosovo’s declaration of independence

CineLink Industry daysAugust 15-20, 2016

Shaping the future of the film business in Southeast EuropeOver its 15 years in existence, Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section has become the major hub for Southeast European film professionals and played a crucial role in the expansion of regional cinematographic co-production. It has also become a key destination for professionals from across Europe who search for talent and co-production possibilities, or simply wish to get in-depth knowledge on the business developments of this dynamic region.

With its interlinked CineLink Industry Days sections:

CineLink Coproduction MarketCineLink Work in ProgressCineLink DramaDocu Rough Cut Boutique Talents Sarajevo Pack&PitchAvant Premiers Regional Forum

Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry offer attracts almost 1000 professionals to its late August event and includes activities for people from all spheres of the business.

Our vision is to serve the current and shape the future needs of the business. We see more films than ever being made outside of the existing value chain, former cinema and TV bor-ders blurred in terms of quality of content and so many more screens on which all of it can be seen. Everything is converging which is why we designed this years’ programme to reflect

this. In addition to our flagship selection of quality projects in development, screenings of fiction and doc works–in-progress and extracts from finished films going into distribution, a whole new CineLink Drama section brings exciting new quality drama projects from established filmmakers from the region.

At the same time young talents are pitching their short film projects, everything at one place, everything connected. CineLink Industry Days offer awards funds totalling more than 100.000 Euros in cash and services with awards from Eurimages, Arte, Macedonian Film Agency and the Post Republic among others.

It boosts an impressive track record with previous projects go-ing on to major international recognition: HONEY by Semih Kaplanoglu (Golden Bear, Berlin 2010), IF I WANT TO WHISTLE I WHISTLE by Florin Serban (Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear and Alfred Bauer Prize, Berlinale 2010), MOLD by Ali Aydın (Lion of the Future, Venice 2012) HARMONY LESSONS by Emir Baigazin (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2013), WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe (Lion of the Future, Venice 2013), and SON OF SAUL by Laszlo Nemes (Grand Prix at Cannes 2016 and Oscar for Best Foreign Film), just to name a few.

Contact: industry@sff.ba

INDUSTRY

FESTIVAL IN BRIEF

Talents Sarajevo

Talents Sarajevo 2016, taking place from the 14th to the 20th of August, welcomes up-and-coming actors, directors, scriptwriters, producers, film critics and cinematographers from Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus. Aspiring film professionals from Cyprus and Malta are encouraged to apply for the first time.Founded in collaboration with Berlin International Film Fes-tival and Berlinale Talents, over the past nine years, Talents Sarajevo has become the regional hub for meeting and train-ing of aspiring film professionals. The 10th jubilee edition of-fers a rich summit programme of master classes, moderated talks and interactive panel discussions, complemented by project labs PACK&PITCH, SCRIPT STATION, in which one can further develop a project, and studio programmes and work-shops for specific professions, e.g. ACTING STUDIO, CAMERA STUDIO, FILM STAGE STUDIO and TALENT PRESS.

In and Out of Light will be the underlying thematic focus for 2016. The 10th edition of Talents Sarajevo will shed a light on the interplay between the seen and the unseen in cinema. The tension between the visible and the invisible, between the embodied and the pure potential will be in the focus of attention of emerging film professionals from Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus gathered at Talents Sarajevo from August 14-20.

Former Talents Sarajevo experts include a number of this region’s and the world’s most prominent and renowned film professionals like: Darren Aronofsky, Aida Begić, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Leos Carax, Beni-cio Del Toro, Bruno Dumont, Michael Fassbender, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons, Angelina Jolie, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Charlie Kaufman, Hawk Koch, Mike Leigh, Leon Lučev, Branko Lustig, Anamaria Marinca, Michael Moore, László Nemes, Gaspar Noé, Alexander Payne, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Stellan Skarsgård, Todd Solondz, Kevin Spacey, Danis Tanović, Béla Tarr, Wim Wenders, Jasmila Žbanić, and many more.

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