Prominent director and selector of our Festival, Goran Radovanović, has just selected 15 film productions that will be presented within the Competitive and Non-competitive program of the upcoming 9th Belgrade International Film Festival for and by people with disabilities - Bosifest. The Festival will take place on 10-12 October at the Sava Center.
Goran had a difficult task of choosing 15 films for the Festival out of 125 that were submitted for competition from Europe, SAD, Austarlia, Latin America and Africa.
Competition entry for the 9th Bosifest, officially published by the Festival organizer - Hendi Center Coloseum, lasted from November 25, 2017 to April 20, 2018.
Films that will be presented at the upcoming Festival have arrived from Germany, Chile, Greece, Georgia, Israel, Australia, Japan, Great Britain, Poland, France, Russia, Egypt, Italy, and Slovenia.
Competitive program
1. „Final Year“ (Chile), directors: Francisco Espinoza Pérez, Viviana Corvalán Armijo
2. „Sandgirl“ (Germany), director: Mark Michel
3. „With Open Wings“ (Greece), director: Vivian Papageorgiou
4. „Transparent World“ (Georgia), director: Vato Kuntsev
5. „An Alien Soul“ (Israel), director: Hadas Afari
6. „When Brenden Met Hiroe“ (Australia/Japan), director: Steve Mayer-Miller
7. „Notes on Blindness“ (Great Britain), directors: Peter Middleton, James Spinney
8. „My Moonlight Sonata“ (Poland), director: Barbara Kaczynska
9. „Right Side of Cello“ (Poland), director: Aleksandra Rek
10. „Rio or bust“ (France), director: Pawel Lisiak
Non-competitive program
1. „Blind Cinema“ (Russia), director: Grigory Glyants
2. „My Name is Nour“ (Egypt), director: Haisam Abdelhamed
3. „Defiant Lives“ (Australia), director: Sarah Barton
4. „Feel the Wind“ (Italy), director: Simone Saponieri
5. „Kristjan“ (Slovenia), director: Neli Maraž
Jury of the 9th Bosifest will give out following awards: Grand Prix for the best film, the award for the best director, the award for the best-case scenario, as well as special recognitions.
Bosifest is a unique film festival in our country, but also in the world context, since the whole program is devoted to different aspects of life of people with disabilities, and the films shown are relevant and outstanding achievements of documentary genre.
Watch the video attachments of the statements of this year's festival participants.
Luka Papić graduated in film direction at the HFBK Academy of Arts in Hamburg, in the class of Angela Šanelek in 2016.
His docu-fiction film "Without" (63 min, 2022) won the jury prize for the best medium-length film at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, as well as the Grand Prix and the jury prize for the best editing at the Beldocs festival in Belgrade.
She graduated on the Master’s Desk for Film and Television Directing at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
In 1998, her graduate film “Magic” received the awards for Best feature film and Bestdirector at the International Film Festivals. The film had screenings at numerous nationalfilm festivals, as well as in New York, Munich, Moscow, Kiev..
The 16th Belgrade International Film Festival of Persons with Disabilities
"BOSIFEST 2025"
will be held from October 20 to 22, 2025 at the Yugoslav Cinematheque.
Dragan Nikolić (1974) is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer of the documentary films POGREBNIK(2013), CAVIAR CONNECTION (2008) and NATIONAL PARK (2006), all three premiered at IDFA, the most important documentary film festival in the world. In addition, these films they were shown at over 80 other international festivals, with a total of 18 awards won.

Flying hands
Director : Paula Iglesias and Marta Gómez
Country: Spain
Runtime: 01:18:00

My friend Sega
Director: Artyom Gryanik
Country: Russian Federation
Runtime: 01:33:00

Zurvan
Director: Mohammadreza F. Habibi
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 14:51

Lucas, an endangered human species
Director: Éli Laliberté
Country: Canada
Runtime: 01:27:25


SOL
Director: Zahra Alboudi
Country: Syrian Arab Republic
Runtime: 42:01

Fist bump
Director: Madeleine Farley
Country: USA
Runtime: 60:00

Just like light
Director: Corrado Punzi
Country: Italy
Runtime: 01:07:00

The Other One
Director: Marie-Magdalena Kochová
Country: Czech Republic
Runtime: 01:27:00

Life after
Director: Reid Davenport
Country: USA
Runtime: 01:38:55

LE CAMERAMAN
Director: Marion Lary
Country: France
Runtime: 01:13:00
Director: Mohammadreza F. Habibi
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 14:51
Director: Marie-Magdalena Kochová
Country: Czech Republic
Runtime: 01:27:00
The 16th BOSIFEST – Film Festival by and about Persons with Disabilities, taking place from October 20-22 at the Yugoslav Film Archive, was officially opened today.
As part of the festival’s accompanying program, panel discussion was organized on Tuesday, October 21, at the Yugoslav Film Archive, entitled “The impact of film on shaping attitudes toward people with disabilities”.
The 16th BOSIFEST - Belgrade International Film Festival of Persons with Disabilities ended with the awarding of awards to the best films in the Yugoslav Film Archive.
Darko Lungulov completed film studies at CCNY, New York, USA, and a Master's degree in dramaturgy at FDU.
He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Department of Dramaturgy at FDU.
In 2004, his documentary ESCAPE (2004) won the audience award at the Hamptons International Film Festival.