Jury:

President of the Jury: Mirjana Karanović, actress

 

Jury members:

BENEDEK FLIEGAUF, Director, Hungary

CHRISTIAN JEUNE, Director of the Film Department of the Cannes Film Festival, France

ANAMARIA MARINCA, Actress, Romania

WIELAND SPECK, Director of Panorama Programme, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany

 

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:

 

ORDINARY PEOPLE

Director: Vladimir Perišić

Serbia, France, Switzerland

 

Explanation of the Jury: ORDINARY PEOPLE, as a pure moment of cinema, explores the universal pattern of abuse of male youth through the military structure.

 

Main award of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Competition Programme provided by Council of Europe (25,000 €)

 

The Special Jury Award:

 

DOGTOOTH / KYNODONTAS

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Greece

 

Explanation of the Jury: DOGTOOTH depicts in a metaphorical way, with elements of clinical humour how the traditional family structure had to retreat into a fortress of control and safety, inflicting its members with psihological damage that resonates with us all.

 

Financial award provided by Agnes B. (10,000 €)

 

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress:

 

AGGELIKI PAPOULIA

MARY TSONI

DOGTOOTH / KYNODONTAS

Greece

 

Financial award provided by the International Airport Sarajevo (2,500 €)

 

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor:

 

RELJA POPOVIĆ

ORDINARY PEOPLE

Serbia, France, Switzerland

 

Financial award in amount of 2,500 €

 

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM

 

Jury:

President of the Jury:

HANNAH MCGILL, Artistic Director, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland

 

Jury members:

MARIAN CRISAN, Director, Romania

IGOR STANKOVIĆ, Founder and director of the MCF MegaCom Film Distribution Company, Serbia

 

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:

 

PARTY / TULUM

Director: Dalibor Matanić

Croatia

 

Financial award in the amount of 3,000 €

 

Special Jury Mentions:

 

CIAO MAMA

Director: Goran Odvorčić

Croatia

 

THE HISTORY OF AVIATION / A REPÜLÉS TÖRTÉNETE

Director: Balint Kenyeres

Hungary, France

 

Financial awards in the amount of 1,000 €

 

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM

 

Jury:

President of the Jury:

ZIJAH GAFIĆ, Photographer, B&H

 

Jury members:

ALICE KLARA ARNOLD, Filmmaker and a film lecturer, Switzerland

CHRIS MCDONALD, Executive director of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada

 

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film:

 

THE CAVIAR CONNECTION / KAVIJAR KONEKŠN

Director: Dragan Nikolić

Serbia

 

Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

 

Special mention:

 

CONSTANTIN AND ELENA / CONSTANTIN SI ELENA

Director: Andrei Dascalescu

Romania

 

Human Rights Award:

 

HEATED BLOOD / VRELA KRV

Director: Marko Mamuzić

Serbia

 

Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

 

HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO AWARD: MANFRED SCHMIDT, Executive Director Of The MDM Fund

 

The Award is offered in recognition of the recipient’s outstanding contribution to film industry and support in development of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

 

Through the commitment and vision of its leading executive, the MDM Fund has played a significant role in aiding the development of regional film industry through numerous co-productions facilitated through the festival’s Industry Section and CineLink Project. Over the past 5 years, MDM has supported an outstanding 31 regional films, while their participation at the Sarajevo Film Festival, guided by the immense enthusiasm of Manfred Schmidt, has demonstrated a common understanding and recognition of potential that led to the realization of 5 CineLink projects that went on to screen at festivals around the world and receive numerous awards and critical recognition. MDM further supported two of the most recent Bosnia and Herzegovina films, „Snow“ by Aida Begic and „On The Path“ by Jasmila Zbanic. Though all this, Sarajevo Film Festival recognizes the immense contribution of Manfred Schmidt and MDM towards not only the enablement and promotion of this region’s cinema and authors but also the enrichment of the international film scene with new voices, outlooks and film language.

 

CINELINK AWARDS

 

Jury: Georges Goldenstern, Cedomir Kolar, Behrooz Hashemian, Jacqueline Ada, Ulf Sigvardson, Annamaria Lodato i Mainholf Zurhorst

 

EAVE Scholarship:

Snežana Marić

 

Excellence Award:

The Exchange by Eran Kolirin

 

Restart Award:

Zincograph by Javor Gardev

 

Goeteborg International Film Festival Fund Award:

The Scab by Srđan Vuletić

 

CNC Award:

Come To My Voice by Huseyin Karabey

 

International Relations ARTE Award:

The Key by Timur Makarević

 

SYNCHRO Film And Video Award:

The Scab by Srđan Vuletić

Come To My Voice by Huseyin Karabey

The Key by Timur Makarević

 

CineLink Work in Progress Award:

THE POST REPUBLIC AWARD

 

Jury: Rebekka Garrido, Laurent Danielou, Bernd Buder

 

If I Want to Whistle I Whistle by Florin Serban

 

15th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – PARTNERS AWARDS

 

SHORT FILM NOMINEE SARAJEVO FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009

Jury: Corneliu Porumboiu, Dylan Leiner, Eva Vezer

 

The Herd

Director: Ken Wardrop

Ireland

 

The winner also receives a nomination for the European Film Academy (EFA) Best Film Award.

 

CICAE

Jury: Erdmann Lange, Turi Edit Csenkine, Giovanni Petricciani

 

Eastern Plays

Director: Kamen Kalev

Bulgaria

 

The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) awards a film from the Competition Programme – Features. The awarded film will receive CICAE support in terms of distribution, exhibition and audience outreach, through a network of 3.000 cinemas.

 

FIPRESCI

Jury: Leo Soesanto, Damir Radić, Nadezhda Marinchevska

 

Ordinary People

Director: Vladimir Perišić

Serbia, France, Switzerland

 

EDN TALENT GRANT

 

On The Way To School

Director: Orhan Eskikoy, Ozgur Dogan

Turkey

 

EDN Talent Grant has been created as co-operation between the Sarajevo Film Festival and the European Documentary Network with the purpose of supporting promising new documentary filmmakers from the region.

 

HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD

SEVDAH

Director: Marina Andree

Croatia, B&H

 

ATLANTIC GROUP AWARD

LIBERATION IN 26 PICTURES

Ivan Ramljak, Marko Škobalj

 

KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION

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The awards in the five competitive sections of the 25th Warsaw Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize were presented to the winners on Saturday evening, 17 October.

The Warsaw Grand Prix, the main prize in the International Competition, funded by the city of Warsaw, went to LOURDES directed by Jessica Hausner (Austria / France / Germany). The prize was presented by Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.

The Special Jury Prize went to LA PASIÓN DE GABRIEL / THE PASSION OF GABRIEL directed by Luis Alberto Restrepo (Colombia). The prize was funded by RWE.

The winners of the 1-2 Competition were SHEVA DAKOT BE'GAN EDEN / SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN directed by Omri Givon (Israel) and EASTERN PLAYS directed by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria). The prizes were funded by Alior Bank.

The Free Spirit Awards went to PURGATORIO / PURGATORY directed by Roberto Rochin Naya (Mexico) and MAL DÍA PARA PESCAR / BAD DAY TO GO FISHING directed by Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay). The prizes were funded by Empik.

The award for the best full-length documentary went to DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR directed by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma (Estonia). The prize was funded by BenQ.

In the Shorts Competition the winner was APUNTES SOBRE EL OTRO / NOTES ON THE OTHER directed by Sergio Oksman (Spain). The prize was funded by the Polish Filmmakers' Association.

The FIPRESCI Prize (from the International Federation of Film Critics, www.fipresci.org) for the best Eastern European debut went to REWERS / REVERSE directed by Borys Lankosz (Poland).

 

RESULTS OF THE AUDIENCE POLL

Two films received exactly the same mark for the first time ever - 4.77. In the feature film category, the joint winners were:

Dom zły / The Dark House, dir. Wojciech Smarzowski (Poland)

and Welcome, dir. Philippe Lioret (France).

In the documentary category, the winner was Hashmatsa / Defamation, dir. Yoav Shamir (Israel / Denmark / Austria / USA).

In the shorts category, the winner was The Pig, dir. Dorte W. Hogh (Denmark).

 

The festival guests came from 41 different countries. They included 192 filmmakers linked to the projects presented at the festival (directors, producers, actors, scriptwriters, cameramen) and jury members. It is a tradition of the WFF that meetings with filmmakers are held after screenings. The 25th WFF had as many as 112 such meetings, involving 128 makers of 68 films. WFF audiences had the opportunity to meet filmmakers such as Alex van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe, Michael Imperioli, Yves Hinant, Tarik Saleh, Urszula Antoniak, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Gliński, Janusz Mrozowski, Wojciech Smarzowski, Paweł Borowski.

The festival was held in the heart of Warsaw, with screenings at Multikino Złote Tarasy, Kinoteka, and Kultura.

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The 56th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday was high on the Bollywood quotient owing to the presence of celebrities like Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Farhan Akhtar. President Pratibha Patil gave away the awards to the winners.

The 56th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday was high on the Bollywood quotient owing to the presence of celebrities like Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Farhan Akhtar. President Pratibha Patil gave away the awards to the winners.

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Leading Indian and US film makers have formed a Hollywood-Bollywood coalition to fight piracy in the South Asian nation -- one of the world's biggest movie markets.

Leading Indian and US film makers have formed a Hollywood-Bollywood coalition to fight piracy in the South Asian nation -- one of the world's biggest movie markets.

Leading Indian and US film makers have formed a Hollywood-Bollywood coalition to fight piracy in the South Asian nation -- one of the world's biggest movie markets.

Producers of the Indian movie Orange, which is being shot in Melbourne in the Telugu language and is primarily spoken in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, have said that their objective

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