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	Sarajevo Film Festival closes - Movies
		Sarajevo - The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) was officially closed Saturday evening in the Bosnian capital, after the ceremony to declare the winners of the biggest film festival in South-Eastern Europe.
		The special honour of the SFF was given to British actor-director Mike Leigh, who has been supporting the festival in Sarajevo since its establishment 12 years ago - amid the 1992-95 war in Bosnia- Herzegovina as cultural resistance to killings and massive destruction in the country.
		Before the 12th SFF was officially closed, Bosnia's filmmakers announced in Sarajevo that they decided to nominate Bosnian film Grbavica by young Sarajevo director Jasmila Zbanic as the country's entrant for the foreign-language Oscar in the top US movie prizes, the Academy Awards.
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_1194959.php/Sarajevo_Film_Festival_closes (269 words)

	Pride, no prejudice \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		The Sarajevo film festival was founded during the city's darkest hour but now, in its 11th year, is celebrating a new-found harmony and confidence.
		The festival was born at a difficult time, during the siege of Sarajevo.
		Ironically, the centre of the festival is the army headquarters where representatives from all the regions of ex-Yugoslavia gathered.
	film.guardian.co.uk /festivals/news/0,11667,1563887,00.html (768 words)

	Sarajevo Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier film festival in the Balkans.
		The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from October 25 to November 5, 1995.
		The festival grew at a remarkable pace, attracting tens of thousands of people a year, as well as foreign celebrities such as U2's Bono, and Willem Dafoe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarajevo_Film_Festival (378 words)

	Sarajevo Official Web Site : Culture
		The success and progress of the Sarajevo National Theater is best illustrated by a huge number of festivals and visits in the country and abroad in which the artists and ensembles took part and won numerous awards and recognitions for the quality of their performances.
		Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) was established in 1995 as a project of Obala Art Center and represents one of the most important film events in Balkans region.
		The SFF is also the best opportunity for young directors from Central and Eastern Europe and the region of former Yugoslavia to show their achievements and make contacts with representatives of great world festivals, movie critics and producers.
	www.sarajevo.ba /en/stream.php?kat=138 (530 words)

	Where Life is a Film: The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival
		It is a given that a novice reviewer of the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) would saturate their audience with the facts that have more to do with Sarajevo’s recent history than with the growing importance of its biggest annual festival to the revival and integration of the regional film industry.
		Turning film into a bit-part actor of the SFF is necessary when the festival’s mise en scène is the city that emerged out of the longest siege in the modern history only 11 years ago.
		Yet, knowing that seven out of the nine authors, whose films were shown in the features competition program this year, were debutants clearly defines the SFF as the context in which the emerging regional talent announces their intention to tell their stories in a new and refreshing ways.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/07/42/sarajevo-ff-2006.html (1402 words)

	Kinoeye \| The 7th Sarajevo Film Festival inspires Bosnia
		A battery of workshops targeted at young Bosnian film directors and producers that dealt with practical issues of film-project development was also organized, along with a two-day seminar for students with the goal of increasing local capacity in the art of film criticism.
		Several times during the festival, walking tours of Sarajevo were organized, along with a tour of the city's former frontlines, led by General Jovan Divjak, the retired leader of the Territorial Defense of the former Yugoslavia and the Deputy High Commander of the Bosnian army during the war.
		Just as the first Sarajevo Film Festival in 1995 was conceived to offer hope to all those trapped in the besieged city, the latest continues as a beacon of light to the people of all of Bosnia, brighter than any of the stars in Hollywood.
	www.kinoeye.org /01/02/pozun02.php (2139 words)

	EUFOR Forum Online: Sarajevo Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sarajevo, as the heart of this region, provides the perfect crossroads for a platform dedicated to the promotion and development of these countries’ cinematographies.
		Austria with its Vienna Film Fund has been the partner country to the last year’s edition of CineLink which gathered over 100 film professionals from all over Europe, while this year Germany with its representatives of largest funds and a host of producers is posed to act as the partner for 2005.
		Unsurprisingly, last year Sarajevo Film Festival was also the place where regional Ministers of Culture met and together with their Ambassadors to Bosnia and Herzegovina discussed the future of the regional cinema.
	www.euforbih.org /forum/008/p18a/tefp18a.htm (352 words)

	The Need For Film - Sixth Sarajevo Film Festival Afterimage - Find Articles
		This 16-minute film is a poignant story, made without too many words, about the times before the war, during the war and the time that has come just after the war, the time that might be difficult to define as the time of peace.
		Her film is a story about Jasna R, who is searching for her two children--4-year-old Amar and 9-year-old Ajla, wh o were taken from her, killed by the Serbian Army and buried in a mass grave.
		Both films are shocking because of the layers not directly shown in the film but hidden deep within, not just because of the war past but rather because of the burden of our postwar present.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2479/is_4_28/ai_76560772 (1005 words)

