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\n\tSerbian filmmaker Stefan \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107\u2018s \u201cWinds, Talk to Me,\u201d an exploration of the mother-son relationship, won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film is inspired by \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107\u2019s own experiences, and stars members of his family. It centers on Stefan, who reunites with his family to celebrate his grandmother\u2019s birthday for the first time since his mother died. This homecoming, driven by Stefan\u2019s urge to complete a film about his mother as well as an attempt to make amends by rescuing a stray dog, will ignite an introspective journey.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe jury said \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 \u201ctakes a formally bold and inquisitive approach to his very personal subject, working with his collaborators to combine elements of fiction and documentary into a film of beguiling melancholy and delicate beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe best director award went to Serbian director Ivana Mladenovi\u0107 for \u201cSorella Di Clausura,\u201d a story about a woman from rural Romania who falls in love with a Balkan musician after seeing him on television. The jury said: \u201cThe punk spirit is never far away in this skilfully directed film, which flows like a Dostojevskean river, stacking failure on failure, to finally arrive at a romantic comedy, but without the romance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe best actress prize went to the actresses of \u201cFantasy,\u201d Sarah al Saleh, Alina Juhart, Mia Skrbinac and Mina Milovanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film follows best friends Mihrije, Sina and Jasna, who are in their early twenties. They live in Slovenia, and refuse to conform to the conservative system they live in. Their world is turned upside down when they meet Fantasy, a transgender woman.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe jury said: \u201cIn a film exploring the distances between how we understand ourselves and how others perceive us, our ensemble of talented actresses brought great charisma and authenticity to their roles.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe best actor award went to Andrija Kuzmanovi\u0107 for \u201cYugo Florida,\u201d which centers on Zoran, whose awkward, almost pointless life is turned upside down when his estranged and intolerable father is diagnosed with a terminal illness and Zoran commits himself to helping him through his final weeks.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe jury said he \u201cbrings depth and complexity to a performance of deceptive simplicity, as his character struggles to unlearn a lifetime of avoiding emotional closeness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAwards of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival<\/p>\n
\n\tCOMPETITION PROGRAM \u2013 FEATURE FILM
Jury: Sergei Loznitsa, president (director and writer, Ukraine), Dragan Mi\u0107anovi\u0107 (actor, Serbia), Emanuel P\u00e2rvu (director, writer, actor, Romania), Ena Sendijarevi\u0107 (director, writer, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands), and Tricia Tuttle (Berlin Film Festival director, U.S.\/U.K.)<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
WIND, TALK TO ME (VETRE, PRI\u010cAJ SA MNOM)
Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia
Director: Stefan \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107
Producers: Dragana Jovovi\u0107, Ognjen Glavoni\u0107, Stefan Ivan\u010di\u0107
Award in the amount of \u20ac16,000.
Jury statement: \u201cThe filmmaker behind our best film takes a formally bold and inquisitive approach to his very personal subject, working with his collaborators to combine elements of fiction and documentary into a film of beguiling melancholy and delicate beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Ivana Mladenovi\u0107, SORELLA DI CLAUSURA
Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain
Award in the amount of \u20ac10,000.
Jury statement: \u201cThe punk spirit is never far away in this skilfully directed film, which flows like a Dostojevskean river, stacking failure on failure, to finally arrive at a romantic comedy, but without the romance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS
FANTASY ensemble \u2013 Sarah al Saleh, Alina Juhart, Mia Skrbinac, Mina Milovanovi\u0107
Slovenia, North Macedonia
Award in the amount of \u20ac2,500.
Jury statement: \u201cIn a film exploring the distances between how we understand ourselves and how others perceive us, our ensemble of talented actresses brought great charisma and authenticity to their roles.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR
Andrija Kuzmanovi\u0107, YUGO FLORIDA
Serbia, Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Montenegro
Award in the amount of \u20ac2,500.
Jury statement: \u201cOur best actor brings depth and complexity to a performance of deceptive simplicity, as his character struggles to unlearn a lifetime of avoiding emotional closeness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tCOMPTETITION PROGRAM \u2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM
Jury: Blake Levin (producer, USA), C\u00edntia Gil (film curator, Portugal) and Veton Nurkollari (artistic director of DokuFest and film curator, Kosovo)<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
OUR TIME WILL COME (UNSERE ZEIT WIRD KOMMEN)
Austria
Director: Ivette L\u00f6cker
Award in the amount of \u20ac4,000.
Jury statement: \u201cThe Heart of Sarajevo award for best documentary feature goes to a film that combines the beauty and the challenges of creating togetherness, with the generosity and rigor of making films in the intimacy of lives being lived. It is a film that builds a cinematic time and space for the complexities of love and the politics of coexistence, valuing the richness that each person may bring to our common spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM
THE MAN\u2019S LAND (KACEBIS MITSA)
Georgia, Hungary
Director: Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani
Award in the amount of \u20ac2,000.
