FESTIVALS: Mustang Wins Sarajevo Film Festival

24-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Mustang Wins Sarajevo Film Festival

By Iulia Blaga

Mustang by Deniz Gamze Erguven

SARAJEVO: Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang was awarded Best Film in the feature film competition of the 21th Sarajevo Film Festival, running from 14 to 22 August 2015. The festival gave Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Awards to Atom Egoyan and Benicio Del Toro.

Ten films competed in the feature film competition, 10 in the short film competition and 23 in the documentary competition. The feature film competition jury was composed of Călin Peter Netzer (president), Diana Bustamante, Zrinka Cvitešić, Mike Downey and Maja Miloš. The short film competition jury included Marion Döring, Una Gunjak and Alice Kharoubi, and the documentary jury was composed of Boro Kontić, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Anka Schmid.

Other sections were In Focus, Open Air, Kinoscope, Shorts, Lasko Summer Nights, Children's Programme, Teenaena. The festival paid tribute to Brillante Mendoza and Atom Egoyan, and also celebrated the Human Rights Day on 18 August 2015.

The industry section gathered many important players of the Southeast European film industry and hosted the Regional European Film Forum organised by the European Commission along with the traditional CineLink Co-production Market and Work in Progress, as well as Docu Rough Cut Boutique.

Dagur Kari's Virgin Mountain closed the festival.

OFFICIAL AWARDS

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film
In the amount of 16,000 EUR provided by Council of Europe

Mustang (Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar)
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Produced by BAM Films
Coproduced by: CG Cinema, Vistamar Filmproduktion, Uhland Film, Kinology Production

Special Jury Prize
In the amount of 10,000 EUR provided by Agnes B.

Son of Saul / Saul Fia (Hungary)
Directed by László Nemes
Produced by Laokoon Filmgroup
Supported by the Hungarian National Film Fund

Special Jury Mention

Chevalier (Greece)
Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
In the amount of 2,500 EUR

Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, Ilayda Akdoğan (Mustang)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
In the amount of 2,500 EUR

Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, Sakis Rouvás (Chevalier)

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film

A Matter of Will / Bisena Obala (Montenegro)
Directed by Dušan Kasalica

Special Jury Mention

Damaged Goods / Kalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Nermin Hamzagić

Special Jury Mention

Tuesday / Sali (Turkey, France)
Directed by Ziya Demirel

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary
In the amount of 3,000 EUR provided by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Toto and His Sisters / Toto si surorile lui (Romania)
Directed by Alexander Nanau
Produced by HBO Europe
Coproduced by Strada Film, Alexander Nanau Production

Special Jury Prize
In the amount of 2,500 EUR provided by Al Jazeera Balkans

Tititá (Hungary)
Directed by Tamás Almási

Special Jury Mention

Flotel Europa (Denmark, Serbia)
Directed by Vladimir Tomić

Human Rights Award
In the amount of 3,000 EUR granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

One Day in Sarajevo / Jedan dan u Sarajevu (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria)
Directed by Jasmila Žbanić
Produced by Deblokada Produkcija

Honorary Heart of Sarajevo
Atom Egoyan and Benicio Del Toro

Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award 2015
Ran Huang

CINELINK AWARDS

Eurimages Coproduction Development Award
In the amount of 20,000 EUR

A Ballad (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Aida Begić
Produced by Adis Đapo through Film House Sarajevo

ARTE International Relations Cinelink Award
In the amount of 6,000 EUR

Hamarat Apartment (Turkey)
Directed by Huseyin Karabey
Produced by Su Baloglu through ASI Film

Macedonian Film Agency Cinelink Award
In the amount of 10,000 EUR

The Son (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Ines Tanović
Produced by Alem Babić through Dokument Sarajevo

Living Pictures Service Cinelink Award
In the amount of 10,000 EUR

Soldiers (Romania)
Directed by Ivana Mladenović
Produced by Ada Solomon through Hi Film Productions

Synchro Film Vienna Cinelink Award

A Ballad
Hamarat Apartment
The Son

In the amount of 2,500 EUR each

EAVE Scholarship
Alem Babić

WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS

Post Republic Award
Postproduction services in the amount of 50,000 EUR

The Fixer (Romania, Franta)
Directed by Adrian Sitaru
Produced by Anamaria Antoci through 4Proof Film Production
Coproduced by Petit Film

Restart Award
In the amount of 20,000 EUR

Godless (Bulgaria, France)
Directed by Ralitza Petrova
Produced by Rossitsa Valkanova through Klas Films
Coproduced by Alcatraz Films

Young Audience Award

Next to Me (Serbia)
Directed by Stevan Filipović

PARTNERS AWARDS

HT Eronet Audience Award for Best Feature Film

Mustang

HT Eronet Audience Award for Best Documentary

Chasing a Dream (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia)
Directed by Mladen Mitrović
Produced by Fabrika snova
Coproduced by Balkan Art Centar, Factum

Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina 'Ivica Matić' Award

Mirsad Purivatra and Zoran Galićfor their contribution to Bosnia and Herzegovina cinema

Cineuropa Prize

Superworld (Austria)
Directed by Karl Markovics

CICAE Award

The High Sun (Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia)
Directed by Dalibor Matanić
Produced by Kinorama
Coproduced by Gustav film, SEE Film Pro
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre