Festival Report

16^th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL FINAL REPORT

Sarajevo Film Festival is the international festival with a special focus on the South Eastern European region.

Focus on the regional film through the Competition selections for feature, short, and documentary films, strong industry segment (CineLink), an educational platform for young filmmakers (Sarajevo Talent Campus) and presence of the international film industry, film authors and media representatives alongside a paying audience of over 100,000, confirm its status as the leading film festival in the region, recognised by both professionals and the wider audiences.

In an emerging territory of more than 140 million inhabitants, Sarajevo Film Festival serves as a common platform for film businesses from all over the region, setting the future standards in festival organisation, film promotion and presentation in Southeast Europe.

Furthermore, Sarajevo Film Festival sets films, film talents, and future film projects from the South-Eastern Europe in the focus of international media attention.  

16th Sarajevo Film Festival was opened with the world premiere of the film CIRKUS COLUMBIA by the BH director, the Oscar winner, Danis Tanović. The Festival was closed with INVICTUS by Clint Eastwood, which was presented to the Sarajevo audience by the guest of honor of this year’s Festival, the actor, Oscar winner, Morgan Freeman.

Audience of the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival were presented the films by, among the others: Anahí Berneri, Ewen Bremner, Juan José Campanella, Damien Chazelle, Ada Condeescu, Mohamed Al-Daradji, Bruno Dumont, Jasmin Duraković, Barbara Eder, Lixin Fan, Michelangelo Frammartino, Morgan Freeman, Mira Furlan, Javier Godino, Xiaolu Guo, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Payman Haghani, Szabolcs Hajdu, David Lambert, Gemma Jones, Semih Kaplanoglu, Ágnes Kocsis, Nikola Ležaić, Sabina Maria van der Linden, Miki Manojlović, Lesley Manville, Samuel Maoz, David Robert Mitchell, Hans Petter Moland, Kornél Mundruczó, Michaela Müller, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Gaspar Noé, Michele Ohayon, Tulin Ozen, Álvaro Pastor, Rigoberto Pérezcano, George Pistereanu, Antonio Piazza, Shalimar Preuss, Laura Poitras, Aleksei Popogrebsky, Cristi Puiu, Roee Rosen, Simon Rumley, Ola Simonsson, Florin Serban, Eyal Sivan, Danis Tanović, Yağmur Taylan, Gust Van den Berghe, Juanita Wilson.

17th Sarajevo Film Festival will take place between the 22nd and 30th of July, 2011.

16th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS:

• 16 PROGRAMMES
• 201 FILM FROM 53 COUNTRIES
• 9 VENUES
• 1,458 ACCREDITED GUESTS
• 711 ACCREDITED MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES
   FROM 34 COUNTRIES
• MORE THAN 100,000 VISITORS

16th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL AWARDS

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM

Jury:
Jury President:
CRISTI PUIU, director, Romania

Jury members:
SAADET IŞIL AKSOY, actress, Turkey
LEON LUČEV, actor, Croatia
RACHEL ROSEN, Director of Programming of the San Francisco Film Association, USA
CHRISTINE VACHON, producer, USA

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film:

TILVA ROSH / TILVA ROŠ
Director: Nikola Ležaić
Serbia

The financial prize for this Award, in the amount of € 25.000, is provided by the Council of Europe.

Special Jury Award:

TENDER SON - THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT / SZELID TEREMTES – A FRANKENSTEIN - TERV
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
The Netherlands, Germany, Austria

The financial prize for this Award, in the amount of € 10.000, is provided by French fashion designer Agnes B.

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actress:

Mirela Oprisor
TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS / MARTI, DUPA CRACIUN
Romania

The financial prize, in the amount of € 2.500, for this Award is provided by the Sarajevo International Airport.

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor:

Marko Todorović
TILVA ROSH / TILVA ROŠ
Serbia

The financial prize for this Award is € 2.500.

COMPETITION PROGRAMME  – SHORT FILM

Jury:
DANICA DAKIĆ, conceptual artist, BiH
ERWIN VAN ‘T HART, Short Film Programme Selector, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Netherlands
MOLLY MALENE STENSGAARD, Custodian of Film, Danish Institute for Film, Denmark

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film:

YELLOW MOON / ŽUTI MJESEC
Director: Zvonimir Jurić
Croatia

The financial prize for this Award is € 3.000.

