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Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino, US star Dafoe honoured at Sarajevo Film Fest
WKZO - Michigan
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August 15, 2025
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will be honoured at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, which kicks off on Friday, alongside star actors Willem Dafoe, Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard....
She Bet on Women's Sports a Decade Ago, Now the Industry's Catching Up
Newsweek
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August 15, 2025
If there was any doubt before, there's none now. Fans are showing up, networks are paying up and brands are lining up. But long before "Everyone watches women's sports" went from a merch slogan to a movement, Sanja Komljenovic bet her entire...
Why Serbian Businessman Gave Up On An Investment In Sarajevo Worth Hundreds Of Millions Of BAM
Sarajevo Times
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August 15, 2025
Serbian businessman Miroslav Miskovic has definitely given up on his large investment in Sarajevo – the construction of a shopping center and residential complex in Stup. The media reported that Miskovic sold his company Standard nekretnine, which...
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History Of The Bosnia War [Part 2] – The Continuing Relevance Of The Bosnian Genocide
MuslimMatters
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August 13, 2025
[Read Part 1 Here] Still Relevant The Bosnian genocide that reached a pinnacle thirty years ago provoked widespread grief and horror both among Muslims and in the “West”. Yet little has been learned from the Bosnian tragedy, whose lessons continue...
Scottish Filmmaker Chases World War II Ghosts at Bosnian Necropolis
Balkan Insight
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August 15, 2025
Although he has long worked in an area ravaged by conflict, war is not what interests him most. “Just this idea of documenting peace and after war is really what I became interested in. How do you document peace? How do you tell this story? How do...
The quiet return of the diaspora – why more and more Bosnians are moving back home
New Eastern Europe
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August 13, 2025
Bosnia and its neighbours have traditionally faced issues with large segments of their populations moving abroad. However, this could well be changing. Attracted by improvements in quality of life, many diaspora members are thinking of returning...
From Gaming to AI to IP: Why Sarajevo’s Industry Event Is Doubling Down to Ensure Balkan Filmmakers ‘Are Part of the Conversation’
Variety
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August 14, 2025
In the more than two decades since it launched as the parallel industry arm of the Sarajevo Film Festival, CineLink Industry Days has established itself as the premier showcase and breeding ground for talent from the former Yugoslavia, growing its...
How Forward Thinking, a Fresh Look and ‘Young Blood’ From the Balkan Region Has the Sarajevo Film Festival Ready for the Future
Variety
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August 14, 2025
For its 30th edition last year, the Sarajevo Film Festival unveiled a bold revamp, shifting the nucleus of its activities from its traditional home in the heart of the city’s old town to its modern quarters, a move that festival topper Jovan...
Not enough snow anymore: How climate change is pushing Bosnian resorts to pivot to summer tourism
Euronews
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August 12, 2025
By AP with Indrabati Lahiri Published on 12/08/2025 - 12:01 GMT+2 A short drive from the Mediterranean coast, mid-altitude mountain resorts near Sarajevo- traditionally dependent on snow sports- are slowly but steadily pivoting to attract...
‘The Pavilion’ Director Dino Mustafić on Ageism, Dark Comedy and Desire in Sarajevo Fest Opening Film
Variety
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August 14, 2025
A group of spunky seniors launch an armed rebellion against the employees of their retirement home, where they’ve been subjected to years of abuse and humiliation. Abandoned by their loved ones and left with nothing to lose, they stage an...
Worrying results of coal, overburden production in BiH’s power utility
Balkan Green Energy News
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August 13, 2025
Increasing coal production is the only way to stabilize the energy system in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), Sanel Buljubašić told state news agency Fena. Focus.ba republished the report. FBiH is one of the two entities making up...
Mines, Memory, and Migration on Bosnia’s Perilous Border
Inkstick Media
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August 13, 2025
Believing Serbia’s favorable policy toward Cubans was ending, the Rodriguez family joined a group of their compatriots and headed for the border, where they paid a local fisherman to carry them across the Drina River in a wooden boat and into...
Local production call seeks '12 brave women' for Vagina Monologues
Collingwood Today
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Casting call for women 19 and older, no theatre experience necessary, tonight and tomorrow The producers of an upcoming production in Newmarket are hosting a casting call to find "12 brave women" Wednesday and Thursday. Auditions are being held...
The 52nd Plum Fair opened in Gradacac
Sarajevo Times
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August 27, 2025
In the presence of numerous guests and officials from the region and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the 52nd International Fair of Agriculture and Food Industry – Plum Fair was officially opened in Gradačac today. More than 150 exhibitors from Germany,...
Mapped: U.S. Tariff Rates by Country
Visual Capitalist
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August 28, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Mapped: U.S. Tariff Rates by Country This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from...
'12 brave women' wanted for Vagina Monologues production in Newmarket
Newmarket Today
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August 12, 2025
Casting call for women 19 and older, no theatre experience necessary, this Wednesday and Thursday The producers of an upcoming production in Newmarket are hosting a casting call to find "12 brave women" this Wednesday and Thursday in Newmarket....
License Comm. conducts two hearings; grants license for Popeye’s Restaurant
Revere Journal - Massachusetts
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August 28, 2025
The Revere License Commission held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday (August 20) in the City Council Chamber. Chair Robert Selevitch and fellow commissioner Dan Occena were on hand for the session. The main portion of the meeting...
Books, Gaming & TV Series: How Sarajevo Film Festival’s Industry Strand Is Adapting To The Ever-Changing Content Business
Deadline
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August 12, 2025
Last year, CineLink Industry Days, the industry strand of the Sarajevo Film Festival transitioned from the iconic 140-year-old Hotel Europe to the Marijin Dvor neighborhood of the city. Events were held at the more modern Swissôtel and a Festival...
Sarajevo's CineLink reveals its Work in Progress selection
Cineuropa
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04/08/2025 - The line-up features eight fiction and three documentary projects, including the new efforts by Urša Menart, Miroslav Terzić and Antonio Nuić Director Urša Menart, who is taking part with Everything That’s Wrong with You (© Katja...
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s power utility keeps posting losses amid weak output, increased imports
Balkan Green Energy News
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August 4, 2025
EPBiH’s target for the first six months of 2025 was BAM 11 million in profit. Instead, the state power utility generated a loss that was by BAM 18.76 million higher than in the same period of 2024, when the loss amounted to BAM 26.71 million,...