For its 30th edition last year, the Sarajevo Film Festival unveiled a bold revamp , shifting the nucleus of its activities from its traditional home in the heart of the city’s old town to its modern quarters, a move that festival topper Jovan Marjanović described as “setting the course” for the next 30 years of the celebrated Balkan event.

One year later, Marjanović insists that the work is only just beginning, as the organizers both incorporate and expand on the raft of changes introduced last year. On the eve of this year’s event, Marjanović tells Variety that his team is in the process of “fine-tun[ing] the festival to where we really want it to be.”

Last year saw the bulk of festival activities taking place around downtown Sarajevo’s Hotel Holiday and the adjacent Cineplex

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