Austria's 'Everytime' Wins Best Film at Sarajevo
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- Sandra Wollner won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Narrative Feature Film with "Everytime" (Austria/Germany), earning a €16,000 prize after a unanimous jury decision that praised the film as a "mesmerically elastic and transcendental grief-soaked ghost story."
- Emily Watson, serving as SFF President, led a five-member jury alongside Igor Bezinović, Sara Klimoska, European Film Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol, and Athina Rachel Tsangari at the National Theatre Sarajevo ceremony.
- Ana Urushadze took Best Director for "Supporting Role" (Georgia/Estonia/Türkiye), while 17-year-old Eva Kostić won Best Actress for the same North Macedonia/Serbia/Slovenia co-production "17."
- Adrian Văncică claimed Best Actor for Romania's "You Don't Belong Here," and Emir Hadžihafizbegović received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award.
- The Special Jury Award went to Ukrainian-British co-production "The Ferry Flows" by Zhora Papoian, while Best Documentary went to "To Hold a Mountain" (Serbia/France/Montenegro/Slovenia/Croatia).
- Lana Daher (Lebanon) received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award 2026, and the Special Award for Promoting Gender Equality went to "17."
Why it matters: The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival awards underscore the festival's role as a platform for Balkan and Eastern European co-productions, with winners spanning at least 12 countries including a Ukraine-UK Special Jury Award. Sandra Wollner's "Everytime" takes a €16,000 top prize, a modest sum that reflects the festival's regional focus rather than the mega-deal economics of Cannes or Venice.
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