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18th Sarajevo Film Festival Final Report
Sarajevo Film Festival is the international festival with a special focus on the region of the South-Eastern Europe.
Focus on the regional film through the Competition selections for feature, short, and documentary films, film 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 SFF's status as the leading film festival in the region, recognised by both film professionals and the wider audiences.
In an emerging territory of more than 140 million inhabitants, the Sarajevo Film Festival serves as a common platform for film businesses from all over the region, setting the future standards in film festival organisation, film promotion and presentation of films in Southeast Europe. Furthermore, the Sarajevo Film Festival sets films, film talents, and future film projects from the South-Eastern Europe in the focus of international media attention.
The 18th Sarajevo Film Festival was opened with film CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO by the BH directress Aida Begić, and it was closed with THE ANGELS’ SHARE by Ken Loach.
During the nine days, audience of the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival was presented realizations by numerous eminent film makers.
19th Sarajevo Film Festival will be held from 16th to 24th August 2013.
The 18th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS:
• 21 PROGRAMMES
• 210 FILMS FROM 57 COUNTRIES
• 10 VENUES
• 330 EMPLOYEES and 280 VOLUNTEERS
• MORE THAN 1000 ACCREDITED GUESTS
• MORE THAN 800 ACCREDITED MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES FROM 32 COUNTRIES
• MORE THAN 100,000 VISITORS AT ALL THE PROGRAMMES
THE 18TH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
THE 18TH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL AWARDS
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
Jury:
President of the Jury:
Kornél Mundruczó, director, Hungary
Members of the Jury:
Frederic Boyer, art director of the Tribeca Film Festival, France/USA
Ada Condeescu, actress, Romania
Eva Diederix, cofounder and General Director, Elle Driver, France
Igor Martinović, cinematographer, USA
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Film:
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY / TOATA LUMEA DIN FAMILIA NOASTRA
Director: Radu Jude (Romania)
The financial prize for this awards, in the amount of 16.000 € is provided by the Council of Europe
Special Jury Award:
BEYOND THE HILL / TEPENIN ARDI
Director: Emin Alper (Turkey)
Financial prize for this award is provided by Agnes B. (10.000 €)
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Actress:
Marija Pikić (CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO) (BiH)
Financial prize for this award is 2.500 €.
The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Actor:
Uliks Fehmiu (REDEMPTION STREET) (Serbia)
Financial prize for this award is 2.500 €.
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM
Jury:
Ermin Bravo, actor, BiH
Nikola Ljuca, director, Serbia
Laurence Reymond, member of the Selection Committee, Directors’ Fortnight Cannes, France
The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Film:
THE RETURN / KTHIMI
Directress: Blerta Zeqiri (Kosovo*)
Financial prize (2.500 €)
Special Jury Mention:
THE PARAFINE PRINCE
Director: Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria)
Special Jury Mention:
DADDY RULZ / TATAL MEU E CEL MAI TARE
Director: Radu Potcoava (Romania)
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Jury:
President of the Jury:
Damir Šagolj, journalist, BiH
Members of the Jury:
Thomas Imbach, director, producer, Switzerland
Audrius Stonys, director, producer, Lithuania
The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Film:
TURN OFF THE LIGHTS / TURN OFF THE LIGHTS
Directress: Ivana Mladenović (Romania)
Financial prize for this award, in the amount of 3.000€ is provided by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Human Rights Award
REAL MAN’S FILM
Director: Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia)
Financial prize for this award, amountin 3.000€ is provided by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
HEART OF SARAJEVO HONORARY AWARD
Branko Lustig, producer, Croatia
CINELINK AWARDS
CineLink Jury:
Ada Jacqueline
Annamaria Lodato
Behrooz Hashemian
Čedomir Kolar
Georges Goldenstern
Michele Reilhac
Sanja Ravlić
Eurimages Coproduction Development Award - 30.000 €
A Blast
Writers: Syllas Tzoumerkas and Youla Boudali
Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas
Producer: Maria Drandaki
Greece
CNC CineLink Award – 10,000 EUR
Man Don’t Cry
Writer / Director: Alen Drljević
Producer: Damir Ibrahimović
BiH
International Relations Arte Award - 6.000 €
The Good Wife
Writers / Directors: Mirjana Karanović and Stevan Filipović
Producer: Snežana Penev
Serbia
Living Pictures Award – in kind postproduction services, 10.000 €
S.K.
