Everybody in Our Family, sophomore feature by
Radu Jude, after
The Happiest Girl in the World, won the
Heart of Sarajevo prize at the end of the nine-day Sarajevo festival 2012 and 16,000 € provided by Council of Europe. Three other prizes were received by Romanian directors: the
Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary Film for
Turn of the Lights directed by Ivana Mladenovic, the
Special Jury Mention for Short Film Daddy Rulz by Radu Potcoava and last but not least a
Work in Progress Award – Special Mention for
Totonel by Alexander Nanau.
Uliks Fehmiu won the
Best Actor Award for his performance in the Serbian movie
Redemption Street.
Marija Pikic won the
Best Actress Award for her role in Bosnia΄s
Aida Begic΄s movie
Children of Sarajevo. The film also awarded by a two-member jury
Cineuropa Award presented by the Cineuropa Portal. The Turkish-Greek coproduction
Beyond the Hill by
Emin Alper won the
Special Jury Award, provided by Agnes B. Croatian prominent film producer,
Branko Lustig received the
Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at this year΄s Sarajevo Film Festival.
Cinelink Awards
CineLink, the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, announced its awards for the best projects pitched in the southeastern Europe. This year, a strong line up of 17 projects was chosen out of 80 submissions.
Greek writer-director
Syllas Tzoumerkas whose
Homeland competed in the Venice International Critics’ Week in 2010, won the
Eurimages Coproduction Development Award and
€30,000 for a project co-written by
Youla Boudali and produced by
Maria Drandaki by the title
A Blast. Alen Drljevic won the
CNC Award and €10000 for Men Don΄t Cry, while the
Arte International Relations CineLink award in the amount of
€6,000 went to
The Good Wife directing debut of
Mirjana Karanovic.
CineLink Excellence Award was given to Quiet People by
Ognjen Svilicic and the
EAVE Scholarship was awarded to Turkey΄s Ahu Ozturk for
Dust Cloth. In addition, one Serbian Cinelink project has been awarded with
Restart Award in amount of 20.000 Euro:
Barbarians, by
Ivan Ikic.
To keep track of all the announcements and the awards please follow
the official website of
Sarajevo Film Festival.