The 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina will open on Aug. 16 with the world premiere of “My Late Summer” by local filmmaker Danis Tanović , who won an Oscar with “No Man’s Land.” The comedy-drama centers on a young woman, Maja, who travels to a remote island to sort out her family’s inheritance.
In a whirlwind of emotions and surprising situations, she faces questions from her past. The search for inheritance becomes a search for her own identity, but also for forgiveness. The film will be screened simultaneously in Sarajevo at the National Theatre, at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema, at the Stari Grad open air cinema and at the Centar Safet Zajko open air cinema, and its premiere will also kick off the festival’s screenings in Mostar, at the BH Telecom Open Air Cinema Mostar, and in Tuzla, at the Bingo Open Air Cinema Tuzla.
Tanović won best screenplay at Cannes for “No Man’s Land” in 2001, and the film won the Oscar and the Golden Globe for the best foreign-language film in 2002. He is a two-time Silver Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival for “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker” (2013) and “Death in Sarajevo” (2016). In 2014, Tanović was awarded Sarajevo Film Festival’s Honorary Heart, recognizing his “outstanding contribution to film art” and his support of the festival.
“My Late Summer” was produced by Propeler Film in Croatia, and co-produced by Tangaj Production in Romania, Obala Art Centar in Bosnia .
