The Sarajevo Film Festival, the biggest showcase of Southeast European cinema, is set to have its most reflective and regional edition this year. The festival will feature 49 films competing for Heart of Sarajevo awards across its four competition sections, including world, international, regional, and national premieres.
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For Marjanović, its more important than ever that Sarajevo remains a festival that beats the drum for its local producers who often don’t get recognition on the global film stage compared to their Western and Central European counterparts. “The region has been producing a lot of films in the last few years, but they haven’t been traveling outside of the region as much unfortunately,” he says, pointing to a lack of Southeastern European films featured in other major film festivals this year.
about a well-known accident during the Cold War when a group of young communist scientists get irradicated with a lethal dose of uranium. They are sent to Paris for medical treatment, where a professor is certain they were making a nuclear weapon but proposes the first-ever human bone marrow transplant.
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