{"id":6407,"date":"2026-08-22T05:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:39:28","slug":"austrian-director-sandra-wollners-everytime-wins-best-film-at-sarajevo-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6407","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Director Sandra Wollner\u2019s \u2018Everytime\u2019 Wins Best Film at Sarajevo Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nSandra Wollner\u2019s \u201cEverytime\u201d continued its winning streak at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner took home the Heart of Sarajevo for best narrative feature film.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6406\">Paramount and State A.G. to Meet Monday to Discuss Settlement of Antitrust Case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Austrian director\u2019s third feature was the unanimous choice of a jury headed by two-time Academy Award nominee Emily Watson, which said in its citation: \u201cMoments of cinematic grace float through this mesmerically elastic and transcendental grief-soaked ghost story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cEverytime\u201d\u00a0follows a mother, young daughter and teenage boy who, united by tragedy, embark on a trip to the Canary Islands for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the coastal sun, past and present begin to quietly overlap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFollowing its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival,\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em>\u2019s chief film critic Guy Lodge praised Wollner\u2019s \u201cpoised, haunting\u201d drama, noting that it \u201cconfirms the Austrian director\u2019s formidable formal control and imagination, and should be her most widely distributed work to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Heart of Sarajevo for best director went to Georgian filmmaker Ana Urushadze for \u201cSupporting Role,\u201d another festival darling that scooped two prizes in Rotterdam earlier this year. In another unanimous choice, the jury members said they were \u201cenchanted by [Urushadze\u2019s]\u00a0irreverent blending of the banal and the oneiric, and her refreshing curiosity for meaning in life and cinema.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Variety<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0Beatrice Loayza was likewise swept up by the \u201cmesmerizing effect\u201d of the director\u2019s moody, meandering drama, which follows \u201ca lumbering movie star on a surreal and wryly melancholic soul-search\u201d on the streets of Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6405\">\u2018Spa Weekend\u2019 Review: Leslie Mann and Isla Fisher in a High-Concept Comedy Without the Comic Highs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe award for best actress went to Eva Kosti\u0107 for her lead role in \u201c17,\u201d the debut feature from North Macedonian director Kosara Miti\u0107, about a teenager on a class trip wrestling with the aftermath of a sexual assault. The jury heralded her performance as \u201craw, visceral and deeply instinctive\u201d and the\u00a0\u201cfearless emergence of a young talent,\u201d adding \u201cShe brings an extraordinary emotional truth to the role, announcing the arrival of an actress with a rare and powerful voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest actor honors went to Adrian V\u0103ncic\u0103\u00a0for \u201cYou Don\u2019t Belong Here,\u201d Romanian filmmaker Florin \u015eerban\u2019s\u00a0Locarno Golden Leopard winner about a respected doctor whose world is shaken when he discovers his son is a\u00a0suspect in the murder of a Roma man.\u00a0The jury praised V\u0103ncic\u0103\u00a0\u201cfor a performance marked by tenacity and understated rigor, in which the actor consistently serves a story directed in long and wide shots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary feature went to directing duo\u00a0by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazi\u0107 for \u201cTo Hold a Mountain,\u201d a story of sisterhood and solitude in the Montenegrin highlands. The film, which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize\u00a0at Sundance and the Grand Prix at Poland\u2019s Millennium Docs Against Gravity, was hailed as \u201can unforgettable journey\u201d by the documentary jury, which said in its citation: \u201cWith astonishingly epic cinematography this touching portrait of two extraordinary women and a disappearing way of life enchanted us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere\u2019s the complete list of awards for the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival:<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Narrative Feature Film:\u00a0\u201cEverytime,\u201d Sandra Wollner\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Director:\u00a0Ana Urushadze, \u201cSupporting Role\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Actress:\u00a0Eva Kosti\u0107, \u201c17\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Actor:\u00a0Adrian V\u0103ncic\u0103, \u201cYou Don\u2019t Belong Here\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>DOCUMENTARY FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Documentary Feature Film:\u00a0\u201cTo Hold a Mountain,\u201d\u00a0Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazi\u0107\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6403\">Bill Maher Puts Hunter Biden in the Hot Seat: \u2018I\u2019ve Seen You With Your Dick Out\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Short Documentary Film:\u00a0\u201cHoly Defiance,\u201d Karla Jeli\u0107\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpecial Jury Award:\u00a0\u201cThe Ferry Flows,\u201d\u00a0Zhora Papoian\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>NARRATIVE SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Narrative Short Film:\u00a0\u201cNobody Said Anything,\u201d\u00a0Tamara Todorovi\u0107\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpecial Mention:\u00a0\u201cPorkatal,\u201d\u00a0Sis G\u00fcrdal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>STUDENT SHORT FILM\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Student Short Film:\u00a0\u201cUnwellness,\u201d\u00a0R\u00e9ka Pincz\u00e9s\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>SPECIAL AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpecial Award for Promoting Gender Equality:\u00a0\u201c17,\u201d\u00a0Kosara Miti\u0107\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpecial Mention:\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t Ask Me if I Killed,\u201d Helena Maksyom\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpecial Youth Perspectives Award:\u00a0\u201cSkateboarding is Not for Girls,\u201d Dina Duma<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKatrin Cartlidge Foundation Award:\u00a0Lana Daher\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian director&#8217;s third feature continued its hot streak in Sarajevo, after triumphing in the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s Un Certain Regard strand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4965,1620],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-sandra-wollner-2","tag-sarajevo-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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