The 27th annual edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, and a new award is being introduced to promote gender equality at the fest. The Special Award for Promoting Gender Equality is “open to all directorial debuts directed by women playing at the festival, across all sections” and will see the winning director receive €7,500 (about $8,800), per Screen Daily.
Thirteen features are eligible for the honor this year, including Prano Bailey-Bond’s “Censor,” a psychological horror story about a film censor who becomes convinced that a video nasty is connected to her sister’s disappearance, and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s “Murina,” a portrait of a teenage girl who finds herself drawn to her controlling father’s business associate.
Seven of the 13 titles are screening in the feature competition program.
The fest is also launching the What Women Want: Quotas and Reality panel this year.
Check out all of the films in the running for the Special Award for Promoting Gender Equality at the Sarajevo Film Festival below. The fest runs from August 13-20.
1. THINGS WORTH WEEPING FOR / A LEGJOBB DOLGOKON BŐGNI KELL, Cristina Grosan (Hungary, 2021, 84 min) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
2. BEBIA, À MON SEUL DÉSIR, Juja Dobrachkous (Georgia, United Kingdom, 2020, 113 min.) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
3. CELTS / KELTI, Milica Tomović (Serbia, 2021, 106 min.) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
4. LOOKING FOR VENERA / NË KËRKIM TË VENERËS, Norika Sefa (Kosovo, 2020, 111 min.) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
5. MOON, 66 QUESTIONS / SELENE 66 QUESTIONS, Jacqueline Lentzou (Greece, France, 2021, 108 min.) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
6. MURINA, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Croatia, Brazil, United States, Slovenia, 2021, 92 min.) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
7. THE HILL WHERE LIONESSES ROAR / LA COLLINE OÙ RUGISSENT LES LIONESS, Luàna Bajrami (Kosovo, France, 2021, 83 min.) / Competition Programme – Feature Film
8. RECONCILIATION / ODPUŠČANJE, Marija Zidar (Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, 2021, 82 min.) / Competition Programme – Documentary Film
9. HIVE / ZGJOI, Blerta Basholli (Kosovo, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Albania, 2021, 84 min.) / In Focus
10. EL PLANETE, Amalia Ulman (United States, Spain, 2021, 82 min.) / Kinoscope
11. PLAYGROUND, Laura Wandel (Belgium, 2021, 72 min.) / Kinoscope
12. SUPERIOR, Erin Vassilopoulos (United States, 2021, 99 min.) / Kinoscope
13. CENSOR, Prano Bailey-Bond (United Kingdom, 2021, 84 min.) / Kinoscope
