On Saturday evening, the 3rd edition of LET’S CEE Film Festival came to an end, awarding the winning films and filmmakers of the Feature Film Competition, the Documentary Film Competition and it΄s Short Film Competition.

The big winner of the Feature Film Competition’s Urania Award was the international co-production I Won’t Come Back, by Estonian director Ilmar Raag. The Serbian/German/F.Y.R.O.M co-production Monument to Michael Jackson by Darko Lungulov received an honorable mention, along with Un Certain Regard of Cannes FF 2014, White Dog by Kornel Mundruczo.

On the Documentary Film Competition, the Russian/German/Czech Pipeline by Vitaly Mansky got the main award, while Tatjana Bozic’s Happily Ever After from Croatia and Latvian Pelican in the Desert by Viesturs Kairiss both went away with honorable mentions. 

LET’S CEE Film Festival’s main prize in the category Best Short Film went to Ina Gunjak’s The Chicken, a Croatian/German co-production. 

The 3rd LET΄S CEE Film Festival took place in Vienna, lasting for 9 days. Not only were presented legendary arthouse classics and top festival hits, but imaginative short films and documentaries, dramas and love stories as well as thrillers and crazy comedies. All in all there were screened about 80 productions from Central and Eastern Europe this year. 

The festival presented, again, various categories and retrospectives, including a number of Balkan films and co-production.

Hush by Lukas Nola, Croatia, 2013

Monument To Michael Jackson by Darko Lungulov, Serbi, German, Croatia, F.Y.R.O.M, 2013

Come to my Voice by Huseyin Karabey, Turkey, France, Germany, 2014

Roxanne by Valentin Hotea, Romania, 2013

Scandal by Elton Baxhaku & Eriona Cami, Albania, 2014

Happily Ever After by Tatjana Bozic, Croatia/Netherlands, 2014

Velvet Terrorists by Pavol Pekarcik, Ivan Ostrochovsky & Peter Kerekes, Slovakia, Czech Republi, Croatia, 2013

Project Cancer by Damjan Kozole, Slovenia, 2013

No Man΄s Land by Danis Tanovic, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia, UK, Italy, Belgium, France, 2001

Kukumi by Isa Qosja, Kosovo*, 2005

Before The Rain by Milcho Manchevski, F.Y.R.O.M/France/UK, 1994

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2005

Bridges of Sarajevo by Kamen Kalev, Vladimir Perisic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Angela Schanelec, Cristi Puiu, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergei Loznitsa, Marc Recha, Aida Begic, Teresa Villaverde, Vincenzo Marra, Isild Le Besco, Ursula Meier, France, Bosnia Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria, 2014 

Amsterdam Express by Fatmir Koci, UK, Albania, Netherlands, Germany, 2014

Karnaval by Can Kilcioglou, Turkey, 2013

Watchower by Pelin Esmer, Turkey, France, Germany, 2012

Don΄t Look Back my Son by Branko Bauer, Yugoslavia, 1956

The Japanese Dog by Tudor Christian Jurgiu, Romania, 2013

The Disobedient by Mina Djukic, Serbia, 2014

The Tree by Sonja Prosenc, Slovenia, 2014

I am an Old Communist Hag by Stere Gulea, Romania, 2013