Ukrainian director-writer Sergei Loznitsa will be president of the main jury of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, it was revealed Friday.
He’ll be joined by Serbian actor Dragan Mićanović, Romanian director, writer and actor Emanuel Pârvu, Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker and screenwriter Ena Sendijarević, and Berlinale festival director Tricia Tuttle.
The jury will select the winners of the Heart of Sarajevo awards in the feature film competition program. The winners will be revealed on Aug. 22 at the awards ceremony.
Loznitsa has directed 28 documentaries and five fiction films. His feature debut “My Joy” (2010) premiered in main competition in Cannes. He won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes for “In the Fog” in 2012, and the best director prize of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section for “Donbass” in 2018.
Mićanović’s film and television credits include the local hit “Barking at the Stars” (1998), and the international productions “Rocknrolla” (2008) and “Coriolanus” (2011).
Recent highlights include his role as Zoran Đinđić in “Operation Sabre” (2024), which won best ensemble at Canneseries, and as Tomo Buzov in “A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” (2024), winner of the Palme d’Or for best short and an Oscar nominee.
Pârvu’s “Three Kilometers to the End of the World” premiered at Cannes 2024 in competition, received the Queer Palm, and was Romania’s Oscar entry. The film won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for best feature film at the Sarajevo Film Festival last year, as well as the best director award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. He has acted in more than 30 films, working with key Romanian New Wave directors.
Sendijarević’s debut feature “Take Me Somewhere Nice” (2019) was selected for the ACID program at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Special Jury Award at IFFR and the Heart of Sarajevo Award for best feature film at Sarajevo.
Her second feature “Sweet Dreams” (2023) premiered in competition at Locarno, where it won the Pardo for best performance. The film was the Dutch submission for the 2024 Academy Awards.
In the same year, she was named one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch.
Originally from the U.S., Tuttle has held senior roles at the British Film Institute, BAFTA, and the U.K.’s National Film and Television School.
She was at the BFI for a decade, where she became festivals director, managing the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.
She then led the directing fiction program at NFTS.
Since April 2024, Tuttle has been responsible for the creative direction and management of the Berlin Film Festival.
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from Aug. 15 to 22.
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