The entertaining opening film of the Sarajevo Film Festival is about a feisty thirtysomething woman who falls in love with a charming island when she collects an inheritance there.

“My Late Summer” is a delightful Croatia-set dramedy helmed by Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanović (“No Man’s Land”) and produced by Zagreb’s Propeler Film. The regional co-production is both entertaining and imbued with a poignant wistfulness, and features several of the director’s regular collaborators on the cast and crew. It centers on feisty 30-something Maja (Anja Matković), who travels to a remote island determined to answer questions about her past — and collect a piece of an inheritance she feels is rightfully hers. While her personal mission takes longer than expected, the island’s charming locale, quirky locals and an unexpected romance help focus her feelings about her identity and ambitions.

Operating in a lighter mode than the harshly sharp works of his early career, “My Late Summer” benefits from Tanović sharing screenplay duties with lead actor Matković, as well as his “Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair” co-writer Nikola Kuprešanin, resulting in a more nuanced and multifaceted female character than is typical of his films. Indeed, Maja is reminiscent of a strong Howard Hawks heroine, straining both physically and verbally.

Maja’s reasons for coming to the picturesque island of Prvić in the off-season aren’t fully revealed at first, though unanswered phone calls from her increasingly angry mother eventually fill in the gaps. After a local lawyer (Marija Škaričić) reveals that her case will take some time, Maja takes a job as a bartender offered by the island’s left-wing mayor, Icho (the affable Goran Navojec), who conveniently also provides a place to stay. Despite having no waitressing experience, Maja is more than capable of serving the locals and foreign tourists alike in the mayor’s outpost pub.