Competition programme - Feature, Short and Documentary is open for film submissions of the authors coming from the countries of the region: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia and Turkey.
Other programmes (New Currents, New Currents Short, Children's Programme, Teenarena) are open for unsolicited international film submissions. For more information, please visit Sarajevo Film Festival's web site: www.sff.ba

Entires formats accepted are DVD, VHS
Screening formats accepted are 35mm, Beta SP Pal, DVD.
For more details, please contact the Festival.

Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with specific goal of supporting and promoting regional cinematography and authors. To this end Sarajevo Film Festival also founded a regional co-production market CineLink. Due to this regional focus, the festival is recognized by FIAPF as a Competitive Specialized Festival.

Sarajevo Film Festival was established during the war, in 1995. Nobody could have thought that the war dream of a group of enthusiasts would grow into the most important event - not only in BiH, but in the whole region.

From 15,000 viewers at the very beginning, audience of the Sarajevo Film Festival grew into more than 100,000 viewers, from 37 films shown in the first editions, we have now grown to 180 films that are being screened during 9 days of the festival. More than 35,000 children from all over BiH are enjoying the screenings of Children's' Programme. For this, every year the Skenderija Center's Sport Hall is especially re-arranged and turned into a cinema with more than 3,000 seats and with probably the biggest screen in Southeast Europe.
Sarajevo Film Festival hosted many famous guests; some of the most celebrated among them being Agnes B., Alfonso Cuaron, Anthony Minghella, Mike Leigh, Bono Vox, Carol Bouquet, Enki Bilal, Gerard Depardieu, Jafari Panahi, John Malkovich, Peter Mullan, Vanessa Redgrave, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Payne, Claude Lelouch, Terry George, Emily Watson, Sophie Okonedo, Michael Radford, Brad Silberling, Daniel Craig, Niels Mueller, Carlos Reygadas, Michael Winterbottom...

The redefined concept of the Competition Program puts SFF into the focus and makes it the most important point for the promotion of regional films. In the past years, the Festival has also acted as a catalyst and a platform for the promotion of important initiatives, such as the formation of national film funds in the region, giving incentives for the participation of TV companies in the region in the film production, as well as ever greater involvement of regional film in the regular program schedules of those TV companies.

The establishment of CineLink, a co-production Market, launched jointly by Sarajevo Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and Hubert Bals Fund is one such initiative. CineLink, created in the desire to establish a network of cooperation among screenplay writers and directors in the region with the film professionals, producers and potential investors from around the world, is an attempt to improve - despite difficult situation - both the quality and vitality film production and co-production in the region.

In an additional effort to give inputs to the development of the young film talents, in the framework of the Festival, every year an annual scholarship is granted by the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation. This Foundation, established in the memory of Katrin Cartlidge, an exceptional British actress, supports independence, uniqueness and spiritual integrity - the values that Katrin cultivated throughout her life - providing support for the future work of young artists.

Sarajevo Film Festival - with its focus on the latest regional film production, both long and short feature films, as well as documentaries, with its tributes to renowned regional filmmakers, and with its CineLink Co-production Market - represents the most important meeting point for all the filmmakers of the region, and the focal point for networking and learning about the possibilities that this region can offer.