Special Jury Mentions:

NO SLEEP WON’T KILL YOU / NESPAVANJE NE UBIJA
Director: Marko Meštrović
Croatia

STANKA GOES HOME / STANKA SE PRIBIRA VKASHTI
Directress: Maya Vitkova
Bulgaria

This financial prize for each of the Mentions is € 1.000.

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Jury:
Dana Budisavljević, Directress and Founder of the Hulahop Company, Croatia
Catherine Le Clef, Founder and President of the CAT&Docs Company, France
Esther Van Messel, Producer and Founder of the First Hand Films Company, Switzerland

The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary Film:

THE SEAMSTRESSES / SHIVACKITE
Directress: Biljana Garvanlieva
Macedonia, Germany

This Award, in the amount of € 3.000, is provided by the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Human Rights Award:

MILA SEEKING SENIDA / MILA TRAŽI SENIDU
Director: Robert Tomić Zuber
Croatia

This Award, in the amount of €3.000, is provided by the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

HEART OF SARAJEVO HONORARY AWARD

Dieter Kosslick, Director, Berlin International Film Festival

CINELINK AWARDS

Eave Scholarship
Snežana Penev

Exellence Award
Circles by Srdan Golubovic

Living Pictures Service Award, in kind support up to 10.000 Euros
Necromancer by Arpad Bogdan

International Relations Arte Price, 6.000 Euros
Our everyday life by Ines Tanovic

CNC Award, 10.000 Euros
Hier by Balint Kenyeres

Eurimages Award, 30.000 Euros
Wolf by Bogdan Mustata

Synchro Film Vienna has awarded receipents of three development awards with lab services in value of 2500 Euro.

CineLink Work in Progress Awards

Restart Awardin knd support in amount of 20.000 Euros
The Slut by Hagar Ben Sher

Post Republic Award, in kind postproduction services, 80.000 Euros
Broken Mussels by Seyfetin Tokmak

16th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – PARTNER AWARDS

THE NOMINATION OF THE SARAJEVO CANDIDATE FOR THE 2010 EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY AWARD  

Jury:
FRANK W. ALBERS, Executive Director, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany
CHRISTINE DOLLHOFER, Director, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Austria
VLADIMIR PERIŠIĆ, Director, Serbia

RENDEZVOUS IN STELLA – PLAGE / RENDEZVOUS A STELLA -PLAGE
Director: Shalimar Preuss
France

The recipient of this Award thus enters the competition for the European Film Academy (EFA) Award for Best Short Film.

EDN TALENT GRANT

THE FLOOD / POPLAVA
Director: Goran Dević
Croatia

The EDN Talent Grant was established as a cooperation of the Sarajevo Film Festival and the European Documentarist Network, with the purpose of helping talented documentary makers from the region.

CICAE AWARD

Jury:
Christopher Gatt, Manager, St. James Cavalier, Malta
Gyorgy Karpati, Manager, Mozinet Itd., Hungary
Jennifer Jones, Creative Producer, Cologne Studio of TV Animation, Germany

BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL
Director: Szabolcs Hajdu
Hungary, Germany, Romania, Great Britain

The International Confederation of Artistic Cinema (CICAE) will present an award to a film in the Competition Programme – Feature Film. The recipient film will be given CICAE's special support in distribution, screening and reaching the audience, by means of CICAE's network of 3000 cinemas.

CINEUROPA AWARD

BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL
Director: Szabolcs Hajdu
Hungary, Germany, Romania, Great Britain.

This Award is presented by the Cineuropa Portal, which is dedicated to the European film industry and its filmmakers. The film, along with the fact that it undoubtedly possesses artistic qualities, also has to promote the idea of European dialogue and integration. The value of the Award is € 5.000. The winner of this Award is selected by Alberto la Monica, the director of the European Film Festival at Lecce.

HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD

Best feature film
CIRCUS COLUMBIA
Danis Tanović

Best Documentary film
PRESUMED GUILTY
Robert Hernández and Geoffrey Smith

SARAJEVO CITY OF FILM AWARDS

The Atlantic Group Award

THE TICKET COLLECTOR / REVIZOR
Director: Catalin Musat
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania

An Award of the British Council and the Operation Cinema Project

SMART GIRLS / PAMETNICE
Directresses: Hana Jusić, Sonja Tarokić
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia

KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION

This year marks the fifth year that a one-year scholarship award, inspired by the life and work of late British actress Katrin Cartlidge, is presented in Sarajevo. The winner of this year’s scholarship is the Cine Institute from Haiti, which was selected and introduced to audiences in Sarajevo by the curator of the Foundation Annie Nocenti.

MEDIA COVERAGE

Reporters from the 16th Sarajevo film Festival, among the others, were:

International press:
AFP, AP, BBC, BNN, Cahiers du Cinema, CNN, Corriere Della Sera, Cyprus Today, Daily Star, Der Tagesspiegel, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle, DPA, EPA, Euronews, Filmagazine.it, Freenet, Getty Images, Glasswerk, IndieWIRE, Le Monde, MTV, Reuters, Screen International, Sight & Sound Magazine, AP, The Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post, The Independent, The Irish Times, The Times, Tindingen kulturen, TRT, Variety, Voice of America, WDR...

Regional press:
24SATA, Adevarul, Anlayis, ARD, Blic, LIK magazine, Danas, Dnevni List, Dnevnik.hr, Delo, Dnevnik,Ekran, E-NOVINE, Globus, Gloria, HRT, Index.hr, Magyar Nemzet, Mladina, MTV Srbija, Nacional, Nepszabadsag, Nicha, Nova revija, Nova TV, Novi radio Beograd, ORF, Plima, Politika, Pop TV, Pravda, Primorske novice, Radio Capris, Radio FRO, Radio Slovenija, RTV Kragujevac, RTV Srbija, Radio Beograd 3, Ray Kino Magazin, RTV Kosovo, RTL Hrvatska, Radio Beograd, RTV B92, RTV Slovenija, RTV Studio B, Sfera, Slobodna Dalmacija, Splitski portal, Standartnews, STINA, Stop Magazine, Story Hrvatska, Story Slovenija, PINK Crna Gora, PINK Srbija, Vienna review, T-portal, Magyar SZÓ, Uncut, Utrinski Vesnik, Večernje Novosti, VIP, Večer, Vesti Vreme...

Local press:
BHRADIO 1, BHRT, Business Magazine, Depo, Dnevni Avaz, FEDERALNA NOVINSKA AGENCIJA (FENA), FTV, Glas Srpske, Global, Gracija, Hayat TV, Magazine, Maxi, Nezavisna novinska agencija Onasa, Nezavisne novine, Oslobođenje, Portal Radio Sarajevo, Radio 8, Radio Kameleon, Radio postaja Vrhbosna, Radio Sarajevo, Radio Slobodna Europa, Red Weekend Magazin, RSG Radio, RSG 1 Sarajevo, RTRS, RTV Visoko, RTV Vogošća, San, Source, Svijet, TVSA, TV Alfa, TV OBN, TV PINK BH...

16TH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL GUESTS

INDUSTRY

CINELINK SELECTION 2010
 
CIRCLES
Writer: Srđan Koljević
Director: Srdan Golubović
Producer: Jelena Mitrović
Serbia

DOMESTIC
Writer/Director: Adrian Sitaru
Producer: Monica Lazurean-Gorgan
Romania

LUTON
Writers: Michalis Konstantatos, Stelios Likouresis
Director: Michalis Konstantatos
Producer: Yorgos Tsourgiannis
Greece

MIRAGE
Writers: Szabolcs Hajdu, Jim Stark
Director: Szabolcs Hajdu
Producers: Gabor Kovacs, Andrea Taschler
Hungary

NIGHT LIFE
Writers: Damjan Kozole, Ognjen Sviličić
Director: Damjan Kozole
Producer: Danijel Hočevar
Slovenia

OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
Writer/Director: Ines Tanović
Producers: Alem Babić, Mirjana Momirović
Bosnia and Herzegovina

STAIN
Writer/Director: Emine Emel Balci
Producers: Emine Emel Balci, Gokce Isil Tuna
Turkey

TEGNAP/HIER
Writer/Director: Balint Kenyeres
Producer: Atilla Csaky
Hungary

THE DISOBEDIENTS
Writer/Director: Mina Đukić
Producers: Mina Đukić, Nikola Lezaić, Uroš Tomić
Serbia

THE NECROMANCER
Writer/Director: Arpad Bogdan
Producer: Gabor Sipos
Hungary

VOICE OF MY FATHER
Writer: Orhan Eskikoy
Director: Orhan Eskikoy, Zeynel Dogan
Producers: Nadir Operli, Ozgur Dogan
Turkey

The Selection Committee has also selected five projects in the CineLink Plus line-up, which are going to be presented directly at the CineLink Co-Production Market.

