As part of this year's Avantpremiere Series programme of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, the audience will be presented with three series that viewers across the region are eagerly awaiting and which will only be available on regional tv programmes in the autumn/winter season, the SFF said on Tuesday, adding that each of the series is characterized by an interesting story, a great cast and a high level of production.

In the Avantpremiere Series programme, the audience will have a chance to watch the first two episodes of the first seasons exclusively on the movie screen, and meet their creators and cast members: Bones, Mom And Dad Are Playing War and Underneath. In this programme, drama series compete with each other for the Audience Award, sponsored by BH Telecom.

The local production Bones is based on the screenplay by Nikola Pejaković, the screenwriter of the series The Storks Will Return, and directed by Sasa Hajdukovic. Part of a trilogy, the series deals with two alienated individuals who, affected by war traumas, cannot fit into a devastated and corrupt society. The festival audience will also have a chance to watch Mom And Dad Are Playing War, produced by RTS and Filmkombajn, directed by Gordan Kicic and Vladimir Tagic, the co-creator of popular series Morning Changes Everything. The programme also includes UNDERNEATH, directed by Oleg Novkovic, with a great regional cast, amongst others, actors Goran Bogdan, Stefan Trifunovic and Boris Isakovic, who are in lead roles.

The Avantpremiere Series programme is exclusively dedicated to regional drama series. The profiling is due to the festival programme's growth and development through the extremely successful collaboration of CineLink Drama, the Festival's platform for the development of TV series, and the Avantpremiere Series programme – which screens the final product. The Sarajevo Film Festival develops this segment continuously but also keeps up with the growing trend of production and viewing of regional television drama series.