Wind, Talk to Me by Serbian director Stefan Đorđević won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film as the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival closed on August 22. The docu-fiction drama topped a nine-title competition curated from regional and world premieres, with the jury led by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa.
Jurors also awarded Ivana Mladenović Best Director for Sorella di Clausura, Andrija Kuzmanović Best Actor, and a shared Best Actress prize to Sarah Al Saleh, Aline Juhart, Mina Milovanović and Mia Skrbinac for their ensemble work in Fantasy. The documentary award went to Ivette Löcker’s Our Time Will Come, with special mentions across non-fiction and shorts.
Đorđević’s feature, a Serbian-Slovenian-Croatian co-production, premiered earlier this year in Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition. Built around the filmmaker’s own family after the death of his mother, it blends staged and observational material and runs 100 minutes. Sales are handled by Heretic.
Festival organizers said this year’s edition screened 227 films and series from 65 countries, with 50 works competing across feature, documentary, short and student strands. Audience honors went to Georgi M. Unkovski’s DJ Ahmet for Best Feature and Ryan Sidhoo’s The Track for Best Documentary.
The festival ran August 15–22, with the main competition jury comprising Loznitsa, Dragan Mićanović, Emanuel Pârvu, Ena Sendijarević and Tricia Tuttle. Separate tributes recognized visiting artists, including recipients of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo.