Jury statement: \u201cTo a film that brings forward and challenges a centuries old custom. With unobtrusive, yet close and intimate camera work, and with precise editing, we are presented a film that speaks volumes about injustice and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSPECIAL JURY AWARD
IN HELL WITH IVO
Bulgaria, United States
Director: Kristina Nikolova
Award in the amount of \u20ac2,500.
Jury statement: \u201c[The award is given] for the filmmaker\u2019s deft ability to let her iconoclast subject\u2019s charisma and talent erupt on screen, shaping a narrative of Ivo\u2019s performances that push audiences into discomfort with honesty, compassion, and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSPECIAL MENTION
I BELIEVE THE PORTRAIT SAVED ME (MUA BESOJ M\u00cb SHP\u00cbTOJ PORTRETI)
Kosovo, Netherlands
Director: Alban Muja
Jury statement: \u201c[The award is given] to a formally daring film that uses re-enactment to tell a story of survival during the war, as well as the power of art.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tCOMPETITION PROGRAM \u2013 SHORT FILM
Jury: Teresa Cavina (festival programmer and script doctor, Italy), Cem Demirer (cinematographer and director, Turkey) and Neboj\u0161a Slijep\u010devi\u0107 (director and writer, Croatia)<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM
WINTER IN MARCH (LUMI SAADAB MEID)
Armenia, Estonia, France, Belgium
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
Award in the amount of \u20ac2,500.
Jury statement: \u201cThe Heart of Sarajevo goes to the film done with exceptional precision and amazing creativity. It\u2019s an authentic story of inner conflict that comes from facing your country falling into the moral abyss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSPECIAL MENTION
ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG
Bulgaria
Director: Lili Koss
Jury statement: \u201cThe special mention goes to the playful film that is set against the backdrop of the Bulgarian rough 90s, where children, left to grow up by themselves, invent their own world. The narrative subtly emerges from witty smart and believable human interactions, directed with youthful energy and supported by vivid cinematography.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tCOMPETITION PROGRAM \u2013 STUDENT FILM
Jury: Miroslav Mandi\u0107 (director and writer, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Na\u0111a Petrovi\u0107 (writer, screenwriter and director, Serbia) and Yorgos Tsourgiannis (producer, Greece)<\/p>\n
\n\tHEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST STUDENT FILM
TARIK
Serbia
Director: Adem Tuti\u0107
Award in the amount of \u20ac1,000.
Jury statement: \u201cA teenage boy floats through the spaces that define his youth, thanks to a visual approach dominated by the fuzzy depth of field, supported by intense acting and crisp dialogue. It is not a dreamy levitation, but the hardship caused by toxic masculinity of his peers and his family, primarily by his sensitive soul. [The prize is given] for the deliberate aesthetics that employ remarkably sparse means and thus aptly convey important narrative issues, for the details that are thoroughly considered and subtly woven into the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSPECIAL AWARD FOR PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY
Jury: Anna Croneman (producer and CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, Sweden), Ivan Marinovi\u0107 (director, writer and producer, Montenegro) and Norika Sefa (director and writer, Kosovo)<\/p>\n
\n\tGOD WILL NOT HELP (BOG NE\u0106E POMO\u0106I)
Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France
Director: Hana Ju\u0161i\u0107
Award in the amount of \u20ac7,500.<\/p>\n
\n\tSPECIAL YOUTH PERSPECTIVES AWARD
Jury: Anja Joki\u0107 (youth policy specialist, Serbia), Er\u00e9ndira N\u00fa\u00f1ez Larios (producer, Mexico) and Milan Stojanovi\u0107 (producent, Serbia)<\/p>\n
\n\tDJ AHMET
North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia
Director: Georgi M. Unkovski
Award in the amount of \u20ac7,500.<\/p>\n
\n\tPARTNERS\u2019 AWARDS
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM CANDIDATE
Jury: Gregor Bo\u017ei\u010d (director, cinematographer, Slovenia), Kasia Karwan (film consultant, Poland) and Dominique Welinski (producer and film consultant, France)<\/p>\n
\n\tTHINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
Greece, United States
Director: Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis
The winner receives candidacy for the European Film Academy\u2019s Best Short Film Award.<\/p>\n
\n\tCICAE AWARD
Jury: Alexander Omar Lang (film curator and programmer, Germany), Sylvie Da Rocha (artistic director, Cinema Zola, Portugal) and Diego Ginartes Rodr\u00edguez (film curator, programmer and cultural producer, Spain)<\/p>\n
\n\tWHITE SNAIL
Austria, Germany
Director: Elsa Kresmer, Levin Peter<\/p>\n
\n\tCINEUROPA PRIZE
Jury: Srdjan Kurpjel (composer and sound editor, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Alfonso Rivera (film journalist and critic, Spain)<\/p>\n
\n\tDJ AHMET
North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia
Director: Georgi M. Unkovski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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