Seven projects have been selected for the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Filmmakers Support Program. The initiative, launched in 2024 by the UNIQA See Future Foundation, in collaboration with the Sarajevo Film Festival and Slano Film Days, aims to empower female filmmakers from six Southeast European countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, and Bulgaria. All six territories are where the UNIQA Insurance Group operates.
All six projects chosen were announced at the Slano Film Days in Croatia on Saturday. One of these projects includes Marta Popivoda’s Body in Plural, a drama following two dancers, one from Serbia, the other from the U.S. Other projects include documentaries like Citizens of Beauty, from Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlić, and Anatomy of Indifference, a legal documentary from Romanian director Ilinca Calugareanu.
Una Gunjak’s How Melissa Blew a Fuse was another project selected. It follows a woman who, after stealing 200,000 Euros from her workplace in Germany, purchases a car and goes on the road towards her hometown in Bosnia. Other projects include Katarina Bulajić’s Leech, from Montenegro, and Jelena Maksimović’s Until the Day Ends, which follows two Serbian teenagers who go on the run while protesting the political oppression surrounding them. The last project selected is The Swamp, a horror anthology from Croatian filmmaker Daria Blažević, featuring five stories set in the Neretva River Valley.
All these films will receive proper financial and professional support throughout their pre- and post-production.
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