Another debut feature, Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things / Meda sau partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor by the Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu, was awarded best director and also best actor for Șerban Pavlu.
John Cleese and Oliver Stone received the Honourary Heart of Sarajevo awards.
See the full list of winners below:
OFFICIAL AWARDS
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film:
Scary Mother / Sashishi deda (Georgia)
Director: Ana Urushadze
Produced by Studio Artizm
Coproduced by Gemini
Supported by the Georgian National Film Center
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director:
Emanuel Pârvu
for Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things / Meda sau partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor (Romania)
Produced by FAMart Productions
Coproduced by DaKINO Productions, Ceramus Film
Special Jury Mention:
Directions / Posoki (Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia)
Directed by Stephan Komandarev
Produced by Argo Film
Coproduced by Aktis Film Production, Sector Film
Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Bulgarian National Television, the German Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), the Macedonian Film Agency and Eurimages
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress:
Ornela Kapetani for Daybreak / Dita zë fill (Albania, Greece)
Directed by Gentian Koçi
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor:
Şerban Pavlu for Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things / Meda sau partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor (Romania)
Directed by Emanuel Pârvu
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film:
Into the Blue / U plavetnilo (Croatia, Slovenia)
Directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Special Jury Mention:
Soa (Montenegro)
Directed by Dušan Kasalica
and
Copa-Loca (Greece)
Directed by Christos Massalas
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – STUDENT FILM
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Student Film:
Clean / Cistoca (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Neven Samardžić
Special Jury Mention:
Ljubljana – Munchen 15:27 / Ljubljana – Munich 15:27 (Slovenia)
Directed by Katarina Morano
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary:
City of the Sun / Mzis qalaqi (Georgia, USA, Qatar, Netherlands)
Directed by Rati Oneli
Special Jury Prize:
Kinders (Austria)
Directed by Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi
Special Jury Mention:
Home / Dom (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Zdenko Jurilj
Human Rights Award:
Mr. Gay Syria (Turkey, France, Germany)
Directed by Ayse Toprak
Honorary Heart of Sarajevo:
John Cleese
Oliver Stone
CINELINK AWARDS:
CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS:
Eurimages Coproduction Development Award:
Half Sister (Slovenia)
Directed by Damjan Kozole
Produced by Vertigo
Macedonian Film Agency CineLink Award:
Holy Emy (Greece)
Directed by Araceli Lemos
Produced by StudioBauhaus
ARTE International Relations CineLink Award:
Cat in the Wall (Bulgaria)
Directed by Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Produced by Activist38
Special Mention:
The Great Tram Robbery (Serbia)
Directed by Slobodan Šijan
Produced by Gargantua Films
MDM EAVE Scholarship:
Konstantinos Vassilaros / Holy Emy
WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS:
TRT AWARD:
Honeyland (Macedonia)
Directed by Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska
Produced by Apollo Media, Trice Films
Post Republic Award:
The Day after I’m Gone (Israel)
Directed by Nimrod Eldar
Restart Award:
What Comes Around (Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar)
Directed by Reem Saleh
CineLink Drama Award:
Film Center Serbia CineLink Drama Award:
All Panters Are Pink / Svi panteri su pinl (Germany, Serbia)
Created by Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović
Directed by TBC
Produced by Unafilm, Art & Popcorn
Special Mention:
Glycerin / Glicerin (Serbia)
Created by Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić
Directed by Miloš Pušić
Produced by Altertise
23rd SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL PARTNER'S AWARDS:
AWARDS OF ASSOCIATION OF BOSNIAN FILMMAKERS
Ivica Matić Award:
Redžinald Šimek
Ivica Matić Award:
Tomislav Topić
Ivica Matić Award:
Action Group of the Association of Bosnian Filmmakers for copyrights (Pjer Žalica, Jovan Marjanović, Elma Tataragić and Amar Nović)
Cineuropa Award:
Scary Mother (Georgia)
Directed by Ana Urushadze
CICAE Award:
Son of Sofia / O gios tis Sofias (Greece, France, Bulgaria), Regional premiere
Directed by Elina Psykou
Produced by Heretic
Coproduced by KinoElektron (France), Chouchkov Brothers
Supported by Eurimages, the Greek Film Centre, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Creative Europe, ERT, Berlinale Residency
The European Documentary Network – Talent Grant:
When Pigs Come
Directed by Biljana Tutorov
Sarajevo Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2017:
Copa-loca
Directed by Christos Massalas
Best Pack & Pitch Award (Talent Sarajevo Pack &Pitch):
Sirin
Senad Šahmanović – invitation for the co-production market CineLink
Pinkler
Patricia D'Intino - postproduction of sound services in the amount of 4,000 EUR (Chelia Studio)
BH Film Student Programme Awards:
Best B&H Student Film Award:
To Outlive a Turtle / Nadziveti kornjacu
Directed by Katarina Živanović
Fakultet dramskih i filmskih umjetnosti Bijeljina
Special Jury Award:
Clean / Cistoca
Directed by Neven Samardžić
Akademija scenskih umjetnosti Sarajevo
Special Mention:
Winter Sun / Zimsko sunce
Directed by Pilar Palomero
Sarajevo Film Academy
