Emir Hadzihafisbegovic with the awards for These Are The Rules
The Croatian production also won a thrid award, the
Golden Mimoza for Best Actor, for the protagonist
Emir Hadzihafisbegovic΄s performance, by “playing an impressive and extremely unusual character, carrying by himself the emotional story”, in the Jury΄s words.
The
Golden Mimoza for Best Director, on the other hand, wen to
Ivona Juka and her her feature debut film
You Carry Me (Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia/Montenegro, 2015). "Juka managed to reconcile a very complicated film structure with a multitude of characters and creative use of filmic time”. The Croatian filmmaker thanked the Jury for this award with special meaning to her, due to the fact that her film is a Montenegrin co-production.
Golden Mimoza for Best Director, Ivona Juka
The
Award of the Živko Nikolic Foundation was given to
Gorcilo by
Milan Karadzic (Montenegro/Serbia, 2015).
Before the awards announcement, the president of the Jury, French director Yves Boisset referred to the unanimity of the Jury on the awarded films and to the importance of the festival as a whole for the promotion of the New Balkan cinema.