Stefan Ðorďević’s Wind, Speak to Me has snapped up the highest prize on the Sarajevo Movie Competition, taking the Coronary heart of Sarajevo award for Greatest Characteristic Movie. The Serbia-Slovenia-Croatia co-production, which earned €16,000 with the prize, is a mix of documentary and fiction and in addition stars the Serbian helmer and his household.
The mission sees Ðorďević reuninte along with his household to rejoice his grandmother’s birthday for the primary time since his mom died. Based on a synopsis, “this homecoming, pushed by Stefan’s urge to finish a movie about his mom in addition to an try to make amends by rescuing a strat canine, will ignite an introspective journey.”
Elsewhere, Ivana Mladenović picked up the Coronary heart of Sarajevo award for Greatest Director for her mission Sorella Di Clausura whereas the ensemble solid of Fantasy – Sarah el Saleh, Alina Juhard, Mia Skrbinac and Mina Milovanoviċ – all gained for Greatest Actress.
Yugo Florida star Andrija Kuzmanović took the prize for Greatest Actor whereas Greatest Documentary Movie went to Ivette Löcker’s Our Time Will Come. The latter mission focuses on a yr within the lifetime of an interracial couple.
Sarajevo’s 4 competitors sections included characteristic, documentary, quick and pupil movies. The competition screened 15 world, six worldwide, 28 regional and two nationwide premieres all through the eight-day occasion. A complete of fifty movies competed for the Coronary heart of Sarajevo Awards.
The jury comprised of Ukrainian helmer Sergie Loznitsa, who served as president, actor Dragan Mićanović, director-writer-actor Emanuel Pârvu, writer-director Ena Sendijarević and Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle.
Right here’s the complete line up of the winners for the competition, which wrapped August 22:
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
WIND, TALK TO ME / VETRE, PRIČAJ SA MNOM
Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia
Director: Stefan Đorđević
Producers: Dragana Jovović, Ognjen Glavonić, Stefan Ivančić
Award within the quantity of €16,000.
The filmmaker behind our Greatest Movie takes a formally daring and inquisitive method to his very private topic, working along with his collaborators to mix parts of fiction and documentary into a movie of beguiling melancholy and delicate magnificence. It’s our please to current the HEART OF SARAJEVO to the producers and director of WIND, TALK TO ME.
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Ivana Mladenović, SORELLA DI CLAUSURA
Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain
Award within the quantity of €10,000 is sponsored by the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with UNESCO.
The punk spirit isn’t far-off on this skilfully directed movie, which flows like a dostojevskean river, stacking failure on failure, to lastly arrive at a romantic comedy, however with out the romance. The very best director award goes to Ivana Mladenović, SORELLA DI CLAUSURA.
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS
FANTASY ensemble – Sarah al Saleh, Alina Juhart, Mia Skrbinac, Mina Milovanović
Slovenia, North Macedonia
Award within the quantity of €2,500.
In a movie exploring the distances between how we perceive ourselves and the way others understand us, our ensemble of gifted actresses introduced nice charisma and authenticity to their roles. We proudly current the Greatest Actress Award to the ensemble quartet on the coronary heart of FANTASY.
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR
Andrija Kuzmanović, YUGO FLORIDA
Serbia, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Montenegro
Award within the quantity of €2,500.
Our Greatest Actor brings depth and complexity to a efficiency of misleading simplicity, as his character struggles to unlearn a lifetime of avoiding emotional closeness. Our Greatest Actor Award goes to Andrija Kuzmanović.
COMPTETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Jury:
Blake Levin (producer, USA)
Cíntia Gil (movie curator, Portugal)
Veton Nurkollari (creative director of DokuFest and movie curator, Kosovo*)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
OUR TIME WILL COME / UNSERE ZEIT WIRD KOMMEN
Austria
Director: Ivette Löcker
Award within the quantity of €4,000 is sponsored by the Authorities of Switzerland.
AN OSCAR® QUALIFYING FILM
The Coronary heart of Sarajevo award for greatest documentary characteristic goes to a movie that mixes the sweetness and the challenges of making togetherness, with the generosity and rigour of creating movies within the intimacy of lives being lived. It’s a movie that builds a cinematic time and house for the complexities of affection and the politics of coexistence, valuing the richness that every individual might convey to our widespread areas.
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM
THE MAN’S LAND / KACEBIS MITSA Georgia, Hungary
Director: Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani
Award within the quantity of €2,000.
To a movie that brings ahead and challenges a centuries outdated customized. With unobtrusive, but shut and intimate digital camera work, and with exact modifying, we’re introduced a movie that speaks volumes about injustice and integrity. The Coronary heart of Sarajevo for Greatest Brief Documentary goes to Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani for her movie The Males’s Land.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
IN HELL WITH IVO
Bulgaria, United States
Director: Kristina Nikolova
Award within the quantity of €2,500.
For the filmmaker’s deft potential to let her iconoclast topic’s charisma and expertise erupt on display screen, shaping a story of Ivo’s performances that push audiences into discomfort with honesty, compassion, and connection, the Particular Jury Prize for Documentary goes to ‘In Hell With Ivo’ from director Kristina Nikolova.
