Winter edition of the Network of Festivals in the Adriatic Region – opening night:
Forever Hold Your Peace (Živi i zdravi)

Written by: Ivan Marinović
Director of Photography: Dominik Istenič
Editing: Michal Reich
Music: Toni Kitanovski
Cast: Tihana Lazović, Goran Slavić, Goran Bogdan, Snježana Sinovčić, Mirjana Joković, Nikola Ristanovski 

Production: Adriatic Western
Co-production: Analog Vision, Kinorama, Krug Film, Spok Film, RTCG

After the film, a conversation with director Ivan Marinović will be held.

Two days before her wedding the bride says she will not go through it even though everything is ready for the grand ceremony in a seaside town and everyone knows about it. Leso, the merciless patriarch of the groom’s family, offers this to the rebellious bride: Go forward with the wedding, go through the motions and then go wherever you want the next day. She accepts. The offended groom still hopes she will stay. The traditional wedding includes a series of absurd steps, steeped in alcohol, gunfire and dynamite. This farcical event also brings the worst of their personal anxieties into play.
 

Ivan Marinović 
Born in 1984 in Kotor. He graduated in industrial design from the Polytechnic University of Milan (2007) and received a master’s degree in film directing from the famous Prague film and television academy FAMU (2011).  He is a member of the European Film Academy. Forever Hold Your Peace is his second feature film. 

Filmography: 
2011 Hvali more, drž’ se kraja (Praise the Sea, Stick to the Shore, short)
2016 Igla ispod praga (The Black Pin)
2023 Živi i zdravi (Forever Hold Your Peace)
2025 Hotel*** (TV series) 

Between 22–29 January, free viewing of the following films will be available on the Sarajevo Film Festival's VOD platform:

Planet 7693 (Planeta 7693, by Gojko Berkuljan) 
Mother Mara (Majka Mara, by Mirjana Karanović) 
Family Therapy (Odrešitev za začetnike, by Sonja Prosenc) 
My Late Summer (Nakon ljeta, by Danis Tanović)