WARM Festival

08/06/2026

One month before this year’s WARM Festival, this is where we are.

A working map of some of the names, places, exhibitions, projects and conversations already coming together for this year’s festival.

Some things will still change. New things will be added. The official poster and visual identity are coming soon.

For now, this is WARM 2026 in progress.

Sarajevo, July 6–12. We hope to see you there.

08/05/2026

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐰: Sarajevo Masterclass | 1–5 July 2026

This intensive workshop, led by award-winning photojournalists Manu Brabo, Fabio Bucciarelli, Diego Ibarra Sánchez, and Bülent Kılıç, will sharpen your storytelling skills from concept to edit. Join us in Sarajevo and stay for the WARM Festival (6–12 July).

Only 35 spots! Learn more on our website.

WARM Foundation is partnering with Visual Factory on a new masterclass in Sarajevo, developed as a focused, five-day program in the lead-up to the WARM Festival 2026. The masterclass is built around the ethical and narrative questions that define contemporary photojournalism, with particular attenti...

31/03/2026

Good opportunity from our friends at INDEX.

They’ve launched the Environmental Humanities Fellowship, focused on the intersection of environment, culture, and conflict, with a strong connection to Ukraine and its wider context.

Deadline is approaching, so worth taking a look if this is close to what you’re working on.

WARM is pleased to share an opportunity from our partners at INDEX. INDEX has launched the Environmental Humanities Fellowship, inviting researchers, writers, and practitioners to engage with questions at the intersection of environment, culture, and conflict. The program supports projects that expl...

23/02/2026

📣 OPEN CALL | WARM ACADEMY 2026

The WARM Foundation is inviting applications for the 8th edition of the WARM Academy, to be held in Sarajevo from July 6-12, 2026, alongside the WARM Festival. Participation is limited to a selected group of participants, chosen through an open call process.

We welcome applications from students, researchers, artists, photographers, filmmakers, academics, journalists, and all individuals engaged in or passionate about reporting, art, research, and memory practices related to contemporary conflicts and post-conflict realities.

🎓In addition to the scholarship covering participation in the program, a limited number of grants covering accommodation and transportation costs will be available. We encourage applicants – especially those coming from countries with student and artist mobility programs – to seek additional support through universities, research institutions, NGOs, or other relevant organizations.

⏳Deadline: March 20, 2026 | Results: April 10, 2026

If you believe that art, reporting, and research are forms of resistance — this is your call.
If you are ready to listen deeply, share boldly, and grow collectively — join us.

📩 For more information and to apply: https://warmfoundation.org/events/warm-academy-2026-open-call/

05/02/2026

The WARM Festival and Academy 2026 will take place in Sarajevo from 6 to 12 July 2026.

Over the course of one week, WARM will present a wide-ranging program of exhibitions, book promotions, film screenings and premieres, theatre plays, music performances, interventions in public spaces, and important public conversations. Authors, artists, journalists, filmmakers, and audiences from around the world will gather to engage with work that addresses conflict, power, memory, and resistance with clarity, responsibility, and depth.

Alongside the festival, the WARM Academy will take place throughout the week, bringing together world-leading experts from different conflict-related fields who will share their experience and knowledge with the WARM network through lectures, masterclasses, discussions, and close working exchanges with carefully selected participants.

Sarajevo remains at the core of WARM, not only as a host city but as a place where difficult histories and urgent contemporary questions can be addressed openly and without compromise.

More details about the program and participants will follow. For now, save the dates and plan to be in Sarajevo in July 2026.

14/12/2025

Sasha Joelle Achilli is an Italian/Australian Emmy, BAFTA and DuPont award-winning documentary filmmaker specialising in international current affairs. Sara Obeidat is a multi-award-winning Jordanian-American investigative journalist and producer-director.

🎬 | Surviving Syria’s Prisons
Meeting Point | 14.12. at 6:00 PM

This edition of is organized in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival, with the support of Pro Peace BiH and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).
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Sasha Joelle Achilli je italijansko-australska dokumentaristica, dobitnica Emmy, BAFTA i DuPont nagrada, poznata po filmovima o međunarodnim aktuelnim temama. Sara Obeidat je višestruko nagrađivana jordansko-američka istraživačka novinarka, producentica i
rediteljica.

