Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its Open Air program, with films such as the Cannes-premiering Minotaur and Diego Luna‘s Ashes set to screen at the fest’s largest venue, the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema.
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, starring Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, will open the section at the Bosnian film festival, with Danis Tanović’s 2001 film No Man’s Land set to close it. The movie takes place in 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By a twist of fate, Čiki, a soldier in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, finds himself trapped in the same trench as Nino, a Bosnian Serb soldier.
Also premiering in the program is Luna’s film about two siblings forced to leave Mexico and head to Madrid to reunite with their mother, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. When they arrive, however, the bitter, suffocating reality that awaits them proves far harsher than imagined. Luna spoke to The Hollywood Reporter at Cannes about the making of the film and why it was a deeply personal project.
Also screening is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, another feature from Cannes, following a successful company director called Gleb, who finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world. The collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates towards violence.
