Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa is set to preside over this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival jury while Berlinale head Tricia Tuttle, actor Dragan Mićanović, writer-actor-director Emanuel Pârvu and writer-director Ena Sendijarević are all set as jury members.
Loznitsa has directed 28 documentaries and five feature films, including his Cannes competition debut title My Joy and Donbass, the latter of which earned him the Best Director Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard strand. In addition to presiding over the jury, Loznitsa will present a retrospective of his work at Sarajevo.
Tuttle is currently director of the Berlin International Film Festival, which she has headed up since 2024. Prior to that, she was festival director of the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. She also led the Directing Fiction program at NFTS.
Serbian actor Mićanović has credits that include Barking at the Stars, Coriolanus and Rocknrolla. He’s been a prominent member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre since 1993 and was recently seen in 2024’s Operation Sabre, which won Best Ensemble at Canneseries.
Filmmaker and actor Pârvu is co-founding professor of Romania’s first Film Acting graduate program at Ovidius University. His film Three Kilometers to the End of the World premiered at Cannes in 2024 in Competition, received the Queer Palm, and was Romania’s Oscar entry that year. The film won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Feature Film at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2024.
Bosnian-Dutch writer-director Sendijarević has credits that include Take Me Somewhere Nice and Sweet Dreams. The former, which was her debut film, was selected for the ACID program at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Feature Film at Sarajevo. Sweet Dreams premiered in competition at Locarno, where it won the Pardo for Best Performance, and was the Dutch submission for the 2024 Oscars.
Loznitsa joins a list of film auteurs who have previously headed up the Sarajevo Film Festival jury: Mike Leigh (2004), Miki Manojlović (2005), Jasmila Žbanić (2006), Jeremy Irons (2007), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008), Mirjana Karanović (2009), Cristi Puiu (2010), Ari Folman (2011), Kornél Mundruczó (2012), Danis Tanović (2013), Béla Tarr (2014), Călin Peter Netzer (2015), Elia Suleiman (2016), Michel Franco (2017), Asghar Farhadi (2018), Ruben Östlund (2019), Michel Hazanavicius (2020), Jasna Đuričić (2021), Sebastian Meise (2022), Mia Wasikowska (2023), and Paul Schrader (2024).
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival takes place August 15-22, 2025.
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