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Festival In Focus: How The Sarajevo Film Festival’s Dramatic Origins Have Shaped It Into A Dynamic Launching Pad For Regional Talent

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If there was ever doubt about the resilience of the cultural sector during times of great turmoil, one only need look to the Sarajevo Film Festival to see how an industry can, quite literally, rise from the ashes.

The festival began during the Bosnian War in 1995, in the midst of a near four-year siege on Sarajevo, which ravaged the capital.

To this day, it remains the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.Sarajevo Film Festival’s aim was to reconstruct and rejuvenate a city and its inhabitants, a set of people who had been cut off from the rest of the world despite being at the forefront of many international news segments.“When the festival began, people were living with no electricity and food shortages, with

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