About

Sarajevo Film Festival, a leading film festival in Southeast Europe, launched a network of festivals operating on the territory of the common language of the former Yugoslavia in 2020 (supported by the CE MEDIA programme). Alongside the Sarajevo Film Festival, the network initially gathered prominent festivals from the region: Zagreb Film Festival, Montenegro / Herceg Novi Film Festival and Auteur Film Festival. Starting from 2022 a fifth partner from Slovenia has been introduced - Ljubljana International Film Festival. Film Festival “Manaki Brothers” joins in 2024, together with two ambassadors of the European Discovery programme – Tirana Film Festival and Pesaro Film Festival.

These eight festivals share a mission to promote and circulate European audio-visual content and talent.

The governing principles of NFAR are:

  • a high level of solidarity towards filmmakers,

  • the launching of collaboration activities among festivals that enable the circulation of content and promotion of European talent,

  • the stimulation of financial exploitation for given titles to secure fair monetisation,

  • to secure more job opportunities for the professionals involved in the festival sector,

  • bringing more sustainable practices in our daily operations and audience development.