Azerbaijani film "Gukhuroba" will be screened at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The film's world premiere will take place at the festival, to be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on August 14-21. 

Director Teymur Gambarov, the film narrates about a taxi driver who fulfills a friends request to deliver a wedding dress for his daughter from Baku to the highland village of Gukhuroba.

Another national film will be also shown at the festival. Directed by Rufat Hasanov, "The Island Within" tells about Seymur Tahirbayov who is one of the world’s leading chess grandmasters. A few weeks before the most important game of his career, he secretly travels to an island inhabited by a just one resident in order to rediscover himself.

"The Island Within" was shot by order of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture by Azerbaijanfilm and Debüt film studios, together with Arizona Productions, Coyote Cinema and Mandarin Agency. 

The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe, and is one of the largest film festivals in Europe.