15th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL awards

OFFICIAL AWARDS

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM

Jury:

President of the Jury: MIRJANA KARANOVIĆ, Actress, Serbia

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)

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)

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

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)

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Jury:

President of the Jury: ZIJAH GAFIĆ, Photographer, B&H

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

KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION

The winner of this year’s scholarship is Juanita Wilson, which was selected and introduced to audiences in Sarajevo by the curator of the Foundation Stellan Skarsgard.

CINELINK AWARDS

Jury: Georges Goldenstern, Cedomir Kolar, Behrooz Hashemian, Jacqueline Ada, Ulf Sigvardson, Annamaria Lodato, 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:

Jury: Rebekka Garrido, Laurent Danielou, Bernd Buder

THE POST REPUBLIC AWARD

If I Want to Whistle I Whistle by Florin Serban

PARTNER AWARDS

THE NOMINATION OF THE SARAJEVO CANDIDATE FOR THE 2009 EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY AWARD   

Jury: Corneliu Porumboiu, Dylan Leiner, Eva Vezer

THE HERD

Director: Ken Wardrop (IIreland)

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

CICAE

Žiri: Erdmann Lange, Turi Edit Csenkine, Giovanni Petricciani

EASTERN PLAYS

Director: Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria)

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 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)

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.

HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD

SEVDAH

Director: Marina Andree (Croatia, B&H)

SARAJEVO CITY OF FILM AWARDS

The Atlantic Group Award

Liberation in 26 Pictures

Director: Ivan Ramljak, Marko Škobalj