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VIVA Film Festival
LocationSarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Founded2015; 11 years ago (2015)
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.vivaba.com

The VIVA Film Festival is an annual documentary and short film festival that is based in Sarajevo and in 19 cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1][2] The festival showcases international films with ecological, natural hereligious, touristic themes, as well as youth-made films.[3] It was established by an international team of film professionals, environmentalists, diplomats, religious leaders and scholars that includes former US Vice President Al Gore (current festival Vice Chairman), Bosnian archeologist Semir Osmanagić and others, with the purpose of promoting inter-religious dialogue, the preservation of the environment and ecotourism.[4][5][6]

Format

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The festival is composed of five competition programs: Grand Prix, Ecology, Religion, Tourism and Youth-directed.[7] It is based in Sarajevo, where the centre piece events, projections and award ceremonies are held, but also travels to cities and towns across Bosnia and Herzegovina.[8] Each town has its own management department and they are all interlinked. Heads of the various management departments sit in the festival's managing council. Each year's competition selection includes more than 100 films from over 45 countries that tackle the issues of inter-religious dialogue, environmentalism and ecotourism.[9] A panel of filmmakers, religious and community leaders, writers and human rights advocates judges the entries, based both on their cinematic value and on their message, deciding on the three best films from each program.[10]

Award winners

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Grand Prix

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2015Baobabs between Land and Sea [11]N/aCyrille CornuMadagascar
2016Man From Salt [12]مرد نمکSajed Sayad MoosaviIran
2017The Last Warriors [13]N/aValentina IppolitoItaly, China
2018Our Roots [14]Nos RacinesAndré RussellFrance

Ecology

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2015WindEnds [15]N/aAndoni SanGaleySpain
2016Nature Needs You [16]N/aMark PeaceAustralia
2017Day After Day [17]दिवसेंदिवसNagnath KharatIndia

Religion

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2015As You Like It [18]N/aPaola OnetRomania
2016Jewish Blind Date [19]N/aAnaelle MorfSwitzerland
2017Bhikkhuni, Buddhism, Sri Lanka, Revolution [20]N/aMałgorzata DobrowolskaPoland
2018Roses for Ashes [21]N/aOnur KokTurkey
2019Tales of kokoro [22]Les contes de KokoroMathias Monet[23]France

Tourism

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2015The Glacier - An Alpine Legend [24]N/aMichael SchlambergerGermany
2016The Phenomenon of the Fortress [25]Fenomen tvrđavaDragan StojmenovićSerbia
2017Novalja - Eternal Beauty on the Island of Pag [26]N/aIvan PerićCroatia

Youth

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2016Ornament of the World [27]Ukras svijetaStefan KrasićSerbia
2017My Diary [28]Moj dnevnikPetra OmazićBosnia and Herzegovina

References

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