CineLink Plus Selection includes:

MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON
Writer/Director: Darko Lungulov
Producers: Snežana Penev, Darko Lungulov
Serbia

OF SNAILS AND MEN
Writer: Ionut Teinau
Director: Tudor Giurgiu
Producer: Oana Giurgiu
Romania

ST. ANNE IN THE FIELD
Writers: Zvonimir Jurić, Jelena Paljan
Director: Zvonimir Jurić
Producer: Ankica Jurić-Tilić
Croatia

WEEKEND
Writer: Norbert Kobli
Director: Aron Matyassy
Producer: Gergely Fodor
Hungary

WOLF
Writer/Director: Bogdan Mustata
Producer: Marcian Lazar
Romania

WORK IN PROGRESS

BROKEN MUSSELS
Director: Seyfettin Tokmak
Turkey

LIFE IN SQUARES
Director: Ivana Mladenović
Romania

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BELGRADE
Director: Bojan Vuletić
Serbia

SHADOWS AND FACES
Director: Dervis Zaim
Turkey

THE SLUT
Director: Hagar Ben Asher
Israel

SOMEWHERE IN PALILULA
Director: Silviu Purcarete
Romania

REGIONAL FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE FILM INDUSTRY IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
The environment in which films in Southeast Europe are being financed, produced, distributed and exhibited is experiencing substantial changes. While new opportunities are evident, in particular as a result of technological progress and its potential impact on a more diverse and improved access to film, the established business models are proving unsustainable, as film is not finding its fair share on screens region-wide. Between shrinking financing opportunities and an overall evolving landscape, can the industry embrace it all as an opportunity, and emerge stronger from the time of crises?

Sarajevo Film Festival and Screen International have once again teamed up to present the assembled film professionals from all spheres of the business and from all over the region, with a series of keynote speeches by the leading industry professionals,presentations of new public subsidy schemes and new business models, followed by a series of round table discussions on the burning issues the crises faced the industry with. 

MINI MARKET
Minimarket represents Sarajevo Film Festival’s mutual platform for short films. The aim of the Minimarket is to increase the visibility of the films within the Festival itself and develop their promotion and future distribution.

Minimarket’s activities include: screening of the short films within all Festival programmes (Competition Programme – Short Film, New Currents – Short Film, Sarajevo City of Film), special curator programmes of the eminent short film festivals, screening within the Industry segment, and lectures and case-studies.

Minimarket also represents a place for meeting and making contact of all who deal with the short film.

4th SARAJEVO TALENT CAMPUS

Sarajevo Talent Campus took place in the period between the 25th and 31st of July, 2010.


The general topic of this year, Sarajevo Talent Campus was “Storytelling – From Your Backyard to the World”, which made the entire programme of sessions more coherent and more ambitious comparing to the previous editions. The aim was to question the process of emerging of a film story: from the initial idea, sketch, through a script, to realization and distribution of the film, in a way that actors, directors, scriptwriters, and producers contributed with their specific experience in the work, and used the multitude of gained knowledge about this process. A series of workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and case studies was designed in such a way as to answer, from different perspectives, the question how the local, specific, and authentic reach the level of universal value.


In the focus of this year’s Sarajevo Talent Campus edition, there were also the ‘networking’ contents, as well as “Pack&Pitch”, a segment within which we offered selected participants a chance to, under the professional mentorship, learn how to analyze and prepare projects for presentation. Special attention was paid to short film form as well.


