Alejandro Inarritu, bibigyangpugay sa Sarajevo Film Festival

ILAN sa mga nangungunang film maker sa mundo, kabilang ang two-time Oscar-winning director na si Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, ang magpapalabas ng kanilang mga kathang pelikula sa selebrasyon ng 25th Sarajevo Film Festival sa Agosto.

Taong 1995 nang itatag ang Saravejo festival bilang “act of defiance against the 43-month siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces.” Ito ang pinakamalaking film competition at industry platform, mula Vienna hanggang Istanbul.

“Since we have launched the festival, our key goal was to become a strong platform at which we would discover, support and promote talents from the region, providing them with the best networking possible,” pahayag ni Mirsad Purivatra, festival director, sa Reuters.

Mula Agosto 16-23, 53 pelikula mula sa apat na magkakaibang seksyon ang susuriin sa festival. Ang jury ay pangungunahan ng Swedish director at screenwriter na si Ruben Ostlund, direktor ng pelikulang The Square na nanalo ng Palme d’Or sae Cannes Film Festival noong 2017.

Para sa kategorya ng student film competition, kasama sa uupong hurado ang Israeli

director na si Nadav Lapid, na direktor naman ng pelikulang Synonyms na nagawagi sa 2019 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear. Magkakaroon din ng master class ang mga batang film authors sa pangunguna ni Lapid.

“We are a small festival with a small number of carefully chosen guests,” ayon kay Izeta Gradjevic, creative director ng pagdiriwang. “The celebrities are invited here to share their stories with young talents, turning the festival into a large laboratory.”

Gagawaran naman ng Heart of Sarajevo award ang dalawang kilalang direktor na sina Inarritu at ang Polish director na si Pawel Pawlikowski para sa kanilang natatanging ambag sa sinig ng pelikula.

“We have always wanted the Saravejo filn festival to be a human-sized festival, allhospitality festival where nobody is unreachable, and where famous authors can talk to the audience,” ani Puritvatra.

Imbitado rin ang ilang internationally awarded film makers, tulad ng Romanian director at screenwriter na si Cristi Puiu, Hungarian director na si Bela Tarr at Palestinian film director na si Elia Suleiman sa event.