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‘Wind Discuss To Me’ Wins Finest Function At Sarajevo Movie Competition

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Stefan Ðorďević’s Wind, Discuss to Me has snapped up the highest prize on the Sarajevo Movie Competition, taking the Coronary heart of Sarajevo award for Finest Function Movie. The Serbia-Slovenia-Croatia co-production, which earned €16,000 with the prize, is a mix of documentary and fiction and likewise stars the Serbian helmer and his household. 

The challenge sees Ðorďević reuninte together with his household to have a good time his grandmother’s birthday for the primary time since his mom died. In response to 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 Finest Director for her challenge Sorella Di Clausura whereas the ensemble forged of Fantasy  – Sarah el Saleh, Alina Juhard, Mia Skrbinac and Mina Milovanoviċ – all received for Finest Actress.

Yugo Florida star Andrija Kuzmanović took the prize for Finest Actor whereas Finest Documentary Movie went to Ivette Löcker’s Our Time Will Come. The latter challenge focuses on a yr within the lifetime of an interracial couple. 

Sarajevo’s 4 competitors sections included characteristic, documentary, quick and scholar movies. The pageant 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 total line up of the winners for the pageant, 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 Finest Movie takes a formally daring and inquisitive strategy to his very private topic, working together with his collaborators to mix components 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 is rarely 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. One of the 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 proficient actresses introduced nice charisma and authenticity to their roles. We proudly current the Finest 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 Finest Actor brings depth and complexity to a efficiency of misleading simplicity, as his character struggles to unlearn a lifetime of avoiding emotional closeness. Our Finest Actor Award goes to Andrija Kuzmanović.  

COMPTETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM 

Jury:  

Blake Levin (producer, USA)  

Cíntia Gil (movie curator, Portugal)  

Veton Nurkollari (inventive 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 wonder 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 could deliver to our frequent 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 Finest 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 capability 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 throughout the struggle, in addition to the ability of artwork, the jury is delighted to offer a particular point out to I Consider the Portrait Saved Me by Alban Muja. 

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM 

Jury:  

Teresa Cavina (pageant 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 achieved with distinctive precision and wonderful creativity. It’s an genuine story of internal battle that comes from dealing with 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 good and plausible human interactions, directed with youthful vitality 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, due to a visible strategy dominated by the fuzzy depth of subject, supported by intense performing and crisp dialogues. It isn’t 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 vital narrative points, for the main points which might 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 powerful 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 in the end 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 neighborhood and custom – a lighthearted and humorous, however extremely transferring story, enriched with endearing and vigorous performances by the younger actors and colourful cinematography, which we imagine has the potential to succeed in audiences, particularly the younger ones, all over the world. For giving voice to youth from small neighborhood, 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 guide, Poland)  

Dominique Welinski (producer and movie guide, 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 Finest Brief Movie Award.  

CICAE AWARD  

Jury:  

Alexander Omar Lang (movie curator and programmer, Germany) Sylvie Da Rocha (inventive 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 – Function Movie. The profitable movie receives CICAE help 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 in addition to having indeniable inventive qualities additionally promotes the thought of European dialogue and integration. The worth of this award is €5,000. 

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