Writers: Laszlo Nemes and Clara Royer
Director: Laszlo Nemes
Producers: Gabor Sipos, Gabor Rajna
Hungary
CineLink Excellence Award
Quiet People
Writer / Director: Ognjen Sviličić
Producer: Damir Terešak
Croatia
EAVE Scholarship
Dust Cloth
Director: Ahu Öztürk
Producer: Nesra Gürbüz
Turkey
CineLink Work in Progress award
CineLink Work in Progress Jury:
David Steinberger
Marion Klotz
Raymond Phathanavirangoon
Post Republic Award – in kind postproduction services, 80.000 €
Harmony Lessons
Director: Baigazin Emir
Producer: Anna Katchko
Kazakhstan
RestArt Award – in kind postproduction services, 20.000 €
Barbarians
Director: Ivan Ikić
Producer Milan Stojanovic
Serbia
Special Mention
Totonel
Director: Alexander Nanau
Producer: Marcian Lazar
Romania
THE 18TH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – PARTNERS AWARDS
SARAJEVO SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARD 2012
Jury:
Arta Dobroshi, Javier Martín-Domínguez and Elena Giuffrida
THE RETURN / KTHIMI
Blerta Zeqiri (Kosovo*)
The recipient of this Award thus enters the competition for the European Film Academy (EFA) Award for Best Short Film.
CINEUROPA AWARD
Jury:
Alberto La Monica and Vitor Pinto
CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO / DJECA
Aida Begić (BiH)
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.
CICAE AWARD
Jury:
Evelin Stark, Algirdas Ramaska and Csenkiné Túri Edit
CROSSING BOUNDARIES/ GRENZGÄNGER
Florian Flicker (Austria)
The International Confederation of Artistic Cinema (CICAE) will present an award to a film in the Competition Programme – Feature Film. The awarded film will be given CICAE's special support in distribution, screening and reaching the audience, by means of CICAE's network of 3000 cinemas.
EDN TALENT GRANT
Jury:
Damir Šagolj (President of the Jury), Audrius Stonys and Thomas Imbach
24 BUCKETS, 7 MICE, 18 YEARS/ 24 GĂLEŢI, 7 ŞOARECI, 18 ANI
Marius Iacob (Romania)
The EDN Talent Grant was established as a co-operation between the Sarajevo Film Festival and the European Documentary Network, with the purpose of helping talented documentary makers from the region.
THE BEST STUDENT FILM
Jury:
Ines Tanović, Zoran Galić and Selma Spahić
The Best Film
LUPUS
Ajla Hamzić (BiH)
Special Jury Mention
OMEGA
Igor Tešić (BiH)
Special Jury Mention
THE ROAD OF LIFE’S BEAUTY / PUT LJEPOTE ŽIVOTA
Amela Ćuhara (BiH)
DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS
Ain't No Cinderellas
Emel Celebi
Naked / Basil in the Stone
Tiha Gudac
Totonel
Alexander Nanau
HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD
Best feature film
THE INTOUCHABLES / INTOUCHABLES
Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
Best documentary film
MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
Matthew Akers
SARAJEVO CITY OF FILM
Atlantic Group Award
ROUNDABOUT / KRUŽNI TOK
Orsi Nagypal
KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION
This year marks the seventh year that a one-year scholarship award, inspired by the life and work of late British actress Katrin Cartlidge, is presented in Sarajevo. The winners of this year’s scholarship are Syrian authors Diana El Jeiroudi and Orwa Nyraba. The scholarship was awarded by the Academy Award winner, Jermy Irons.
WEDNESDAY, 11 JULY – SFF PRESENTED THE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DEDICATED TO THE SREBRENICA GENOCIDE MEMORIAL DAY
The Sarajevo Film Festival hosted the Human Rights Day for the fourth year running. The Human Rights Day is organized with the support of the Swiss Embassy in BiH and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is held as part of the Competition Program – Documentary Film.
This year’s special edition of the Human Rights Day program, which was dedicated to commemorating the genocide in Srebrenica, committed 17 years ago. Using the film as a media, the Festival presened to the wider audience the important individual and collective stories stand testament to the situation in the field of human rights today. The program of the entire day was dedicated to human rights and was included other activities besides film – book presentations, panels and exhibitions.
Alongside other events and screenings, THE FOSTERBOY by Markus Imboden, this year’s representative of the Geneva Film Festival and the Human Rights Forum, was screened as part of the Human Rights Day. After that, a press conference entitled Human Rights – Fiction or Reality? took place at 15:30 at the Meeting Point Cinema.
