Das Sarajevo Film Festival vergab seine Preise mit Herz.
Vom 11.-18. August 2017 fand in Sarajevo zum 23. Mal ein internationales Filmfestival statt, das seinen Schwerpunkt in der Filmauswahl auf Osteuropa und Südosteuopa legt.
"Die andere Seite der Hoffnung", der Silberne Berlinale-Gewinner von Aki Kaurismäki aus Finnland eröffnet das Sarajevo Film Festival, wie wir am 10. August 2017 in unserer ausführlichen Vorberichterstattung schrieben.
Erstmals gab es neben dem offiziellen Wettbewerb einen zweiten Wettbewerb für Studentenfilme regionaler Filmschulen und Filmakademien. Die zahlreichen Filmstudenten*innen wurden bei ihren Bewerbungen und Vorstellungen sowohl für den europäischen wie auch für den Weltmarkt tatkräftig vom Festival auf dem "market access point" unterstützt und konnten ihre Werke sowohl dem Publikum präsentieren wie auch mit Ehrenmitgliedern John Cleese and Oliver Stone besprechen.
Sowohl Oliver Stone, US-amerikanischer Regisseur, Drehbuchautor und Produzent als auch der britischer Komiker, Schauspieler, Drehbuchautor und Synchronsprecher John Cleese, der Mitglied von Monty Python berühmt wurde, sind auf dem Festival mit dem "Heart of Sarajevo Award" ausgezeichnet worden.
Das Herz von Sarajevo für den besten Film des Festivals.
Das Herz von Sarajevo für den besten Spielfilm ging an "SCARY MOTHER" von Ana Urushadze. Die Koproduktion von Georgien und Estland hatte seine Welturaufführung kürzlich auf dem A-Filmfestival in Locarno am Lago Maggiore in der italienischen Schweiz gehabt. Hier der Trailer:
In ihrem Erstlingswerk befasst sich die georgische Regisseurin Ana Urushadze mit den unbeschriebenen Gesetzen der osteuropäischen Kulturgesellschaft, in der Frauen gezwungen sind, brave Ehefrauen und sorgsame Mütter zu werden. Die Absolventin des historischen Shota Rustaveli Theaters und der Film University (TAFU) hat zuvor bereits zwei Kurzfilme gemacht und widmet sich in ihrem Debütfilm der Rolle der Frau im heutigen Georgien.
Nachfolgend die Auflistung aller Preise:
OFFICIAL AWARDS
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
Jury:
Michel Franco, Director, Writer, Producer (President of the Jury, Mexico)
Members of the Jury:
Mark Adams, Artistic Director of EIFF (UK)
Goran Bogdan, Actor (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia)
Fatma Al Remaihi, CEO of Doha Film Institute (Qatar)
Melisa Sözen, Actress (Turkey)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
"SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA"
Georgia, Estonia
Director: Ana Urushadze
Producer: Lasha Khalvashi
Financial Award, in the amount of 16.000 €.
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR
EMANUEL PÂRVU
"MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS / MEDA SAU PARTEA NU PREA FERICITĂ A LUCRURILOR"
Romania
Financial Award, in the amount of 10,000 €.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
"DIRECTIONS / POSOKI"
Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia
Director: Stephan Komandarev
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS
Ornela Kapetani, "DAYBREAK / DITA ZË FILL"
Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €.
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR
Şerban Pavlu, "MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS / MEDA SAU PARTEA NU PREA FERICITĂ A LUCRURILOR"
Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €.
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM
Jury:
Igor Drljača, Director and Writer (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada)
Milica Tomović, Director (Serbia)
Florian Weghorn, Programme manager of Berlinale Talents (Germany)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM
"INTO THE BLUE / U PLAVETNILO"
Croatia, Slovenia
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
"SOA"
Montenegro
Director: Dušan Kasalica
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
"COPA - LOCA"
Greece
Director: Christos Massalas
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – STUDENT FILM
Jury:
Boaz Frankel, Director and editor (Israel)
Guillaume de Seille, Producer (France)
Teona Strugar Mitevska, Director (Macedonia)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST STUDENT FILM
"CLEAN / ČISTOĆA"
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Neven Samardžić
Financial Award, in the amount of 1,000 €.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
"LJUBLJANA - MÜNCHEN 15:27 / LJUBLJANA - MUNICH 15:27"
Slovenia
Director: Katarina Morano
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Jury:
Claas Danielsen, CEO of Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung GMBH (MDM) (Germany)
Gitte Hansen, Deputy Director of First Hand Films, International Sales & Services | Swiss Distribution (Switzerland)
Želimir Žilnik, Director (Serbia)
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
"CITY OF THE SUN / MZIS QALAQI"
Georgia, USA, Qatar, Netherlands
Director: Rati Oneli
Financial award, in the amount of 3,000 €.
