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The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier film festival in the Balkans. It was founded in 1995 and brings international and local celebrities to Sarajevo every year. It is held in August and shows feature and short films. The current director is Mirsad Purivatra. 2004 will be the ten-year anniversary of the film festival. The winner of the Sarajevo Film Festival receives a €15,000 grand prize, and the recipient of the Best Short Film award gets €2000 winnings.

1 History

The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from October 25 to November 5 1995. At that time, the siege of Sarajevo was still going on, and projections were very low. However, a surprising 15,000 people came to see the films, of which there were 37 from 15 different countries. The Festival grew at a remarkable pace, attracting tens of thousands of people a year, as well as foreign celebreties such as U2's Bono, and Willem Dafoe. By 2001, the European Film Association made the Sarajevo Film Festival one of the 11 Festivals that could nominate a film for the award of "Europe's Best Short Film". In 2002, the Festival's choice of local Ahmed Imamovic's "10 Minuta" went on to win it all. The 2001's winner of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Danis Tanovic's " No Man's Land" went on to win an Oscar in the USThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in. In 2004 for the first time the Best Movie Award is named "The Heart of Sarajevo".

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