	Movie Lords \| News \| Sarajevo Film Festival Now Thriving (AP)
		About 1,000 film industry guests are led by director, writer and producer Alexander Payne, two time winner of the Golden Globe Awards and this year's Academy Award winner for his film "Sideways." Payne will preside over the jury for the short film award.
		The festival started when this Balkan capital was besieged by Bosnian Serb forces positioned on the mountains surrounding the city during the war.
		With people cut off and under attack, the festival was created to remind the world that Sarajevo was starved for culture as well as food.
	www.movielords.com /21654-sarajevo-film-festival-now-thriving.html (567 words)

	OJF A view of Sarajevo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		You would see the Bosnians enjoying a movie at the outdoor theater during the annual film festival, "Sarajevo Nights" where they would dress in their "Sunday best" to go out for an evening of entertainment.
		Sarajevo is a beautiful city, but after the war it was still littered with land mines that claimed the life of an innocent civilian almost every week.
		In each place a person died from mortar rounds hitting the streets you will find a "Sarajevo Rose." The "Rose" is made by filling the crater in the sidewalk with red resin creating what would appear to be a flower with several petals scattered around it.
	www.spectracomwebs.com /bosnia/sarajevo.htm (217 words)

	17th Annual SFJFF - Director Haris Pasovic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Before the war he was a prominent theater director in the former Yugoslavia and a professor of film and theater directing at the Performing Arts Academy in Sarajevo.
		During 1996 and 1997 Greta Ferusic was filmed in Sarajevo, Auschwitz, Paris and Jerusalem.
		When the siege of Sarajevo began in April 1992, Greta and her husband decided to stay in Sarajevo and share the fate of the city.
	www.sfjff.org /sfjff17/filmmakers/d0721b-a.html (691 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		In October 1993, with Serbs shelling the city, the festival, then directed by Haris Pasovic, screened some 170 films on VHS at locations around the war-torn city, with Sarajevans literally risking life and limb as they dodged sniper bullets and mortars to get to the showings.
		And they suggested to us, let’s create a Sarajevo film festival, and we started with this idea, and we knew that we can achieve some good results, a good festival, done professionally, by taking good films and by taking as collaborators international experts.
		Sarajevo is now a central place for producers, distributors, cinema owners TV stations are also coming along.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=27025 (1414 words)

	Sarajevo Film Festival Now Draws 100,000
		The Sarajevo Film Festival, which began in a basement during the Bosnian war in 1995, will open its doors Friday night as an established cinema event drawing internationally known artists and an expected 100,000 filmgoers.
		The festival began when this Balkan capital was besieged by Bosnian Serb forces positioned in the mountains surrounding the city during the war.
		The jury for the feature film prize will be presided over by this year's winner of the Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear Award and director of the film "Grbavica," Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/08/18/entertainment/e064501D80.DTL&type=printable (438 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Sarajevo Film Festival celebrates 10 decades - Thursday \| August 19, 2004
		But the Sarajevo Film Festival, which opens tomorrow, has evolved over the last decade from a gathering of film fans defiantly watching Western productions under the threat of artillery to a major regional event creating new stars.
		The festival was launched in November 1995, with the help of the directors of the Locarno and Edinburgh film festivals who arrived in besieged Sarajevo through an underground tunnel to bring the first film tapes in three years to culture-hungry Sarajevans.
		The festival was held at the same time as peace talks were under way in Dayton, Ohio to end the 1992-5 war.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040819/ent/ent2.html (424 words)

	Sarajevo film a gritty wallow in the horrors of war
		Sarajevo film a gritty wallow in the horrors of war
		Dillane says when he returned to Sarajevo this past week for the festival, he found the place coming back to life, with the cafes reopening and the buildings being restored.
		Welcome to Sarajevo is an Alliance release of a Miramax Film, and is being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, fresh from an appearance at a festival in Sarajevo itself:
	www.canoe.ca /filmfestor/sep13_sarajevo.html (670 words)

	The Pulpmovies Link Machine » Sarajevo Film Festival
		The story of the Festival began in 1995 during the war in BH when conditions were impossible.
		Although the first festival was more a resistance and freedom fighting movement, organization of that festival was immaculate and served as a base for festivals that followed.
		It is not unusual at Sarajevo Film Festival to see celebrities such as Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich, Mike Leigh, Steve Buscemi, Peter Mullan or Bono Vox.
	www.pulpmovies.com /links/sarajevo-film-festival (200 words)

	Sarajevo travel guide - Wikitravel
		Sarajevo [1], the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a lively city of 400,000 people, nestled in a valley, mainly within the Bosniak(Muslim)-Croat Federation, but with parts in the Republika Srpska.
		Sarajevo Airport is connected with major European cities by a number of airlines.
		Though it is not situated within Sarajevo city limits but in a somehow remote place, some 150 kms from Sarajevo, visiting Srebrenica which has witnessed one of the world's deadliest massacres in July 1995 is quite important for those who are interested in recent history.
	wikitravel.org /en/Sarajevo (2333 words)

