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15th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL AWARDS
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
Jury:
President of the Jury:
MIRJANA KARANOVIĆ, Actress, Serbia
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
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
Goteborg 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 / OSLOBOĐENJE U 26 SLIKA
Ivan Ramljak, Marko Škobalj
KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION
This year, the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation marks the fifth year of presenting an award, in the form of a one-year scholarship, inspired by the life and work of late British actress Katrin Cartlidge. This year's scholarship recipient is Juanita Wilson. This year's award winner was selected and presented to viewers at SFF by actor Stellan Skarsgard.
