16th Sarajevo Film Festival Partners’ Awards

On Friday, 30 July 2010, the Partners’ Awards of the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival were presented to their recipients on the Festival Square Terrace. The award ceremony was followed by a screening of short films nominated for the European Film Academy Award.
 

• 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
Direction: Shalimar Preuss
France

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

This is how the Jury explained their decision: The award goes to a film whose courageous cinematic use of an open structure emancipates its spectator.
 

• EDN Talent Grant

POPLAVA (THE FLOOD)
Direction: Goran Dević
Croatia

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

This is how the Jury explained their decision: The film was selected for its skilful filmmaking, beautiful images, and its story told with sweet irony. A story that brings us a micro-cosmos is an example of how politics, church and media are far from of the real needs of people.
 

• CICAE Award

BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL
Direction: 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.
 

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

This is how the Jury explained their decision:  We selected this film for the following qualities: originality; cinematography – use of colours; exceptional story and story-telling; art direction/ set design; organic and fanciful vision; the modern adaptation of an imaginative fairytale; and a sensitive, yet „light“ touch in dealing with a difficult subject. An excellent story: cinematic, compelling, innovative.
 

• Cineuropa Award

BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL
Direction: 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 promotes 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.
 

This is how Albert la Monica explained his decision: "We feel it is important to highlight the film’s theme about the white slavery market infesting the countries of the European Union. Artists have, over the years, been tackling this wound that cannot be healed, their work sensitizing public opinion. We found the director’s mise-en-scène highly interesting, for it is through the effective use of signifiers that the film scrupulously builds a metaphor for the protagonist’s suffering, as in bygone tales of fairies."

Photographs from the award ceremony you can see here.