Filmmakers as well as activists Nenad Puhovski, Aida Begić, Šejla Kamerić, Jasmila Žbanić, Danis Tanović, filmologist Sanjin Pejković, theatre director Andrej Nosov and photographer Zijah Gafić discussed the issue of whether or not human rights today are fiction or reality, touching upon their experience and the way in which they have, through their work, dealt with the issue of human rights. Nenad Puhovski, the renowned Croatian director of documentary films and artistic director at the Zagrebdox festival, moderated the discussion. Numerous regional and international guests of the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival, who deal with the issues of protection and fight for human rights on a daily basis, attended the conference: YIHR, Cinema for Peace, Initiative for REKOM, Media Center Sarajevo, Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Federal Commission on Missing Persons, ICMP, BiH Ministry of Civil Affairs, Centre André Malraux, Modul Memorije, Human Rights Film Network, Balkan Documentary Center, the British Council, University of Sarajevo Human Rights Center, Al Jazeera, Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Sarajevo, Goethe-Institut, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, DocuFest, Migration Film Festival, Dokumentarni Film Festival, National Endowment for Democracy, Civil Rights Defenders, Human Rights Watch, Kriterion Sarajevo, Center for Cultural Decontamination, MakeDox, Belgrade Human Rights Center, the CURE Foundation, Silver Tape Short Film Festival Srebrenica, Society for Threatened Peoples, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, OKC Abrašević, Heartefact Fund, Helsinki Human Rights Committee in BiH, BHRT1, BH Film & TV productions, Fabrika, Deblokada, Saga, Refresh, Pro.ba, OSCE, OHR,UNDP, USAID, UNHCR, ICRC and many others.
THE 18TH SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL GUESTS
The guest list you can find here.
INDUSTRY
CINELINK SELECTION 2012
A BLAST
Writers: Syllas Tzoumerkas and Youla Boudali
Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas
Producer: Maria Drandaki
Greece
BRIDES
Writer / director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Georgia
COWBOYS
Writer / director: Tomislav Mršić
Producer: Suzana Pandek
Croatia
A GOOD WIFE
Writers / directors: Mirjana Karanović and Stevan Filipović
Producer: Snežana Penev
Serbia
LIGNITE
Writer: Effi Gavrilou
Director: Gregory Rentis
Producer: Maria Tsigka
Greece
MEN DON'T CRY
Writer / director: Alen Drljević
Producer: Damir Ibrahimović
BiH
PANAMA
Writers: Pavle Vučković and Jelena Vuksanović
Director: Pavle VuĊković
Producer: Tatjana Žeželj
Serbia
THE MINER
Writer / director: Hanna A. W. Slak
Producer: Dunja Klemenc
Slovenia
CineLink Plus selection 2012
4 BLOWS
Writer / director: Peter Kerek
Producer: Anca Puiu
Co-producer: Alexander Wadouh
Romania
CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN
Writer / director: Gabriel Dettre
Producers: Viktor Huszar and Ferenc Pusztai
Hungary
DUST CLOTH
Director: Ahu Öztürk
Producers: Çiğdem Mater and Nesra Gürbüz
Turkey
FATHER
Writer / director: Visar Morina
Producers: Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo and Visar Krusha
Kosovo / Germany
QUIET PEOPLE
Writer / director: Ognjen Sviličić
Producer: Damir Terešak
Croatia
S.K.
Writers: Laszlo Nemes and Clara Royer
Director: Laszlo Nemes
Producers: Gabor Sipos and Gabor Rajna
Hungary
SOUTH FACING WALL
Writer / director: Kutlug Ataman
Producer: Kutlug Ataman
Co-producer: Sezgi Ustun - Zeynofilm
Turkey
THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD
Writer / director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Producer: Verona Meier
Romania / Germany
THERE, OUTSIDE
Writer / director: Emre Yeksan
Producer: Ozgur Dogan
Turkey
WORK IN PROGRESS 2012
Barbarians
Director: Ivan Ikić
Serbia
The Bridge
Director: Bobo Jelčić
Croatia / BiH
Viktoria
Director: Maya Vitkova
Bulgaria / Romania
Standing Aside, Watching
Director: Yorgos Servetas
Greece
Harmony Lessons
Director: Baigazin Emir
Kazakhstan
White Shadow
Director: Noaz Deshe
Israel / Germany
6th SARAJEVO TALENT CAMPUS
Durign the period between July 7th and July 14th, young actors, directors, film critics, producers and scriptwriters from the region of South East Europe have had a chance to learn and network during the 6th edition of Sarajevo Talent Campus.
