Belgrade, 10 Aug (Xinhua) -- Sarajevo News: The 24th Sarajevo Film Festival kicked off at the State Theatre of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the evening of 10 August, and Oscar winner and Polish director Pavlikovski's new film "Cold War" was screened at the opening ceremony.
The film tells the love story of a pair of lovers with very different backgrounds and personalities during the Cold War who are destined to be entangled.
Director Pavlikovsky is 60 years old. His black-and-white film Sister Ida won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015. At the Cannes Film Festival in May, he won best director for "The Cold War."
The festival will run until August 17. According to the organizing committee of the film festival, a total of 266 films from 56 countries and regions participated in the exhibition and 75 films premiered.
Iranian director Asgar Farhadi, who won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for "The Salesman" and "A Parting Away," chairs the jury, and his self-written and directed Spanish-language film "Everybody Knows" will be screened at the festival.
The 59-year-old Turkish director Nuri Birgay Jeyran received the "Heart of Sarajevo Honorary Award" at this year's film festival for his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema. His film Hibernation won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Founded in 1995, the Sarajevo Film Festival has become one of the most influential film events in the Balkans and a city calling card of Sarajevo. (End)
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