Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival was founded in 1995, during the siege of the city, and has become the leading film festival of South-East Europe. Its top prize is the Heart of Sarajevo.

Winners of the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), year by year. Names link to the film or person page when they are on Sinekatalog. Compiled from Wikidata.

Best Film Special Jury and Jury Prizes

Best Film

31 years listed (1996–2026); some years may be missing from the source data.

Year	Film	Director / winner
2026	Everytime	Sandra Wollner
	Supporting Role	Ana Urushadze
	Nobody Said Anything	Tamara Todorović
	To Hold a Mountain	Biljana Tutorov Petar Glomazić
	Holy Defiance	Karla Jelić
2025	Wind, Talk to Me	Stefan Đorđević
	Cloistered Sister	Ivana Mladenović
	Fantasy	Sarah Al Saleh Alina Juhart Mina Milovanović
	Yugo Florida	Andrija Kuzmanović
	Winter in March	Natalia Mirzoyan
	Tarik	Adem Tutić
	Our Time Will Come (2025)	Ivette Löcker
	The Men's Land	Mariam Khatchvani
2024	Three Kilometres to the End of the World	Emanuel Parvu
	Arcadia	Yorgos Zois
	The Village Next to Paradise	Anab Ahmed Ibrahim
	Holy Week	Doru Bem
	Absent	Cem Demirer
	The Smell of Fresh Paint	Nađa Petrović
	A Picture to Remember	Olga Chernykh
	Like a Sick Yellow	Norika Sefa
2023	Blackbird blackbird blackberry	Elene Naveriani
	La Palisiada	Philip Sotnychenko
	Lost Country	Jovan Ginić
	27	Flóra Anna Buda
	Falling (2023)	Anna Gyimesi
	Bottlemen	Nemanja Vojinović
	Valerija	Sara Jurinčić
2022	Safe Place	Juraj Lerotić
	Klondike	Maryna Er Gorbach
	Corsage	Vicky Krieps
	Amok (2022)	Balázs Turai
	It's Not Cold for Mosquitoes	Josip Lukić Klara Šovagović
	Museum of the Revolution	Srđan Keča
	We, ... Composition	Visar Jusufi
2021	Great Freedom	Sebastian Meise
	Celts	Milica Tomović
	The Hill Where Lionesses Roar	Luàna Bajrami
	Everything Ahead	Mate Ugrina
	Summer Planning	Alexandru Mironescu
	Landscapes of Resistance	Marta Popivoda
2020	Exile	Visar Morina
	The Island Within	Ru Hasanov
	Mare	Marija Škaričić
	Digger	Vangelis Mourikis
	Anti-Waste	Tin Žanić
	Büyük İstanbul Depresyonu	Zeynep Dilan Süren
	Merry Christmas, Yiwu	Mladen Kovačević
2019	Take Me Somewhere Nice	Ena Sendijarević
	Kız Kardeşler	Emin Alper
	Rounds	Irini Jambonas
	And Then We Danced	Levan Gelbakhiani
	The Last Image of Father	Stefan Đorđević
	Sherbet	Nikola Stojanović
	When the Persimmons Grew	Hilal Baydarov
2018	Ága	Milko Lazarov
	Lemonade	Ioana Uricaru
	One Day	Zsófia Szamosi
	The Load	Leon Lučev
	Breath (2016)	Ermin Bravo
	Last Call	Hajni Kis
	Srbenka	Nebojša Slijepčević
2017	Scary Mother	Ana Urushadze
	Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things	Emanuel Pârvu
	Daybreak	Ornela Kapetani
	Into the Blue	Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
	Clean (2017)	Neven Samardžić
	City of the Sun	Rati Oneli
2016	Album	Mehmet Can Mertoğlu
	Godless	Irena Ivanova
	Dogs	Gheorghe Visu
	Transition	Milica Tomović
	A Mere Breath	Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan
2015	Mustang	Deniz Gamze Ergüven
	Chevalier	Vangelis Mourikis Sakis Rouvas
	A Matter of Will	Dušan Kasalica
	Toto and His Sisters	Alexander Nanau
2014	Song of My Mother	Erol Mintaş
	Brides (2014)	Mari Kitia
	The Chicken	Una Gunjak
	Naked Island	Tiha K. Gudac
2013	In Bloom	Nana Ekvtimishvili
	A Stranger	Bogdan Diklić
	Shadow of a Cloud	Radu Jude
	Sickfuckpeople	Juri Rechinsky
2012	Everybody in Our Family	Radu Jude
	Children of Sarajevo	Marija Pikić
	Redemption Street	Uliks Fehmiu
	The Return (2012)	Blerta Zeqiri
	Turn Off the Lights	Ivana Mladenović
2011	Breathing	Karl Markovics
	Loverboy	Ada Condeescu
	Mezzanine	Dalibor Matanić
	A Cell Phone Movie	Nedžad Begović
2010	Tilva Roš	Nikola Ležaić
	Tuesday, After Christmas	Mirela Oprișor
	Yellow Moon	Zvonimir Jurić
	The Seamstresses	Biljana Garvanlieva
2009	Ordinary People	Vladimir Perišić
	Dogtooth	Angeliki Papoulia Mary Tsoni
	Party (2009)	Dalibor Matanić
	The Caviar Connection	Dragan Nikolić
2008	Buick Riviera	Goran Rušinović
	Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom	Ayça Damgacı
	Tolerantia	Ivan Ramadan
	Corridor No. 8	Boris Despodov
2007	Takva	Özer Kızıltan
	Egg	Saadet Aksoy
	It's Hard to Be Nice	Saša Petrović
	Waves (2007)	Adrian Sitaru
	Interrogation (2007)	Namik Kabil
2006	Das Fräulein	Andrea Staka
	All for Free	Rakan Rushaidat
	Good Luck Nedim	Marko Šantić
	Facing the Day	Ivona Juka
2005	Lady Zee	Georgi Djulgerov
	What Is a Man without a Moustache?	Zrinka Cvitešić
	Labour Equals Freedom	Peter Musevski
	Before Dawn	Bálint Kenyeres
2004	Mila from Mars	Zornitsa Sofia
	A Wonderful Night in Split	Marija Škaričić
	How I Killed a Saint	Milan Točinovski
	Me Myself and the Universe	Hajo Schomerus
2003	Fuse	Pjer Žalica
	The Wallet	Vincent Bierrewaerts
2002	Saturday	Juan Villegas
	10 Minutes	Ahmed Imamović
2001	No Man's Land	Danis Tanović
	Copy Shop	Virgil Widrich
2000	Bleeder	Nicolas Winding Refn
1999	December 1–31	Jan Peters
1998	I Stand Alone	Gaspar Noé
1997	Ma vie en rose	Alain Berliner
1996	Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier

