Wollner’s 'Everytime' Wins Top Prize at Sarajevo Film Festival
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- Sandra Wollner's 'Everytime' won the Heart of Sarajevo for best narrative feature, with the jury calling it a 'mesmerically elastic and transcendental grief-soaked ghost story'.
- Ana Urushadze received the Heart of Sarajevo for best director for 'Supporting Role,' a film the jury said blended 'the banal and the oneiric' with 'refreshing curiosity for meaning in life and cinema'.
- Eva Kostić won best actress for her performance in '17,' praised as 'raw, visceral and deeply instinctive' by the jury, marking 'the fearless emergence of a young talent'.
- Adrian Văncică took best actor for 'You Don’t Belong Here,' with the jury highlighting his 'tenacity and understated rigor' in a film centered on a doctor confronting his son’s alleged crime.
- Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić won best documentary feature for 'To Hold a Mountain,' described by the jury as 'an unforgettable journey' with 'astonishingly epic cinematography' capturing sisterhood in Montenegro.
Why it matters: The Sarajevo Film Festival elevated emerging and mid-career filmmakers from Central and Southeast Europe, signaling strong institutional support for intimate, formally adventurous storytelling in a region often underrepresented on the global stage. These wins may increase distribution opportunities for the films, particularly for Kosara Mitić’s debut '17,' which also received a gender equality award.
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