	Sundance to Sarajevo
		The favourite question of journalists during my festival was "Why a film festival during the war?" My answer was "Why the war during a film festival?" It was the siege that was unusual, not the festival.
		In part two's chapters on FESPACO and the Havana film festival, Turan interviews politicians as well as filmmakers, demonstrating the importance of these events to the countries' leaders and of cinema to a sense of national identity.
		A convention rather than a festival in the strictest sense, ShoWest is the annual meeting of studios and exhibitors, where studios send their brightest stars to convince exhibitors to buy their films, and confectionary manufacturers showcase the latest in concession stand technology.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev_16/FHbr16a.html (1658 words)

	Film festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The world's first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932; the other major film festivals of the world (Berlin, Cannes, Moscow and Karlovy Vary) date back to the 1940s and 1950s.
		The Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland was established in 1947 and is the longest continually running film festival in the world.
		Women of color: Women of Color Film Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz was founded in 1992 and is the first film festival in the U.S. committed to the representation of women of color, by women of color.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_festival (833 words)

	SFOR Informer Online: The Best Moments of Their Lives
		Preparations for the festival began in February, with the budget for purchasing movies, renting the movie hall and bringing children to Sarajevo being negotiated.
		The crew of TV SFOR was on hand to film the children as they made their way into the movie hall and them meeting the penguins.
		Also included were a festival T-shirt, a CD case and a copy of the MIRKO Film Festival issue, specially published by Cpt.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/165/p08a/t02p08a.htm (1032 words)

	Vukovar - Final Cut
		His debut short film On account of reasonable doubt was screened in 1986 at the Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film festival’s official selection.
		He is one of the founders of B92 film and TV production, for which he produced a series of documentaries, successfully shown and awarded in the country and abroad.
		SFF Documentary selection will present the films that are mostly dealing with the subject of the quest for the truth.
	www.b92.net /specijal/vukovar-eng/sarajevo.php (452 words)

	indieWIRE: Movie Stars in a Former War Zone: Sarajevo Film Festival Thrives For Locals and Industry Attendees
		The festival was started during the Bosnian war 11 years ago as a mark of artistic defiance and a way to let the troubled community find solace through film.
		The festival's infrastructure was impressive -- guests were treated well, transportation went smoothly, and festival venues were in easy walking distance to one another (near the tourist-friendly old town.) Screenings started on time and projection at most of the venues was excellent.
		It's a reminder that a film festival can be a way not just to make deals and meet industry players, but connect disparate parts of the world through film.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_050901sara.html (962 words)

	11th Sarajevo Film Festival: A Regional Accent With an International Profile (SETimes.com)
		Given its first public screening at the Sarajevo festival, it received a tumultuous standing ovation from an audience of around 2,500 gathered at the central open-air cinema.
		Matthew Vaughn (left, with Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra) was one of the many international luminaries attending the event.
		Moving forward into its second decade, the SFF is now firmly established as the main meeting place for all regional professionals and for those wanting to learn about the possibilities this region has to offer.
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2005/09/12/reportage-01 (1086 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina Festivals
		Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with specific goal of supporting and promoting regional cinematography and authors.
		Due to this regional focus, the festival is recognized by FIAPF as a Competitive Specialized Festival.
		Sarajevo Winter Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2004, is a prestigious gathering of artists from all over the world.
	www.world66.com /europe/bosniaandherzegovina/festivals (135 words)

	Spirits High at Sarajevo Film Festival - A group about Bono - Care2.com
		August 24, 2006 6:39 PM The Sarajevo Film Festival in the Bosnian capital attracts big stars as well as aspiring art house film directors and has come a long way since its humble beginnings in a basement in a besieged city.
		There are some in Sarajevo who say the festival is an annoyance and a chance for a small group of elitist organisers to be self important, wandering around town with their official accreditation ostentatiously dangling around their necks.
		But despite the stars and the plush, heavily sponsored venues, others say the festival is just as important to Sarajevo as it was back in the days of the siege.
	www.care2.com /c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=1127&pst=702979&archival=1 (558 words)

	Sarajevo Film Festival - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Sarajevo's Film Festival is famous for being instigated, towards the end of the bloody siege in 1994, as a wonderful, cultural act of defiance.
		And given that Sarajevo's population is about the same as Coventry's (300,000 or so), the six-figure attendance for the nine-day-long festivities of the once-besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina – the biggest such festival in south-east Europe – seems all the more extraordinary.
		The SFF has its long-term friends: Mike Leigh was specially honoured this year and Bono turned up to chaperone the locally admired but disconcertingly incomprehensible Nick Nolte for an open-air screening of the aptly titled but in fact pretty inappropriate gymnastics hooey 'Peaceful Warrior'.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/1386.html (564 words)

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