“There are just so many things happening in a small geographical area, in a pretty town”
The man with many hats in the Norwegian film industry is usually totally immersed in everything Haugesund come August each year
“The Sarajevo Film Festival has built its own ecosystem of returning talents”
The head honcho of CineLink Industry Days sums up the focus of the event, discusses the challenges of the past and the present, and reveals the plans for the future
"I aimed to create an observational documentary, with the narrative driving force of fiction"
The Serbian director discusses his film, a dive into one of Europe's largest unsanitary landfills, set in a suburb of Belgrade, which snagged the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary
"A film is a living animal; it never comes out the way you imagine it on paper"
The Bosnian director talks about her first feature Excursion, which depicts the turmoil of adolescence through a young woman who doesn’t intend to play by society’s heteropatriarchal rules
"In the film, the viewer and society also serve as the main characters"
The Croatian filmmaker discusses his latest work, which approaches workers’ rights, corruption and governments’ disdain for ordinary people through the case of a 120-year-old train factory