(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 16 AUG - The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF)
will kick off in the Bosnian capital today, with thousands of
film professionals, guests and visitors ready to attend the
events in program. The international festival, under the
patronage of UNESCO, will mark this year its 25th edition. The
SFF has a special focus on the region of South-East Europe and
the Balkans in particular.
Launched towards the end of the four-year siege of the city,
also as an act of civil and cultural resilience, the festival
became through the years one of the most important cultural
events in the region and the leading film festival in the
Balkans.
The jubilee edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival will start
with the world premiere of 'The Son", a film of the Bosnian
director Ines Tanovic. Until August 23, a total of 270 films in
18 categories and representing 56 countries will be shown during
the festival, with 68 films having their world premiere in the
Bosnian capital while 53 works will compete for the Heart of
Sarajevo award, the regional television N1 reported.
This year, the red carpet of the Sarajevo Film Festival will
be an unusual one, with "its pattern inspired by a traditional
Sarajevo carpet dating back to 1930, held in the National Museum
of Bosnia-Herzegovina," and idea to represent "a symbiosis of
modern and traditional design," the Sarajevo Film Festival
management said. On August 18, the French actress Isabelle
Huppert will be awarded with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo
Award. (ANSA).
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