# Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival

The Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival (Bosnian: Sarajevski festival modnog filma / Сарајевски фестивал модног филма) is an international film festival held annually in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It exclusively showcases fashion films, advertising films, music videos and short documentaries on the fashion industry. It was established in 2015 by the Consortio Civium Invictum Foundation in cooperation with the London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week and the Madrid Fashion Film Festival.

## Format

SFFF was created in order to showcase and exhibit the new fashion cinematographic genre to wider audiences as well to create an institutional background to the increasing number of fashion films produced every year by fashion magazines and fashion production companies. The festival is held in December of every year and lasts for two days. It is made up of a competition and non-competition programme. As of 2017, the former is divided into 14 categories and includes the Dove of Sarajevo award for best overall fashion film. Further categories include Best Fashion Film, Best Music Video, Best National Film, Best New Talent, Best Photography, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Major Brand Production, Best Make-up and Hair, Best Story, Best Visual and Special Effect and Best Documentary. The maximum length of the films shown in the competitive selection is 20 minutes.

## Award winners

Selected categories:

### Dove of Sarajevo

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2016 | The Good Italian II | — | Emanuele Di Bacco | Italy |
| 2017 | Pearl | — | Brandon Jameson | USA |

### Best Fashion Film

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2016 | Thirty-Six Hours | — | Nowness | United Kingdom |
| 2017 | The Alphabet of Ben Sirach | — | Jana Nedzvetkaya | Russia |

### Best Music Video

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2016 | Myth HumanProduce | — | Manfre & Iker Iturria | Spain |
| 2017 | Film Princy | — | Metin Kuru | Turkey |

### Best National Film

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2016 | Diva | — | Belma Tvico | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2017 | Nature Needs You | — | Mark Peace | Australia |

### Best Young Director

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2016 | Pippin and the Pursuits of Life | — | Femke Huurdeman | Canada |
| 2017 | Café Midnight | — | Anastasia Venkova | Russia |

### Best Fashion Documentary

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2017 | Bianca | — | Adil Oğuz valizade | Turkey |

### Best Cinematography

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2017 | The Alphabet of Ben Sirach | — | Jana Nedzvetkaya | Russia |

### Best Actor

| Year | English title | Original title | Actor | Country |
| 2017 | Scappino | — | Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice | Italy |

### Best Actress

| Year | English title | Original title | Actress | Country |
| 2017 | Bello | — | Nina de Lianin | Serbia |

### Best Costume Design

| Year | English title | Original title | Designer | Country |
| 2017 | Casamorati | — | Michele Bizzi | Italy |

### Best Major Brand Production

| Year | English title | Original title | Designer/Brand | Country |
| 2017 | The Painting | — | Boldizsár CR / Vogue Italia | Italy |