As part of the competitive selections of the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival, which will be held from August 15th to August 22nd 2025, a large number of productions from Serbia will compete for the “Heart of Sarajevo” award alongside fifty other film productions.
As part of the competitive selection Competition program – feature film in the category of feature-length feature film, the film Yugo Florida by director and screenwriter Vladimir Tagić will have its world premiere.
Zoran works ata reality TV channel, leading a strange and almost meaningless life, which he shares with a drunk roommate and a reserved ex-girlfriend. But this life is turned upside down after his estranged and unbearable father becomes terminally ill, and he decides to take care of him and help him in the last weeks of his life.
The main roles are played by Andrija Kuzmanović, Nikola Kolja Pejaković, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Vahid Džanković, Hana Selimović.
The film is produced by Sense Production (Serbia), Contrast films (Bulgaria), La Belle Affair (France), Eclectica (Croatia) and Adriatic Western (Montenegro), and the film was created with the support of Film Center Serbia, the Bulgarian National Film Center, CNC – Cinema du Monde, the Croatian Audiovisual Center – HAVC, the Film Center of Montenegro and the Eurimages and Media Kreativna Evropa funds.
Within the same competitive program, after the world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, regional premieres will also be held by the films Sorella di Clausura, by Ivana Mladenović, Wind Talk to Me, by Stefan Đorđević, which had its world premiere at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, and DJ Ahmet, a Serbian minority co-production by Baš Čelik Film Company, directed by the Macedonian director Georgi M. Unkovski, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Festival.
Within the competition program – documentary selection, the short film Landing 1988, directed by Marta Popivoda, will have its regional premiere after the world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, while in the competition program – short film selection, the films A Fit of Hysterical Laughter by directors Matija Gluščević and Dušan Zorić and Upon Sunrise by Stefan Ivančić will both compete and also have their regional premieres.
Tarik, a short film by the young director, Adem Tutić, will have its world premiere at the festival, as part of the competition program – student film selection. Tutić was awarded the Bronze Egg award for the third best film, for the short film Forty at the Kustendorf International Music and Film Festival 2025.
Serbian actor Dragan Mićanović will be among the members of the jury in the category Competition program – feature film, in addition to director and screenwriter Sergej Loznica, director and screenwriter Ene Sendijarević, director, screenwriter and actor Emanuel Parvu and the director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle.