Sarajevo City of UNESCO Film and the City of Sarajevo on the occasion of the City Day, April 6, present to the public free of charge "Sarajevo City of Film" - Month of Short Films shot in Sarajevo, on the online platform of Meeting Point cinema: Ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba.
From April 6 to May 8, 33 short films made within the project "Sarajevo City of Film" will be available to viewers around the world on Ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba free of charge.
One short film will be posted on the online platform every day, which will be available to viewers for the next seven days from the moment it is posted on the platform. Screenings begin on April 6 with the film "Liberation in 26 Pictures" by Ivan Ramljak and Marko Škobalj (2009, 17 min.).
"Sarajevo City of Film" is a project of the Coast of the Art Center - Sarajevo Film Festival, launched with the mission to discover, support and promote the talent of filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider region, and to enable their cooperation and exchange of experiences in creating joint films. Within this project, in the period from 2008 until today, more than 300 young directors, screenwriters, producers, actors, cameramen, editors have shot their short films in Sarajevo.
"Thanks to the project, young professionals gathered in Sarajevo for the first time, met and worked together on a short film. Their films, together with their partners, were produced, financed, and then screened in front of a large audience by the Sarajevo Film Festival. Some of the films made within the project had an extremely successful festival life and achieved international success. From April 6, viewers around the world will have the opportunity to exclusively watch a selection of films shot in Sarajevo in the past 10 years as part of this project, "said UNESCO Sarajevo City Film City Manager Natasa Kucera.
"On the occasion of the Day of the City of Sarajevo, the audience will have the opportunity to watch free short films of various genres, all connected by the city of Sarajevo. The program symbolically begins on City Day, as a gift to the audience. We are pleased that audiences around the world will have the opportunity to see films made in our city, meet different art styles, artists of different generations and from different countries, all connected by a love of film art. Enjoy the films made in Sarajevo, the city of UNESCO films ", said the Mayor of Sarajevo Benjamina Karić.
On the Ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba platform, in addition to individual films, a video message from a part of the film's author team was posted as bonus content.
