Ruben Ostlund, Maura Delpero and Juho Kuosmanen are among the international directors who will attend the Croatian town of Slano for the second
Ruben Ostlund, Maura Delpero and Juho Kuosmanen are among the international directors who will attend the Croatian town of Slano for the second edition of Slano Film Days, running from June 17-21.
Presented in partnership with Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Sarajevo Film Festival, Slano Film Days aims to connect 14 emerging filmmakers from the region with established international professionals, through a programme of talks and screenings.
The participants consist of five directors, six actors, and three cinematographers.
The event was launched last year by Mirsad Purivatra, founder and former director of Sarajevo Film Festival.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
In addition to Ostlund, Delpero and Kuosmanen, international guests set to attend include Daniel Bruhl, Steve Buscemi and Michel Franco, and Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban cinematographer Michael Seresin.
Ostlund will discuss his experience making seventh feature The Entertainment System Is Down. He will be working on the edit for the film while in Slano, offering participants the opportunity to see his editing process.
The participants will also hear from directors including Jasmila Zbanic, whose credits include Quo Vadis, Aida?
The screenings programme will see Kuosmanen introduce Thomas Vinterberg’s 2020 gloomy comedy Another Round; while Bruhl will show his breakout role in Wolfgang Becker’s 2003 Goodbye, Lenin! and Buscemi will present Tolga Karacelik’s 2024 Psycho Therapy, in which he starred.
In advance of Carol Reed’s 1949 classic The Third Man, Pavel Pawlikowski will intro his 2024 tiny Muse, with a live piano performance of the score from composer Marcin Masecki.
All screenings will take place at the town’s open-air Villa Riva venue.
CineLink Workshop
Slano Film Days will also play host to the CineLink Workshop, part of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days. Last month eight feature film projects were selected to take part in the workshop, which consists of script development support through consultations and expert-led sessions.
Selected projects include Azeri filmmaker Hilal Baydarov’s Stone Over Stone, about a teenage couple living on a decaying construction site struggling to secure a hopeful future for their unborn child; and David Kapac’s 1920-set Croatian project Pogana, in which a woman is left a the mercy of the villagers on a Dalmatian island when her husband is lost at sea.
The workshop will also host five regional series projects, including Asmina Proedrou’s political thriller Beneath The Surface from Greece, already developed through Series Mania’s Institute programme.
After development at the workshop, all of the projects plus additional titles will participate in the CineLink Industry Days in Sarajevo, from August 15-22.
Slano Film Days aims to engage the local community via a Family Film Weekend, of two screenings at Villa Riva on the weekend before the event officially begins. It will first present Universal’s DreamWorks Animation live-action How To Train Your Dragon on June 14 – the weekend of its worldwide release – before Taika Waititi’s 2016 adventure comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople the following day.
Slano Film Days is supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Center, Film Center of Serbia, Film Center of Montenegro and Slovenian Film Center.
Slano Film Days 2025 participants
Directors
Gregor Bozic
Jelena Gavrilovic
Samir Karahoda
Ivan Marinovic
Nebojsa Slijepcevic
Actors
Iva Babic
Ylika Gashi
Marko Grabez
Maja Izetbegovic
Klara Kuk
Miso Obradovic
Cinematographers
Jana Andic
Milena Becanovic
Magdalena Pticek
COMMENTS