Mirsad Purivatra has stepped down as Sarajevo Film Festival director after a 27-year run, and has been replaced by Jovan Marjanović, who was previously in charge of the festival’s industry de…
director after a 27-year run, and has been replaced by Jovan Marjanović, who was previously in charge of the festival’s industry department and the festival co-director.
“I am proud of everything we have accomplished over the last 27 years. We started from nothing, when our city was under siege, and today we are a globally renowned institution attended by filmmakers and film industry professionals from the region and the whole world,” Purivatra said. Guests at the festival have included Angelina Jolie, Bono, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Paweł Pawlikowski, Mike Leigh, Darren Aronofsky, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Gaspar Noé, John Cleese, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert and Wim Wenders.
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