The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its Open Air section, the outdoor screenings held at the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema — the festival's largest venue. Eight award-winning titles will screen beneath the open sky from 14 to 21 August 2026, in Sarajevo and online. Variety

Opening the section is Fatherland, a Poland/Germany/Italy/France production directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. The film stars Sandra Huller, August Diehl, Hanns Zischler, Devid Striesow, and Anna Madeley, and follows Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a 1949 road trip across a Germany divided by the nascent Cold War. Pawlikowski, previously honoured by the festival with its Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award, is one of this year's Sarajevo honorees — and the Open Air programme reflects that, programming films directed by or starring the festival's celebrated guests. Variety

Another honoree, Diego Luna, is represented with Ashes (Ceniza En La Boca), a Mexico/Spain production he directed. The film follows siblings who leave Mexico for Madrid to reunite with their mother, and stars Anna Diaz, Adriana Paz, Luisa Huertas, and Benny Emmanuel. The festival's tribute to Woody Harrelson, also among this year's honorees, brings Welcome to Sarajevo — in which Harrelson starred — back to a city that knows the story all too well. Variety

The programme reaches beyond the honorees to gather some of the year's decorated festival titles. Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur, a France/Latvia/Germany production that won the Grand Prix at Cannes, is set in Russia in 2022 and stars Dmitriy Mazurov and Iris Lebedeva. Rodrigo Sorogoyen's The Beloved, a Cannes competition title, also screens. Shahrbanoo Sadat's No Good Men, which opened the Berlinale, is set in Afghanistan just before the Taliban's return in 2021 and follows Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul's main TV station. Variety

Rounding out the Open Air titles is Annemarie Jacir's Palestine '36, starring Hiam Abbass, Kamel El Basha, and Yasmine Al Massri, set during the 1936 Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule. The festival describes the Open Air programme as offering premieres of new Bosnian films alongside European cinema, independent American production, and work from other regions. Variety

Sarajevo has also revealed its Open Air Premiere section, a strand dedicated to new films from the countries of the former Yugoslavia — the region's most anticipated titles, gathered in one programme. Variety

The competition lineup, announced on 23 July, features 21 world premieres, six international premieres, one European premiere, and 23 regional premieres across the festival's competitive sections. Deadline Taken together, the two announcements sketch the shape of an edition that spans from Kabul to Palestine, from Cold War Germany to post-war Sarajevo itself — all projected on the festival's biggest screen, outdoors, in a city that has long made cinema a public act.