🎬 | Surviving Syria’s Prisons
Meeting Point | 14.12. u 18h

Ova edicija je organizirana u saradnji sa Sarajevo Film Festivalom, uz podršku
Pro Peace BiH i Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe Pro Peace - Bosnia and Herzegovina

13/12/2025

Mstyslav Chernov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, war correspondent, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, acclaimed for documenting conflicts from Donbas to Mariupol, inspiring the award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol.

🎬 | 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Meeting Point | 13.12. at 6:00 PM

This edition of is organized in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival, with the support of Pro Peace BiH and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).
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Mstyslav Chernov je ukrajinski filmski reditelj, ratni dopisnik i dobitnik Pulitzerove nagrade, poznat po izvještavanju iz Donbasa do Mariupolja i nagrađivanom dokumentarcu 20 Days in Mariupol.

🎬 | 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Meeting Point | 13.12. u 18h

Ova edicija je organizirana u saradnji sa Sarajevo Film Festivalom, uz podršku
Pro Peace BiH i Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe Pro Peace - Bosnia and Herzegovina

12/12/2025

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, twice nominated for an Oscar, has won international acclaim for films like “Four Daughters” and “The Man Who Sold His Skin”, earning top awards at Cannes and Venice. Her documentaries and shorts, including “Zaineb Hates the Snow” and “Wooden Hand”, further highlight her remarkable cinematic talent.

🎬 | The Voice of Hind Rajab
Meeting Point | 12.12. at 6:00 PM

This edition of is organized in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival, with the support of Pro Peace BiH and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).
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Rediteljica iz Tunisa, Kaouther Ben Hania, dvaput nominovana za Oscara, stekla je međunarodno priznanje filmovima poput “Four Daughters” i “The Man Who Sold His Skin”, osvajajući prestižne nagrade u Cannesu i Veneciji. Njeni dokumentarci i kratki filmovi, poput “Zaineb Hates the Snow” i “Wooden Hand”, dodatno ističu njen izuzetan filmski talenat.

🎬 | The Voice of Hind Rajab
Meeting Point | 12.12. u 18h

Ova edicija je organizirana u saradnji sa Sarajevo Film Festivalom, uz podršku Pro Peace BiH i Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe Pro Peace - Bosnia and Herzegovina

09/12/2025

| Surviving Syria’s Prisons
Meeting Point | 14.12. at 6:00 PM

The film tells the stories of thousands of missing Syrians, revealing the dark secrets of regime prisons through the eyes of survivors and former guards. It offers a rare and powerful glimpse into the brutality of the state’s repressive system, seen from both those who endured it and those who enforced it.

This edition of is organized in partnership with the Sarajevo Film Festival, with the support of Pro Peace BiH and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).
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| Surviving Syria’s Prisons
Meeting Point | 14.12. u 18:00

Film prati hiljade nestalih Sirijaca i razotkriva mračne tajne režimskih zatvora kroz svjedočanstva preživjelih i bivših izvršilaca. Riječ je o rijetkom uvidu u brutalnu kampanju državnog represivnog aparata, ispričanu kroz prizmu onih koji su preživjeli i onih koji su je sprovodili.

Ova edicija je organizirana u saradnji sa Sarajevo Film Festivalom, uz podršku Pro Peace BiH i Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe Pro Peace - Bosnia and Herzegovina

09/12/2025

| 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Meeting Point | 13 Dec | 18:00

Film follows a Ukrainian platoon on a mission through a heavily fortified forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. The film offers an immediate insight into the destruction of war, uncertainty, and the courage of both soldiers and civilians.

This edition of is organized in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival, with the support of Pro Peace BiH and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).
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WARMMovies | 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Meeting Point | 13.12. u 18:00h

Film prati misiju ukrajinskog voda kroz teško prohodnu šumu kako bi oslobodili strateško selo od ruskih snaga. Ova priča donosi neposredni uvid u ratne razaranja, nesigurnost i hrabrost vojnika i civila Ukrajine.

Ova edicija je organizirana u saradnji sa Sarajevo Film Festivalom, uz podršku Pro Peace BiH i Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES-SOE).

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe Pro Peace - Bosnia and Herzegovina