This year's edition was enriched with a new program for film critics and the participation of the filmmakers from four additional countries of the wider region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova. The participants attended a number of lectures, panel discussions, workshops designed for individual group of artists, screenings, as well as a networking opportunity organized in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung Foundation and Pack&Pitch program for selected group of participants. Moreover, they had a virtual encounter with the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science via video link to discuss the changing reality of making motion pictures.
The list of this year's guests includes Angelina Jolie, Nadine Labaki, Dana Budisavljević, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Labina Mitevska, Branko Lustig, Eyal Sivan, Remi Bonhomme, Ilian Metev, Orhan Eskikoy, Andy Paterson, Sydney Levine, Peter Belsito and many more.
Together with them and the old friends of the Sarajevo Talent Campus like Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Leon Lučev, Olivia Hetreed, Kate Leys, Licia Eminenti, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Katriel Schory, Nancy Bishop and Philippe Bober, the participants explored the different aspects of the topic of "Cinema and Possible Futures".
Under the mentorship of Dan Fainaru, a prominent film critic, a group of five young film critics worked on the texts you can read here.
All in all, a new generation of young filmmakers has discovered Sarajevo Film Festival as an opportunity as well as each other and hopefully will return soon to participate in Sarajevo City of Film project.
SARAJEVO CITY OF FILM
ROUNDABOUT / KRUŽNI TOK
BiH, Hungary, 2012
Directress: Orsi Nagypal
Roles: Leon LuĊev, Adnan Beširović, Irina Dobnik
SOMETHING SWEET / NEŠTO SLATKO
BiH, Serbia, 2012
Directress: Jelena Gavrilović
Roles: Sara Dacić, Mak Alijević, Ana Mandić, Jasna Đuričić, Rijad Gvozden, Adi Hrustemović, Selma Ćosić, Hana KalaĊ, Dora Glinac
OTHER PROGRAMMES
IN FOCUS
Within the programme In Focus audience had a chance to see 8 regional films showed at the most prestigious film festivals in the world.
TRIBUTE TO
The 18th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival had the great pleasure to, within its Tribute to… programme, present a retrospective of one of the most renowned directors of today Todd Solondz.
NEW CURRENTS
Within the New Currents programme, the audience has had a chance to watch 6 films. The aim of this programme is to change audience’s habits, to provoke those who like to research aesthetical forms and those who like strong directors. The New Currents programme screens first of all works by the authors who break out of the rules of film as a medium, and who test the limits of the film language.
NEW CURRENTS - SHORT
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.
KINOSCOPE
The new programme within the SFF comprises feature and documentary films, choosing 18 films from around the globe excluding the southeastern European territories which compose the festival’s competition strand. The focus is on distinctive titles marked out for their mise-en-scene and takes in great film authors as well as first and second film-makers.
OPEN AIR
This year’s Open Air was a first-class venture that satisfied the tastes of even the most passionate film lovers. This cinema attracted around 3.000 viewers on each night of the festival. It once again offered an unforgettable experience of watching films beneath a starlit sky, on one of the largest cinema screens in the region.
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME
Within the Children’s Programme the Sarajevo Film Festival showcased 7 feature and animated films. For the second time, the youngest audience had a chance to enjoy in 3D realizations as well.
TEENARENA
For the ninth year, within the TeenArena programme, the Sarajevo Film Festival screened films intended for teenagers. The audience had a chance to enjoy in 7 realizations.
ALL SHORTS
• Carte Blanche: Directors' Fortnight, Cannes
• Carte Blanche: Rotterdam Film Festival
• CIVIL LIBERTY/Human Rights Day
• European Film Academy
OPERATION KINO
Within the Operation Kino, 4 films were screened.
LAŠKO SUMMER NIGHTS
Within the Laško Summer Nights Programme, 7 realizations were screened.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
In its 18th edition, the Sarajevo Film Festival offered its audience 7 films within the Special Screenings programme.
BH FILM
Within the Bh. Film programme, 43 feature, documentary, short, and animated films were presented.
*This label does not prejudge the status of Kosovo and is in accordance with Resolution 1244 and the opinion of the ICJ on Kosovo's declaration of independence.
