News Summary

• The Sarajevo Film Festival kicks off on Friday (August 14) with Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland.
• The Polish helmer is set to personally welcome audiences at the gala screening.
• The festival is welcoming a raft of top talent including Emily Watson, Woody Harrelson, Diego Luna and Asghar Farhadi, all of whom will participate in masterclasses at the festival.
• A total of 51 films will screen across the four competition sections – narrative feature film, feature and short documentary film, narrative short film and student short film.