Acting awards split between casts of Mustang and Chevalier, Son Of Saul wins Special Jury Prize.
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The 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) wrapped tonight with Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang winning the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film.
The film also received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress, which went to its whole female cast: Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, and Ilayda Akdoğan.
László Nemes picked up the Special Jury Prize for Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier won a Special Jury Mention, and its male ensemble, consisting of Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, and Sakis Rouvás received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary went to Alexander Nanau’s Toto And His Sisters, while the same award in the short film competition went to A Matter Of Will by Montenegro’s Dušan Kasalica.
CineLink awards saw A Ballad by director Aida Begić and producer Adis Djapo win the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, while the project The Son by director Ines Tanović and producer Alem Babić received the Macedonian Film Agency Award, and EAVE Scholarship for the latter.
In the Works in Progress selection, the Post Republic Award went to The Fixer by director Adrian Sitaru and producer Anamaria Antoci, and director Ralitza Petrova and producer Rossitsa Valkanova got the Restart Award for Godless.
OFFICIAL AWARDS
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM:
MUSTANG
Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Financial Award, in the amount of 16,000 €, is provided by Council of Europe
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE:
SON OF SAUL / SAUL FIA
Hungary
Director: László Nemes
Financial Award, in the amount of 10,000 €, is provided by Agnes B.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION:
CHEVALIER
Greece
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS:
Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, Ilayda Akdoğan (Mustang / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar)
Financial award in the amount of 2,500 €
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR:
Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, Sakis Rouvás (Chevalier / Greece)
Financial award in the amount of 2,500 €
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM:
A MATTER OF WILL / BISERNA OBALA
Montenegro
Director: Dušan Kasalica
SPECIAL JURY MENTION:
DAMAGED GOODS / KALO
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Nermin Hamzagić
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
TUESDAY / SALI
Turkey, France
Director: Ziya Demirel
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM:
TOTO AND HIS SISTERS / TOTO ŞI SURORILE LUI
Romania
Director: Alexander Nanau
Financial award, in the amount of 3,000 €, is provided by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR COMPETITION PROGRAMME DOCUMENTARY FILM:
TITITÁ
Hungary
Director: Tamás Almási
Financial Award, in the amount of 2,500 €, is provided by Al Jazeera Balkans.
SPECIAL JURY MENTION:
FLOTEL EUROPA
Denmark, Serbia
Director: Vladimir Tomić
HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD:
ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO / JEDAN DAN U SARAJEVU
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria
Director: Jasmila Žbanić
Award for the best film of the Competition Programme - Documentary Film dealing with the subject of human rights. Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD
NEXT TO ME / PORED MENE
Serbia
Stevan Filipović
CINELINK AWARDS
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD:
A BALLAD (Director: Aida Begić / Producer: Adis Djapo)
20,000 €
ARTE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CINELINK AWARD:
HAMARAT APARTMENT (Huseyin Karabey / Su Baloglu)
6,000 €
MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY CINELINK AWARD:
THE SON (Ines Tanović / Alem Babić)
10,000 €
LIVING PICTURES SERVICE CINELINK AWARD:
SOLDIERS (Ivana Mladenović / Ada Solomon)
in kind support up to 10,000 €
SYNCHRO FILM VIENNA CINELINK AWARD:
A BALLAD (Aida Begić / Adis Đapo)
HAMARAT APARTMENT (Huseyin Karabey / Su Baloglu)
THE SON (Ines Tanović / Alem Babić)
in kind support up to 2,500 € each
EAVE SCHOLARSHIP:
Alem Babić
WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS
POST REPUBLIC AWARD:
THE FIXER (Adrian Sitaru / Anamaria Antoci)
in kind post production services worth 50.000 €
RESTART AWARD:
GODLESS (Ralitza Petrova / Rossitsa Valkanova)
in kind support worth 20.000 €
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