Special Jury and Jury Prizes

22 years listed (2003–2024); some years may be missing from the source data.

Year	Film	Director / winner	Award
2024	What We Ask of a Statue is That It Doesn’t Move	Daphné Hérétakis	Special Jury Prize
2023	Fairy Garden	Gergö Somogyvári	Special Jury Prize
2022	Fragile Memory	Igor Ivanko	Special Jury Prize
2021	Atanasija	Boško Krljaš	Special Jury Prize
2020	Holy Father	Andrei Dăscălescu	Special Jury Prize
2019	Stack of Material	Sajra Subašić	Special Jury Prize
2018	Nine Month War	László Csuja	Special Jury Prize
2017	Kinders	Arash T. Riahi	Special Jury Prize
2016	Godless	Ralitza Petrova	Special Jury Prize
	Scream for Me Sarajevo	Tarik Hodžić	Special Jury Prize
2015	Son of Saul	László Nemes	Special Jury Prize
	tititá	Tamás Almási	Special Jury Prize
2014	Brides (2014)	Tinatin Kajrishvili	Special Jury Prize
	Judgement in Hungary	Eszter Hajdu	Special Jury Prize
2013	A Stranger	Bobo Jelčić	Special Jury Prize
	The Cleaners	Konstantinos Georgousis	Special Jury Prize
2012	Tepenin Ardı	Emin Alper	Special Jury Prize
2011	Avé	Konstantin Bojanov	Special Jury Prize
2010	Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project	Kornél Mundruczó	Special Jury Prize
2009	Dogtooth	Yorgos Lanthimos	Special Jury Prize
2008	March	Klaus Händl	Special Jury Prize
2007	I Am from Titov Veles	Teona Strugar Mitevska	Special Jury Prize
2006	Mom and Dad	Faruk Lončarević	Special Jury Prize
2005	Kukumi	Isa Qosja	Special Jury Prize
2004	A Wonderful Night in Split	Arsen Anton Ostojić	Special Jury Prize
2003	Spare Parts	Damjan Kozole	Special Jury Prize

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