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR COMPETITION PROGRAMME DOCUMENTARY FILM
"KINDERS"
Austria
Directors: Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi
Financial Award, in the amount of 2,500 €.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
"HOME / DOM"
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Zdenko Jurilj
HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD
"MR. GAY SYRIA"
Turkey, France, Germany
Director: Ayse Toprak
Best film of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film dealing with the subject of human rights. Award in the amount of 3,000 €.
HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO
John Cleese, Actor
Oliver Stone, Director
AUDIENCE AWARD:
Feature Film:
"THE FROG", by Elmir Jukić
Documentary Film:
"THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS", by Oliver Stone
Young Audience Award:
"MEN DON'T CRY", by Alen Drljević
CINELINK AWARDS
CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS
CineLink Co-Production Market Jury:
Uldis Dimisevskis, Georges Goldenstern, Behrooz Hashemian, Čedomir Kolar, Annamaria Lodato, Tomi Salkovski and Jani Thiltges.
EURIMAGES COPRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD
"HALF-SISTER"
Director: Damjan Kozole
Writers: Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart
Producer: Danijel Hočevar
Production company: Vertigo
Slovenia - 20.000 €
MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY CINELINK AWARD
"HOLY EMY"
Director: Araceli Lemos
Writers: Araceli Lemos, Gulia Caruso
Producers: Elina Psykou, Giulia Caruso, Konstantinos Vassilaros
Production company: StudioBauhaus
Greece - 10.000 €
ARTE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CINELINK AWARD
"CAT IN THE WALL"
Directors: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Writer: Mina Mileva
Producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Production company: Activist38
Bulgaria - 6.000 €
SPECIAL MENTION
"THE GREAT TRAM ROBBERY"
Director: Slobodan Šijan
Writers: Slobodan Šijan, Biljana Maksić, Vladimir Mančić
Producer: Marko Paljić
Production company: Gargantua Films, Serbia
MDM EAVE SCHOLARSHIP
Konstantinos Vassilaros / "HOLY EMY"
WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS
Work In Progress Jury:
Paolo Bertolin, Petra Gobel, Paz Lázaro, Hedi Zardi and Serkan Yildirim.
TRT AWARD
"HONEYLAND"
Directors: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska
Producers: Ljubo Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev
Production company: Apollo Media, Trice Films
Macedonia - 30.000 €
POST REPUBLIC AWARD
"THE DAY AFTER I’M GONE"
Director: Nimrod Eldar
Producer: Eitan Mansuri
Production company: Spiro Films Ltd
Israel - 50.000 €
RESTART AWARD
"WHAT COMES AROUND"
Director: Reem Saleh
Producers: Reem Saleh, Konstantina Stavrianou
Production company: Mazameer Productions
Lebanon / Egypt / Qatar - 20.000 €
CINELINK DRAMA AWARD
CineLink Drama Award Jury:
Meinolf Zurhorst, Tatjana Andersson and Giacomo Durzi.
FILM CENTER SERBIA CINELINK DRAMA AWARD
"ALL PANTHERS ARE PINK / SVI PANTERI SU PINK"
Creators: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović
Writer: Dimitrije Vojnov
Director: TBC
Producers: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović
Production company: Unafilm, Art & Popcorn
Germany, Serbia - 10.000 €
SPECIAL MENTION
"GLYCERIN / GLICERIN"
Creators: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić
Writers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić
Director: Miloš Pušić
Producers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić
Production company: Altertise, Serbia
23rd SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL PARTNER'S AWARDS
AWARDS OF ASSOCIATION OF BOSNIAN FILMMAKERS
Ivica Matić Award
Redžinald Šimek
Ivica Matić Award
Tomislav Topić
Ivica Matić Award
Action Group of the Association of Bosnian Filmmakers for copyrights (Pjer Žalica, Jovan Marjanović, Elma Tataragić and Amar Nović)
CINEUROPA NAGRADA
"SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA"
Director: Ana Urushadze
CICAE NAGRADA
"SON OF SOFIA / O GIOS TIS SOFIAS"
Director: Elina Psykou
THE EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK - TALENT GRANT
"WHEN PIGS COME"
Director: Biljana Tutorov
SARAJEVO SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR EUROPAN FILM AWARDS 2017
"COPA-LOCA"
Director: Christos Massalas
BEST PACK & PITCH AWARD (TALENTS SARAJEVO PACK & PITCH)
"SIRIN"
Senad Šahmanović – invitation for participation in the co-production market CineLink
"PINKLER"
Patricia D'Intino
The postproduction of sound services in the amount of 4.000 EUR
BH FILM STUDENT PROGRAMME AWARD
Best B&H Student Film Award
"TO OUTLIVE A TURTLE / NADŽIVETI KORNJAČU"
Director: Katarina Živanović
Fakultet dramskih i filmskih umjetnosti Bijeljina
Special Jury Award
"CLEAN / ČISTOĆA"
Director: Neven Samardžić
Akademija scenskih umjetnosti Sarajevo
Special Mention
"WINTER SUN / ZIMSKO SUNCE"
Director: Pilar Palomero
Sarajevo Film Academy
Link: www.sff.ba