SPECIAL MENTION
I BELIEVE THE PORTRAIT SAVED ME / MUA BESOJ MË SHPËTOJ PORTRETI
Kosovo*, Netherlands
Director: Alban Muja
To a formally daring movie that makes use of re-enactment to inform a narrative of survival through the struggle, in addition to the ability of artwork, the jury is delighted to offer a particular point out to I Imagine the Portrait Saved Me by Alban Muja.
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM
Jury:
Teresa Cavina (competition programmer and script physician, Italy)
Cem Demirer (cinematographer and director, Türkiye)
Nebojša Slijepčević (director and author, Croatia)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM
WINTER IN MARCH / LUMI SAADAB MEID
Armenia, Estonia, France, Belgium
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
AN OSCAR® QUALIFYING FILM
Award within the quantity of €2,500.
The Coronary heart of Sarajevo goes to the movie executed with distinctive precision and superb creativity. It’s an genuine story of inside battle that comes from going through your nation falling into the ethical abyss. The title of the movie is WINTER IN MARCH directed by Natalia Mirzoyan.
SPECIAL MENTION
ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG
Bulgaria
Director: Lili Koss
The particular point out goes to the playful movie that’s set towards the backdrop of the Bulgarian tough 90’s, the place youngsters, left to develop up by themselves, invent their very own world.
The narrative subtly emerges from witty sensible and plausible human interactions, directed with youthful power and supported by vivid cinematography. The title of the movie is ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG directed by Lili Koss.
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – STUDENT FILM
Jury:
Miroslav Mandić (director and author, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Nađa Petrović (author, screenwriter and director, Serbia)
Yorgos Tsourgiannis (producer, Greece)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST STUDENT FILM
TARIK
Serbia
Director: Adem Tutić
Award within the quantity of €1,000 is sponsored by the Regional Cooperation Council.
A teenage boy floats by means of the areas that outline his youth, because of a visible method dominated by the fuzzy depth of subject, supported by intense performing and crisp dialogues. It’s not a dreamy levitation, however the hardship brought on by poisonous masculinity of his friends and his household, primarily by his delicate soul. For the deliberate aesthetics that make use of remarkably sparse means and thus aptly convey essential narrative points, for the small print which can be totally thought of and subtly woven into the narrative, the award goes to TARIK directed by Adem Tutić.
SPECIAL AWARD FOR PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY
Jury:
Anna Croneman (producer and CEO of the Swedish Movie Institute, Sweden)
Ivan Marinović (director, author and producer, Montenegro)
Norika Sefa (director and author, Kosovo*)
GOD WILL NOT HELP / BOG NEĆE POMOĆI
Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France
Director: Hana Jušić
Award within the quantity of €7,500 sponsored by Mastercard.
The award goes to – an intense thriller, set in isolation, that flirts with style whereas creating one thing wholly by itself. Grounded in a robust sense of place, highly effective performances converse volumes with out extra dialogue in an environment each acquainted and uncanny. Its narrative challenges our assumptions and in doing so, it finally confronts us with emotions of not belonging.
SPECIAL YOUTH PERSPECTIVES AWARD
Jury:
Anja Jokić (youth coverage specialist, Serbia)
Eréndira Núñez Larios (producer, Mexico)
Milan Stojanović (producent, Serbia)
DJ AHMET
North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia
Director: Georgi M. Unkovski
Award within the quantity of €7,500 sponsored by the Council of Europe.
The Particular Award Youth Views goes to a movie about younger folks difficult their group and custom – a lighthearted and humorous, however extremely shifting story, enriched with endearing and full of life performances by the younger actors and colourful cinematography, which we consider has the potential to achieve audiences, particularly the younger ones, around the globe. For giving voice to youth from small group, this award goes to the producers and the director of the movie DJ AHMET.
PARTNERS’ AWARDS
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM CANDIDATE
Jury:
Gregor Božič (director, cinematographer, Slovenia)
Kasia Karwan (movie marketing consultant, Poland)
Dominique Welinski (producer and movie marketing consultant, France)
THINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
Greece, United States
Director: Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis
The winner receives candidacy for the European Movie Academy’s Greatest Brief Movie Award.
CICAE AWARD
Jury:
Alexander Omar Lang (movie curator and programmer, Germany) Sylvie Da Rocha (creative director, Cinema Zola, Portugal)
Diego Ginartes Rodríguez (movie curator, programmer and cultural producer, Spain)
WHITE SNAIL
Austria, Germany
Director: Elsa Kresmer, Levin Peter
The Worldwide Confederation of Artwork Cinemas (CICAE) bestows this award on a movie from the Competitors Programme – Characteristic Movie. The successful movie receives CICAE assist for distribution, exhibition, and viewers outreach, by means of a community of three,000 cinemas.
CINEUROPA PRIZE
Jury:
Srdjan Kurpjel (composer and sound editor, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Alfonso Rivera (movie journalist and critic, Spain)
DJ AHMET
North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia
Director: Georgi M. Unkovski
The prize is awarded by the Cineuropa portal, the positioning devoted to the European cinema and movie professionals, and is given to a fil that moreover having indeniable creative qualities additionally promotes the thought of European dialogue and integration. The worth of this award is €5,000.
