Sarajevo – Documentary Competition 2016
You could – if you have the time – travel from the Dokufest Prizren in Kosova to Sarajevo for the yearly festival that has the main focus on feature films but also includes films from the region. The festival runs from August 12-20, Dokufest ends on the 13th.
The intro text for the documentary section, however, is not very inviting: The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues as diverse as personal identity, national identity, emigration, social justice, family secrets, political mysteries, economical crises… Right, it gives you a smell of political correctness but if you looke at the titles your curiosity grows with world premieres of 3 Bosnian and 1 Slovenian and premieres with long awaited Bulgarian ”The Beast is Still Alive” by great Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (known for their controversial success “Uncle Tony, Three Fools and the Secret Service”) and four more films that we have written about on filmkommentaren: Salome Jashi’s ”The Dazzling Light of Sunset” (photo) that demonstrates the huge talent of the Georgian director (”Bahkmaro”), Greek Apostolos Karakasis ”Next Stop Utopia”, Serbian Ognjen Glavonic ”Depth Two” and Klára Trecsényi’s ”Train to Adulthood”, all highly appreciated works.
