MUMBAI: The 17th Sarajevo Film Festival kicks off today evening at Bosnia where German director Wim Wenders and actress Charlotte Rampling will be among the guests.

This year, the event will open with the screening of the "Le Havre" by Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki. 

Organizers expect over 40 artistes and politicians from the region to attend the screening of a Bosnian film The Orchestra said to be the biography of a pre-war rock group famous in the former Yugo.

In a span of eight days, some 100,000 viewers will get to see some of the 200 films from around a dozen countries.