Turkish public broadcaster participates in Sarajevo Film Festival with 3 award-winning films

By Talha Ozturk

BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) - Türkiye's public broadcaster, TRT, will compete in the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) with three award-winning films set to run until Friday.

With a strong array of motion pictures, TRT is competing with Kanto, Club Zero, La Chimera and Blaga's Lessons.

More than 230 films from 70 countries will be screened at the festival.

Kanto by director Ensar Altay, tells the story of an elderly woman who suddenly disappeared but her disappearance was not noticed. Kanto will compete in the "Work in Progress" category of the SFF and the winner will be awarded with the "TRT award."

The Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi series, broadcast on TRT's digital platform, Tabi, will have its world premiere at SFF.

A panel will be held Aug. 13 where the script, production and broadcast processes of the series will be discussed.

Sector-related meetings and meetings will be held at the TRT Industry Terrace to be established in the festival area.

Forty-nine films in the feature films, short films, documentary films and student films categories will compete for the "Heart of Sarajevo" award.

The festival began 29 years ago to make the city a center of culture and art, and help heal the memories of the Bosnian War in the 1990s.

Past festival attendees included luminaries such as Robert de Niro, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, Orlando Bloom, John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu, Morgan Freeman and Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.