Danis Tanović’s My Late Summer has won the Golden Apple Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 21st Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York City. Ado Hasanović’s My Father’s Diaries won both the Golden Apple Jury Award for Best Documentary Film, and the Audience Award.

On the win for My Late Summer, the jurors comprised of filmmaker Bojan Bodružić, film and media scholar Olivera Jokić, and Bosnian diaspora conference organizer Ida Sefer, said, “A beautiful complex production that draws on a sophisticated screenplay, My Late Summer shows us how rich cinematic stories can be made again from the material of ordinary human lives in the region. Anchored by two excellent lead performances and an entire cast of remarkable supporting actors, My Late Summer is a work that reminds us that film is an art form that registers vividly how we feel about the world that offers many unexpected plot twists.”

On the win for My Father’s Diaries, the jury said, “By a unanimous decision of the jury, the award for the best documentary film goes to My Father’s Diaries, a deeply moving and unsentimental work that considers what it means to transform into historical documentation the materials that find themselves in front of the filmmaker.”

Student filmmaker Isidora Ratković’s Good Luck, Sara captured the Golden Apple Jury Award for Best Short Narrative Film, and Best Acting Performance was awarded to Dina Mušanović for her role in the film.

Jury Special Mentions went to Gym by Srđan Vuletić and All Because of a Bull, a student film directed by Emir Solaković.

Additionally, producer Amra Bakšić Čamo was awarded a special Golden Apple for Outstanding Contributions to Bosnian-Herzegovinian Cinema.