Awards of the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival

Philippe Bober, producer, founder of Coproduction Officea

Christof Papousek, co-owner of Constantin Film-Holding, CFO and Managing Partner of Cineplexx International 

Alexader Payne, director, screenwriter, producer

Meg Ryan, actress

Paul Schrader, director, screenwriter (Honorary Heart of Sarajevo recipient in 2018.)

Elia Suleiman, director

John Turturro, actor, screenwriter, director

 

Jury:
Paul Schrader, president of the Jury (director, screenwriter, USA)

Sebastian Cavazza (actor, Slovenia)

Una Gunjak (director, screewriter, editor, Bosina and Herzegovina)

Juho Kuosmanen (director, screenwriter, Finland)

Noomi Rapace (actress, producer, Sweden)

 

HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM 

THREE KILOMETERS TO THE END OF THE WORLD

Romania

Director: Emanuel Pârvu

Producer: Miruna Berecsu

The monetary prize in the amount of €16,000 is co-funded by the Tourism Association of Canton Sarajevo.

 

Yorgos Zois, ARCADIA

Greece, Bulgria, USA

The monetary prize in the amount of €10,000 is sponsored by the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with UNESCO.

 

Anab Ahmed Ibrahim, VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE

Austria, France, Germany, Somalia

Monetary prize in the amount of €2,500.

 

HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR 

Doru Bem, HOLY WEEK

Romania, Switzerland

Monetary prize in the amount of €2,500.

 

Mandy Chang (founder and Creative Director of Undeniable, Fremantle's label, USA)

Marek Hovorka (founder and Director of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic)

Wang Xiaoshuai  (director, writer and producer, China)

 

A PICTURE TO REMEMBER

Ukraine, France, Germany

Director: Olga Chernykh

The monetary prize in the amount of €4,000 is sponsored by the Government of Switzerland.

 

LIKE A SICK YELLOW 

Kosovo*

Director: Norika Sefa

Monetary prize in the amount of €2,000.

 

HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD 

YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME 

Hungary, Switzerland

Director: Anna Rubi

The Human Rights Award is presented for the best film from the Competition Programme - Documentary Film that addresses human rights issues. The monetary prize in the amount of €3,000 is sponsored by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

 

WHAT WE ASK OF A STATUE IS THAT IT DOESN'T MOVE 

Greece, France

Director: Daphné Hérétakis

Monetary prize in the amount of €2,500.

 

Anamaria Antoci (producer, Romunia)

Flora Anna Buda (director, Hungary)

Burak Çevik (director, producer, Türkiye)

 

ABSENT

Türkiye 

Director: Cem Demirer

Qualifies the winning film for consideration for the Academy Award® for Best Short Film.

Monetary prize in the amount of €2,500.

 

TAKO TSUBO

Austria, Germany

Director: Eva Pedroza, Fanny Sorgo

 

Anna Gyimesi (director, Hungary)

Delphine Jeanneret (dilm curator and lecturer, Film Department of the Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland)

Ivan Ramljak (director, independent curator and a short film selector for the Rotterdam Film Festival, Croatia)

 

THE SMELL OF FRESH PAINT 

Serbia

Director: Nađa Petrović

The monetary prize in the amount of €1,000 is sponsored by the Regional Cooperation Council.

 

Dörte Schneider Garcia (editor, assistant director, and green consultant (Film and TV), Germany)

Julian Ross (film programmer, researcher, and writer, the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Misan Sagay  (screenwriter, United Kingdom)

 

THE SKY ABOVE ZENICA 

Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Director: Zlatko Pranjić, Nanna Frank Møller

Award in the amount of €5,000 sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme in BiH.

 

Dörte Schneider Garcia (editor, assistant director, and green consultant (Film and TV), Germany)

Julian Ross (film programmer, researcher, and writer, the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Misan Sagay  (screenwriter, United Kingdom)

 

CENT'ANNI

Slovenia, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Austria

Director: Maja Doroteja Prelog

The monetary prize in the amount of €7,500 is sponsored by Mastercard.

 

 

List of Heart of Sarajevo Awards for TV Series HERE 

 

List of Partners' Awards HERE

 

List of 22nd CineLink Industry Days Awards HERE

* 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