#Nadina Štefančič

[festivalists]

The Freedom of Chaos

As we mark the 6th anniversary of Sarajevo Talent Press and our collaboration with the project, we also celebrate this year's topic: The Freedom of Chaos. Living up to Nicholas Davies' intro to the programme, knowledge was questioned, models were retooled, uncharted territories were explored, and a new narrative was created.

Apart from focusing on films reviews and radio interviews for Fred Film Radio, for the first time in 2018, STP participants had a chance to sit down with young filmmakers and create a collaborative photogram as part of the Shared Futures workshop. Led by the usual suspects Dana Linssen (co-programmer of IFFR Critics' Choice) and Yoana Pavlova (the initiator behind Festivalists' active approach to experimenting with various AV methods since the beginning of this year), the group came up with an intuitive and truly original solutions to the task, and within less than 30 minutes!

Please applaud the STP2018 entrants and make sure you keep an eye on their (multiple) talents!

Barbara Majsa, Hungary

I believe that using films to unfold history and/or promote values such as diversity, egalitarianism, human rights, democracy, etc., is a great way to provide a better understanding of the world. For this reason, I tend to write about films that deal with social, societal, economic, or political issues and/or human rights.

COLD WAR (co-created with Berrak Çolak)

CHRIS THE SWISS (2018) dir. Anja Kofmel - Kinoscope →

WHITE BONE DEATH / SMRT BIJELA KOST (2018) dir. Filip Mojzeš - Competition Shorts →

Jovan Marković, Serbia

I applied to Talents Sarajevo to advance my writing skill, to find appropriate balance between journalistic and academic style. I am interested in in-depth analysis of film, trying to understand the movie, to reveal its hidden meanings, not necessary to judge and evaluate it.

EVERYBODY KNOWS (co-created with Svetislav Dragomirović)

THE WILD PEAR TREE / AHLAT AĞACI (2018) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - In Focus →

BREATH / DAH (2018) dir. Ermin Bravo - Competition Shorts →

Mirela Vasileva, Bulgaria

My love for film started with a small art cinema in Sofia, where I first met Pedro Almodovar. Once or twice a week after school I was going there to watch his and many other European films and slowly my plan to study Law gave place to applying for the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts.

EVERYBODY KNOWS (co-created with Hani Domazet and Yana Lekarska)

EVERYBODY KNOWS / TODOS LO SABEN (2018) dir. Asghar Farhadi - Open Air →

UNTRAVEL / NEPUTOVANJA (2018) dir. Ana Nedeljković & Nikola Majdak Jr. - Competition Shorts →

Nadina Štefančič, Slovenia

Life listens to art when it is in contact with it. But for that art must be connected to the audiences, must find a way to talk to them. Writers can do that, can make films make sense, connect the stories with people who need to hear these stories, give the words to the images, find the meaning and importance behind the story, explain a way in which a film gathers experience and beauty or tells what people do not want to hear.

EVERYBODY KNOWS (co-created with Anja Kavić and Dritero Mehmetaj)

TOUCH ME NOT (2018) dir. Adina Pintilie - In Focus →

MORSKI BRIZ (2018) dir. Cecilia Ștefănescu - Competition Shorts →

Victor Morozov, Romania

Talents Sarajevo is such an opportunity – the opportunity to open up to the world and, simply put, to recalibrate. As a film critic, dialogue is mandatory; without it, you cannot evolve.

COLD WAR (co-created with Hanis Bagashov)

GIRL (2018) dir. Lukas Dhont - Kinoscope →

THE FOREST / TO DASOS (2018) dir. Lia Tsalta - Competition Shorts →