The Tuzla Film Festival is an annual film festival that takes places in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Focus The Tuzla Film Festival is organized by Magic Factory, with the aim of promoting South Slavic cinematography.
History Organizational efforts for the first festival began in 2010, requiring two full years because of lack of financial and human resources. The first festival occurred on August 22, 2012, at the Bosnian Cultural Center in Tuzla. In attendance were actors, directors, producers and business people from the former Yugoslavia.
The second festival featured a casting call for the film Atomski s desna directed by Srđan Dragojević, in which two local children (Ensar Hamzić and Danis Aljić) became the first children of Tuzla to be cast in a feature film.
The third annual festival introduced an international film competition.
Categories Tuzla Film Festival includes the following categories: feature film documentary short animated movie
In addition, the Tuzla Film Festival has two special categories: "Shoot with anything" "Future generation short films"
These categories aim to encourage participation of young filmmakers.
Awards The main award at the festival is called Vila TFF
Vila TFF for the best feature movie
Year English title Original title Director(s) Country 2012 Death of a Man in the Balkans (2012 film) Smrt čoveka na Balkanu Miroslav Momčilović 2013 A Stranger (2013 film) Obrana i zaštita Bobo Jelčić 2014 See You in Montevideo (2014 film) Montevideo, vidimo se Dragan Bjelogrlić 2015 Our Everyday Life (2015 film) Naša svakodnevna priča Ines Tanović 2016 Death in Sarajevo (2016 film) Smrt u Sarajevu Danis Tanović 2017 The Constitution (2016 film) Ustav Republike Hrvatske Rajko Grlić 2018 Miner (2017 film) Rudar Hanna Slak 2019 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija(2019 film) God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija Teona Strugar Mitevska
Vila TFF for the best short movie
Year English title Original title Director(s) Country 2012 Bardo (2012 film) Bardo Marija Apchevska 2013 Priča bez kraja (2013 film) Elvir Muminović 2014 Boxed (2014 film) Kutija Nebojša Slijepčević 2015 If the Sheep were Pink (2015 film) Kad bi ovce bile roze Đurđija Radivojević 2016 The Beast (2015 film) Zvjerka Daina Oniunas Pusić 2017 Iron Story (2017 film) Zeleznata prikazna Zlatko Kalenikov 2018 The Last Well (2017 film) Posljednji bunar Filip Filković 2019 Tina & Sendy (2018 film) Tina & Sendy Hani Domazet
Vila TFF for the best documentary movie
Year English title Original title Director(s) Country 2012 Bijelo Dugme (2012 film) Igor Stoimenov 2013 Mother Europe (2013 film) Mama Europa Petra Seliškar 2013 Neke djevojke su veće od drugih Anja Kavić 2014 Nobody's (2014 film) Ničiji Jadran Boban 2015 Prolaz za Stellu Ljiljana Šišmanović 2016 VietnamVijetnam Jovana Kovanović 2017 Scream For Me SarajevoScream For Me Sarajevo Tarik Hodžić 2018 Lica LaforeThe Faces of Lafora Denis Bojić 2019 Poštovana predsjedniceDear Mrs. President! Daniel Pavlić
Vila TFF for the best animated movie
Year English title Original title Director(s) Country 2012 Dove sei, amor mio (2012 film) Dove sei, amor mio Veljko Popović 2013 Fibonaccijev kruh (2013 film) Danijel Žeželj 2014 Aleric (2013 film) Alerik Vuk Mitevski 2015 Secret Laboratory of Nikola Tesla (2015 film) Tajni laboratorij Nikole Tesle Bruno Razum 2016 Ghost Town (2016 film) Grad duhova Marko Dješka 2017 The Dragon Aždaja Ivan Ramadan 2018 White Crow Bijela vrana Miran Miošić 2019 Malleus Dei Malleus Dei Dino Krpan
Vila TFF for the best film in "Future Generation Short Films" category
Year English title Original title Director(s) Country 2016 Face to Face (2016 film) Lice u lice Valerie Knill 2017 Revelation – The City Of Haze Revelation – The City Of Haze Mao Qichao 2018 The Box The Box Aristeidis Deligiannidis 2019 Elisabeth Elisabeth Noemi d'Ursel, Laura Bossicart
Notable guests People who visited the festival include: Lazar Ristovski Enis Bešlagić Emir Hadžihafizbegović Nikola Kojo Zlatan Zuhrić Jelena Perčin Slaven Knezović Srđan Dragojević Robert Kurbaša Asim Ugljen Zijad Gračić Ademir Kenović Hrvoje Barišić Miloš Samolov Miroslav Momčilović Mira Banjac Milutin Karadžić Filip Juričić Zijah Sokolović Momčilo Otašević Adnan Hasković
References
External links Tuzla Film Festival Official Website NGO "Magic Factory" Official Website