Sarajevo Talent Campus in numbers:
15 actors
19 directors
15 producers
15 scriptwriters

EXPERTS:
Ido Abram, Frank Albers, Kathi Bildhauer, Nancy Bishop, Frederic Boyer, Martichka Bozhilova, Reto Bühler, Damien Chazelle, Oleg Dubson, Bruno Dumont, Licia Eminenti, Michelangelo Frammartino, Morgan Freeman, Evá Gábor, Mike Goodridge, Izeta Građević, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Szabolcs Hajdu, Maike Mia Höhne, Vanja Kaluđerčić, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Ágnes Kocsis, Amira Kreševljaković, Jessica Landt, Aneta Lešnikovska, Leon Lučev, Miroslav Mandić, Samuel Maoz, Jovan Marjanović, Boris Mitić, Daniel Mitulescu, Falk Nagel, Kirsten Niehuus, Gaspar Noé, Zachary Oberzan, Alice Ormieres, Simon Perry, Ivan Ramadan, Sanja Ravlić, Renen Schorr, Katriel Schory, Karin Angela Schyle, David Silber, Carsten Spicher, Kristina Trapp, Christine Vachon, Gust van den Berghe, Erwin van `t Hart, Andrea Wink, Matthijs Wouter Knol, Jasmila Žbanić.

SARAJEVO CITY OF FILM

FRIGIDANCE/ FRIGIDANCE
BiH/Albania
Director: Kelmend Karuni
Screenplay: Dženan Medanović
Cast: Ivana Popović, Alena Džebo-Hećo, Ivan Koroman

REVERSE/ UNAZAD
BiH/Greece
Director: Georgis Grigorakis
Screenplay: Erenik Beqiri, Alexandra Safriuc, Ingebor Anna Topsoe, Georgis Grigorakis  Director of Cast: Mirvad Kurić, Vedrana Seksan, Irfan Durmić, Emir Drnda

SMART GIRLS/ PAMETNICE
BiH/Croatia
Directors and Screenplay: Hana Jušić, Sonja Tarokić
Cast: Marina Vodeničar, Karla Brbić, Edhem Husić, Enes Salković

THE TICKET COLLECTOR/ REVIZOR
BiH/Romania
Director and Screenplay: Catalin Musat
Cast: Amar Selimović, Izudin Bajrović, Inti Šraj, Sead Bejtović

OTHER PROGRAMMES

IN FOCUS
Within programme In Focus audience had a chance to see 7 regional films showed at the most prestigious film festivals in world.

TRIBUTE TO...
Sarajevo Film Festival had the great pleasure of presenting retrospective of one of the most renowned directors of today French Director Bruno Dumont.

NEW CURRENTS
New Currents presented its viewers 8 films. These were pieces with strong character- demanding and disturbing films hailing from all horizons.

NEW CURRENTS - SHORTS
This year’s New Currents-Shorts maintained its continuity in searching for provocative, creative, humorous and poetic films. Audience had a chance to see 16 films within this programme.

PANORAMA
Panorama, gave its audiences the chance to see 27 feature and documentary films. Since 1999, Panorama has strived to bridge avant-garde and mainstream films with exceptional narrative films. Invited directors range from debuting filmmakers to established veterans. The extraordinary quality of work determines its inclusion. Many of the films have been honored at top festivals.

OPEN AIR
This year’s Heineken Open Air was a first-class venture that satisfied the tastes of even the most passionate film lovers. We should also mention that almost all the films in the programme were introduced by either its actors or directors. This cinema, that attracted 3,000 viewer each Festival night, once again offered the unforgettable experience of seeing films beneath a starlight sky on the one of the largest cinema screen in the region.

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME
This year’s Children’s Programme at SFF showcased 13 feature, short and animated films geared to our youngest viewers. It also hosted the 5th Orbico Family Day at Sarajevo’s Vilsonovo Promenade.

TEENARENA
For the sixth year, Sarajevo Film Festival presented TeenArena, programme whose films are devoted to teenage viewers. This year’s TeenArena encompassed 16 feature and short films, with the Best Teen Film Award, according to the decision of a teen jury and viewers’ choice, going to VEGAS.

ALL SHORTS
• Carte Blanche: Berlinale shorts
• Carte Blanche: Oberhausen shorts
• European Film Academy
   
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
In its 16th edition, the Sarajevo Film Festival also presented viewers with four films as part of its Special Screenings Programme.

BH FILM
Bh. film presents to its viewers 7 feature, 10 documentary and 12 short and animated films as well as 2 special screenings.