Edit with events footage and interviews from 16th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival. The 17th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from 22nd till 30th July, 2011. The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in the Balkans, and is one of the largest in Europe. The Sarajevo Film Festival has thirteen festival programs that are visited by 100.000 people each year. The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from October 25 to November 5, 1995. At that time, the siege of Sarajevo was still going on, and attendance projections were very low. However, a surprising 15000 people came to see the films, of which there were 37 from 15 different countries. The festival grew at a remarkable pace, attracting tens of thousands of people a year, as well as foreign celebrities such as U2’s Bono, and Willem Dafoe. By 2001, the European Film Association made the Sarajevo Film Festival one of the eleven festivals that could nominate a film for the award of "Europe's Best Short Film". In 2002, the Festival's choice of local Ahmed Imamovic's 10 Minuta went on to win it all. The 2001 winner of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land, went on to win an Oscar in the US. In 2004, the Best Movie Award was named "The Heart of Sarajevo". - Previous guests and participants : Fatih Akin Gillian Anderson Darren Aronofsky Juliette Binoche Orlando Bloom Bill Carter Bono Steve Buscemi Leos Carax Katrin Cartlidge Nick Cave Coolio Alfonso Cuarón Willem <b>...</b>