EIGHTH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL OPENED

SARAJEVO, Aug 17 (Hina) - Screenings of Ahmed Imamovic's "Ten Minutes" and Phil Alden Robinson's latest hit, "The Sum of All Fears", opened the Eighth Sarajevo Film Festival on Friday. #L# Imamovic's work, which won the best short feature film award at the recent Motovun Film Festival in Croatia, was met with rapturous applause by the audience in the Bosnian capital. Bosnia's and the region's biggest film festival will feature 130 films from 36 countries, including the most important works in the short, documentary, and feature category. The event also includes a special festival of animated and feature films for children. Among the special guests of this year's edition is British director Mike Leigh, whose retrospective will be screened as part of the "Tribute" programme. One of the festival's sponsors is the Croatian Embassy to Bosnia- Herzegovina, through the mediation of which the Sarajevo public will be able to see some of the best work of recent Croatian production. The Sarajevo Film Festival closes on Aug. 24. (hina) ha