About

The Sarajevo Film Festival, a leading film festival in Southeast Europe, launched a network of festivals operating on the territory of common language of the former Yugoslavia in 2020 (supported by CE MEDIA programme). Alongside 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.

These five 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 circulation of content and promotion of the European talent,

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

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

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